Use these novesl to teach learning from loss and overcoming adversity to your middle schoolers and high school freshmen. [For more of this story by Robert Ward, go to https://www.edutopia.org/article/young-adult-novels-teach-growth-mindset-robert-ward?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow]
Contents include: Strengthen Economic Supports for Families Change social Norms to Support Parents and Positive Parenting Provide Quality Care and Education Early in Life Enhance Parenting Skills to Promote Healthy Child Development Intervene to Lessen Harms and Prevent Future Risks Sector Involvement Monitoring and Evalution Full document: https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/can-prevention-technical-package.pdf
I t’s easy to see why collective impact —the commitment of a group of important cross-sector actors to a common agenda for solving a specific social problem—caught fire in 2010. During an economic downturn, when few new resources were available, a voice said there was a way to do more with what we already had. The concept offered hope for achieving results at the scale we desired, even though we were feeling constrained. And thank goodness. Collective impact both validated work that had been...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and its partners released a website that provides first-of-its-kind, neighborhood-level health data for the 500 largest US cities [PDF-269KB]. The 500 Cities project provides data on 5 risk behaviors, 13 health outcomes, and 9 prevention practices for the most common, costly, and preventable chronic diseases. Health professionals can view data by city or census tract, explore the interactive map , get map books for individual cities, and...
Award Information Funding Mechanism: Grant Anticipated Total Available Funding: $2,500,000 Anticipated Number of Awards: Up to 2 awards Anticipated Award Amount: Up to $1,000,000 per year Length of Project: Up to 5 years Cost Sharing/Match Required?: No Eligibility: Eligible applicants are local municipalities (e.g., counties, cities, and local governments) in partnership with community-based organizations that have faced civil unrest within the past 24 months from the posting of this FOA.
Before Claire Ranit spoke to her local Rotary Club about ACEs science, she needed to know if her listeners would be elephants or riders.
Do your students over react to small things? Do they struggle to regulate emotion? Do they act younger than their age? Many students have been exposed to trauma and as a result have difficulties in school. In this workshop you will: Review and learn more of the brain science behind trauma informed practices. Learn several tools for setting clear and respectful limits while maintaining connections with youth. Practice the process of making effective agreements with youth. Location: The 2100...
Via email from the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) Learn what students said about themselves, their school, family and community Be able to interpret and communicate the HYS results Learn how to use the HYS website and access your HYS data The training will include small group activities, to make these activities worth your while, please bring your laptop in order to access your HYS data. Consider bringing a colleague to enhance your learning and action planning.
Our goal as an agency is to get 90% of Washington’s children to be “ready for kindergarten,” and to have race and family income not be predictors of readiness. About 20% of Washington’s children are in families at or below 110% of the federal poverty level (FPL,) or about $24,000 for a family of four. These young people face many challenges in life and are a key part of any rational economic strategy for the state, as well as being part of the paramount duty enshrined in Washington’s...
March 29 -- 8:30 am - 3:30 pm -- Olympia -- Workshop Overview: This workshop will provide an overview of the Six Seconds framework for understanding emotional intelligence and how it supports professional development. Emotional intelligence is the capacity to blend thinking and feeling to make optimal decisions - which is key to having successful relationships and improved effectiveness. The Six Seconds Emotional Intelligence model provides a framework for learning and action. Cost: $256 For...
March 31, 2017 -- 2pm - 5pm -- Spokane The workshop attendees will learn about risk factors and epidemiology of perinatal mental disorders (MDD, Bipolar Dis, Anxiety Dis, Psychotic Dis, PTSD, Grief related issues), differential diagnosing, and evidence based assessment and treatment. In the end of the workshop they will be able to create an evidence based service plan to meet the needs of the woman and her family. In addition, they will be able to identify cultural and socio-economic factors...
This training is appropriate for anyone who is interested in learning about suicide prevention in schools, healthcare, and community settings. When: Wednesday May 10 th , 9:00 am to 4:30 pm Where: Yakima Convention Center 10 N 8 th Street, Room 400, South Ballroom, Yakima, WA 98901 Cost: $35 and provides educational clock hours for educators and continuing education hours for social workers. Lunch will be provided Register: https://amsr_with_ospi_5-10-17.eventbrite.com See attached flyer.
Attached is a handout describing ACEs Connection and the Washington State ACEs Action group. Feel free to share this with partners doing ACEs-related work.
Lincoln Alternative High School is in the small city of Walla Walla in southeastern Washington. It had been a place for students with disciplinary issues, those removed from the area’s other high schools, ordered there by a judge, or those who had performed poorly in middle school. Tucked in the middle of a residential neighborhood, Lincoln’s brick edifice and cherry-red doors now serve as a place of opportunity for many students. At Lincoln, the first trauma-informed high school in the...
Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) – Kindergarten Preparedness Analytics Data and Archived Webinar http://k12.wa.us/DataAdmin/PerformanceIndicators/DataAnalytics.aspx#kindergarten Includes links to data files, archived webinar (presentation recording) and PowerPoint slides. In the analytics section, you can look at the WAKids data by year, Educational Service District (ESD), school district (district detail tab), student groups and indicators. Student groups include :...