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Sesame Street Resources for Families Coping After Natural Disasters

Andrea Cody · 12/5/181:06 PM

In the aftermath of recent hurricanes and wildfires, the Sesame Street in Communities team wanted to reach out to provide information on our available resources to help families cope in the aftermath of natural disasters, and other traumatic experiences. Bilingual videos, articles, printables and more, are all available for free on our website at www.sesamestreetincommunities.org . Here are the links to a few topic pages that may be most useful to you as you work with families in the...

Summit

Christine Cissy White · 11/28/189:34 AM

Note from Deb: Please join Massachusetts Essentials for Childhood Summit as we launch our second phase with a new five-year round of CDC funding. The Summit will be an interactive day designed to get your input into strategies to reach our new goals to promote health equity, community social connection and family economic self-sufficiency. We will be seeking your feedback on a tool to promote municipal resources that have been proven to enhance family well being in communities, and a video...

Prevalence of Adverse Childhood Experiences From the 2011-2014 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System in 23 States (www.jamanetwork.com) & Note

Christine Cissy White · 11/28/189:29 AM

Cissy's note: Melissa Merrick, PhD (pictured above), is a Senior Epidemiologist with the Surveillance Branch in the Division of Violence Prevention at CDC’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. She will be the keynote speaker at the Massachusetts Essentials for Childhood summit and share about new ACEs data (see below) about which populations have the highest levels of ACEs on average. An except from this article published on the JAMA Network can be found below. Please follow...

Essentials for Childhood Award Recipients Announced (www.cdc.gov)

Christine Cissy White · 9/11/187:17 AM

Cissy's note: In case you haven't seen @Deb Mutschler's email yet, let me share a line from it here. Deb wrote: "Dear current and former Essentials Leadership and Collective Impact Teams: Some of you have heard what is now official. Massachusetts has been funded for Phase II of Essentials for Childhood!" This is fantastic news! Please find the complete and official CDC announcement below:

Essentials for Childhood Framework

Emerald Montgomery · 6/27/181:22 PM

From the CDC’s Injury Prevention & Control, Division of Violence Prevention: "Safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments are essential to prevent child abuse and neglect and to assure all children reach their full potential. The Essentials for Childhood Framework proposes strategies communities can consider to promote relationships and environments that help children grow up to be healthy and productive citizens so that they, in turn, can build stronger and safer families and...

Essentials for Childhood Survey Link

Deb Mutschler · 5/22/1811:09 AM

Are you a parent or a caretaker of a child under 5? If so, consider taking our short and anonymous survey to help us better understand your parenting experiences! Find the survey here.

How to Design Cities for Children (www.citylab.com)

Christine Cissy White · 5/22/1811:03 AM

Article by Mimi Kirk. Read more.

"They Know My Name": Parents Help Make a Collective Impact

Anndee Hochman · 2/21/1810:50 AM

Kimberlee Coronado recalls listening to a presentation of statewide data on children, poverty and trauma, and feeling acutely aware of the survey’s missing piece. It was a meeting on trauma-informed care; around the table were social service providers and representatives of local and county agencies. Coronado felt her anger rising. “I said, ‘What’s not even on your radar are kids with disabilities; you’re missing a whole category of kids who experience daily trauma,’” she recalls. Coronado...

Adverse childhood experiences in the news: Successes and opportunities in coverage of childhood trauma (www.bmsg.org)

Christine Cissy White · 2/21/1810:39 AM

Please find excerpts from a piece published in Issue 24 of the Berkeley Media Studies Group about where and how ACEs are covered in the news. It was published a few months ago but I missed it and am thankful it was shared with me last week. and Click here to read full-length version and for a downloadable pdf.

What does it mean to design communities for children?

Deb Mutschler · 2/9/183:15 PM

At Massachusetts Essentials for Childhood we have been thinking a lot about how to promote social connectedness in communities in ways that support families and children. This article offers ways to think about public space and opportunities for play as a key element in creating opportunities for those connections. ...

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