Tagged With "talking"
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2016 Talk+Play=Connect Child Abuse Prevention Month Campaign from YCCA
Yolo County Children’s Alliance is excited to share our expanded 2016 Talk+Play=Connect Toolkit for Families for Child Abuse Prevention Month. In addition to all of the information and ideas about talking, playing, and connecting that we disseminated last year, we have included new information and tip sheets on Times to Connect . The toolkit is available in English, Spanish, and Russian, and can be found at www.yolokids.org/forfamilies/ What information is in the expanded Toolkit for...
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Talking to Children About Tragedies & Other News Events
After any disaster, parents and other adults struggle with what they should say and share with children and what not to say or share with them. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) encourages parents, teachers, child care providers, and others who work closely with children to filter information about the crisis and present it in a way that their child can accommodate, adjust to, and cope with. ...
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Talking to Children About Tragedies & Other News Events
The American Academy of Pediatrics shares guidance on how to talk with children about tragedies, crises, and other disturbing news events, based on each child’s age and development. It includes that signs that a child is not coping well with distress. https://www.healthychildren. org/English/family-life/Media/ Pages/Talking-To-Children- About-Tragedies-and-Other- News-Events.aspx
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NY Times article on talking to children about their bodies
Give Your Child the Tools to Recognize Sexual Abuse: Talk to kids about their bodies and empower them to speak out. https://parenting.nytimes.com/ childrens-health/prevent- child-sexual-abuse
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Resilient Yolo Meeting Minutes - Feb, 1, 2019
Attached are the February 2019 minutes. Topics covered; Hillary Cottam TED Talk video, resilience inspired by Officer Corona, and committee updates.
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WEBINAR: Preventing Child Neglect by Building Protective Factors on 2/14
Join Strengthening Families for a webinar on Thursday, February 14, 12-1pm. Explore ways that it is "Everyone's Responsibility" to help prevent child neglect and how building protective factors at all levels of the social ecology can be an effective strategy to prevent child neglect. The session will include segments from one of the training sequences from the National Alliance of Children's Trust and Prevention Funds' new four-part training, "Let's Talk About . . . Preventing Child...
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Re: 2016 Talk+Play=Connect Child Abuse Prevention Month Campaign from YCCA
Hi Natalie, Are there any events planned for April by YCCA around Child Abuse Prevention month? The Project Run Way doesn't sound like a presentation or information fair, more of an event. Please let me know and if there is an opportunity for YRN to have a table or give a short presentation we would love to link up. If not in April perhaps another time. Thanks, Julie Langston
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I found my voice and I am going to use it
People are angry. Angry about institutional racism, angry about racial profiling, angry about police brutality, and angry about so many other displays of inequity that are happening in our country. People of color have always been marginalized in our society and people of all colors are finally saying enough is enough.
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NOW AVAILABLE: Farsi version of Talk+Play=Connect parent guide
Thanks to Family Hui’s support, the Talk+Play=Connect YCCA/CAPC parenting guide is now available in Farsi in addition to English, Spanish, and Russian! Here’s a description of the guide that you can share with parents from Afghanistan: Parents and caring adults make such a difference in children’s lives in so many ways. Talking and playing are two ways that you can nurture and connect with your children. Even just spending 10 minutes every day with your child, talking and playing with them...