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May is Foster Care Awareness Month

Key Facts and Statistics from Childwelfare.gov Include these key points in your messaging to demonstrate the important role relative and kinship caregivers play in supporting family connections that are essential to a child’s health and well-being. There are over 407,000 children and youth in foster care , and 34 percent were placed with relatives or kin. The term kin encompasses both relatives (those related by blood or marriage) and fictive kin (those who are unrelated but have such a...

HBI Team Meeting 4.27.22

Healthy Blue Initiative Team Agenda April 27, 2022. 4:00-5:00 p.m. Participants: Zyanta, Kristy Blackwell, Carra Osborne, Kelly Purcell, Carey Sipp Notetaker: Kelly Purcell Check ins/Celebrations Trainings Scheduled Collaborative Screening 4/28/22 Items to Discuss/Updates: Kelly - DSS upcoming trainings - need for brainstorming plan to support trainings HBI Training Document Presentations Tracker/Healthy Blue Site - Please continue to add to the page and presentations tracker Amy/Kristy -...

Resiliency Initiatives Come Together to Create Awareness about ACEs and Resources

Brunswick, New Hanover, and Pender County resiliency initiative leaders Cape Fear Collection and came together to show a screening of the film Resilience and collectively share about efforts being done to prevent and heal ACEs at an individual and systems level as well as data to demonstrated the need for these efforts and task forces. J'vanete Skiba shared about the Realms of ACEs and their impacts as it relates to the film as well as the impacts on individuals in our community. Nicholas...

Agenda and Meeting notes from 4/13/22

The Healthy Blue Initiative Leadership Team was joined by a young man who was recently adopted to share his insights about learning resiliency skills and how we can reach more youth in foster care and youth in high schools. HBI Team Meeting Date: 4/13/22 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. Attendees: Zyante, Carey, Amy, Kelly Purcell, Kristy Blackwell Goals: Discussing/creating plan for paying CRM trainers in HBI counties Explain how to input presentations in presentations tracker Presentations Tracker Provide...

January 19, 2022 Meeting Agenda

Healthy Blue Initiative Team Agenda January 19, 2022 4:30-5:30 p.m. Check ins Items to Discuss: -Discuss long range goals/plans Healthy Blue Initiative Long Range Goals to Discuss Meeting with State DSS: Tuesday, January 25 at 4:00 Ask how we can measure success? What would success look like to you? Imagine if you could retain folks? Benefits? How many foster youths are moved/displaced from one foster home to another due to a youth's trauma response and/or behavior annually? Please share...

Healthy Blue Foster Care Initiative Report Correspondence April 6, 2022

Hello Naimah - I hope this email finds you well, and that what I'm sharing will be a help to you as you prepare information for the Bids process. I am hoping we have more information for you in the coming days. For now, though, as I said in the prior email, we don't have outcomes data per se. There's not a metric showing that we've increased school attendance, prevented expulsions, or that we've reduced visits to the Emergency Room in the six counties where we are doing the work. We do have...

Healthy Blue Foster Care Initiative Report April 5, 2022

Hello Naimah - Just wanted to let you know that I am on your report for you to have by tomorrow afternoon. We don't have outcomes as in, "expulsions decreased by XYZ," or "hospital visits decreased by xyz" - as right now we are working on establishing relationships or deepening with Department of Social Services workers in the counties establishing or deepening relationships with Guardian ad Litem volunteers establishing or deepening relationships with SAYSO representatives establishing or...

North Carolina initiatives featured on today's CTIPP CAN Call. Join us 2 p.m. - 3:30

We invite you to join this month's CTIPP CAN call, which we've mentioned during the Building the Movement workshops . We'll discuss how multi-sector coalitions can address trauma and promote resilience - we hope to see you there! CTIPP CAN: Wednesday, March 16, 2022 from 2:00-3:30 p.m. ET / 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. PT https://us02web.zoom.us/j/742183645 Meeting ID: 742 183 645 +19292056099,,742183645# US (New York) Q&A session after presentations Our featured guests include the Winer Family...

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