JUST FOR YOU,
some of the BEST family well-being ambassadors we know!
NH Children's Trust has learned of several opportunities coming up that may be of interest to you and we couldn't help but share! Also included are some ongoing resources that we wanted to make sure you knew about so read on!
If you know of any additional resources available or trainings coming up you think would be worth sharing with a larger network, please send information to [email protected].
Please feel free to share the below resources and events with your families, friends, and co-workers!
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FREE Parent Further webinar
"You don't have to parent alone"
Wednesday, July 17, 12 - 1pm
This webinar is a great tool for parents to further their family's well-being and a tool for providers to awaken families to their support systems.
Sometimes we as parents can feel like we're on our own with the
inevitable challenges and stresses of parenting and family life. And sometimes when we're facing the most pressure, we turn inward, either because we're too tired to do anything else or because we're embarrassed about the issues we're facing. In reality, all families face challenges, and it's a lot easier to deal with the obstacles when we have supporters, allies, and friends who we can turn to. In this webinar, you will:
Learn about the importance of building strong connections for yourself and your child with people and places that you can count on-particularly during difficult times.
Gain practical ideas for strengthening your web of support for you as a parent.
Discover concrete ways to ensure that your child has a strong web of support from positive peers and adults.
Be inspired to make a positive difference for all kids and families in your community.
FREE Youth Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) Course
Friday July 19, 9 am - 3 pm
Granite State College, Room 103, 25 Hall Street, Concord
Thom Linehan from UNH Cooperative Extension (and president of FSNH) shared this FREE training coming right up this Friday!
The course teaches participants the risk factors and warning signs of several mental health challenges common among teens. Participants do NOT learn to diagnose, nor how to provide any therapy or counseling - rather, participants learn a five-step action plan to support a teen developing signs and symptoms of mental illness or in an emotional crisis. Pre-registration requested. Contact Gail Kennedy via email at [email protected]. Please bring your brown bag lunch and snacks! For those of you who would prefer to order lunch - one option is In A Pinch Caf� & Bakery, 146 Pleasant St. telephone 226-3790. You can view their menu at www.inapinchcafe.com You can call ahead for pick-up or delivery (there is a charge of $1.00 for delivery)
Stop Hurting Kids Campaign
NH Filmaker, Dan Habib, has made his latest film, Restraint and Seclusion: Hear Our Voices, from the "Stop Hurting Kids" campaign website available indefinitely at no charge. Just click on the
'vimeo' logo within the video player to watch and/or download the film. There is no cost and the video will be available indefinitely.
You can use this film (28-minutes long) for public awareness, professional development, teacher training or any other purpose that does not involve charging a fee. The free distribution of the film is possible thanks to support from the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).
Raising Tolerant and Kind Children
The Center for the Improvement of Child Caring recently shared this news with us of an exciting new initiative. Although the project is designed for teachers you may find something relevant to integrate in your family resource center programming:
The 39-year-old Center is developing a new parenting project called Raising Tolerant and Kind Children. It is focused on helping parents model and reinforce acts of tolerance and kindness with their children. It also assists them in relating to their children over the darker sides of humanity, intolerance, cruelty and hatred. This project includes coverage of how to speak to your children about the Holocaust and other forms of genocide.
National Advocacy Center Resources
Did you know the National Child Advocacy Center has a number of resources on their website available for free?
Included in these resources are the Prevention Fact Sheets. The NCAC's fact sheet series,
As a Matter of Fact, discusses key research findings on the importance of child abuse prevention and are presented in a single sheet format that is easy to access, read, and distribute.
Ask the Expert Sessions
Earn a course completion certificate with one of over 40 free online training courses available on the NCAC website. Topics cover all disciplines and courses may be watched at your convenience.
The iWitness Project
During this, the 20th anniversary year of Steven Spielberg's Oscar-winning film, Schindler's List, the USC Shoah Foundation has launched a video essay contest called the IWitness Video
Challenge for middle and high school students. You can watch Spielberg announce the challenge by clicking here.
The Challenge invites students from all over the U.S. and Canada to be inspired by the voices in IWitness, to use their innovation and creativity to create positive value in their communities by doing something ordinary (or extraordinary), and then asks them to build a video telling the story about how they contributed to making their communities a better place.
They invite teachers to sign their classes up for the Challenge.
Final submissions of projects are due at the end of October (teachers can participate with a class in the fall semester).
Sesame Street talks incarceration
At the last FSNH meeting Kristina Toth of the Family Connections Center at the Department of Corrections shared about this new resource from Sesame Street. Here is some more information
Sesame Workshop's "Little Children, Big Challenges: Incarceration" Campaign and the Children of
Incarcerated Parents Federal Working Group have release materials to teach better coping skills and increase access to helpful resources to lessen the trauma children face when a parent is incarcerated.
Sesame Workshop's newest initiative, Little Children, Big Challenges: Incarceration provides free bilingual (English/Spanish) multimedia tools for families with young children (ages 3-8) who have an incarcerated parent, including a toolkit for parents and caregivers, a Children's Storybook, and a new Sesame Street video; an Incarcerated Parent Tip Sheet; and the Sesame Street: Incarceration mobile app, and more, all at SesameStreet.org/Incarceration.
FREE Baby Behavior training
Concord, September 10
Nationally renowned speaker Dr. Jane Heinig, PhD, IBCLC is coming to New England to share her popular Baby Behavior study with us!
This training is for WIC nutritionists, breastfeeding peer counselors,
home visitors, maternity and pediatric nurses, health care providers, lactation consultants, and other professionals who work with mothers and babies. Registration information coming soon. Space is limited, so mark your calendar. In the meantime, check out her blog Secrets of Baby Behavior, brought by the UC Davis Lactation Center.
Research on baby behavior conducted by Dr. Jane Heinig and colleagues at UC Davis has documented that when parents understand their infants' cues, they can meet the babies' needs appropriately, resulting in an increase in exclusive breastfeeding and a decrease in formula feeding and overfeeding. For more information about the training in New Hampshire, email [email protected]
Get a Heads Up on concussions
The CDC Foundation and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have launched a new Heads Up to Parents website and app. These new resources provide an important tool for parents and coaches who play a key role in helping to keep kids and teens safe from concussion and other serious brain injuries. TOOLS: Heads Up to Parents Press Release, Heads Up to Parents Overview on their Website, Learn More and Download the App and New Heads Up to Parents App and Website Blog Post.
Tackling Toxic Stress
Here are some professional development resources out of the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University-entitled: Tackling Toxic Stress-a series of journal articles.You can find them here.
 These journal articles are great comprehensive and research based resources and tools to inform your practice. If you are teacher, consultant, mentor and/or trainer this information is purposeful and needed in your work with children, families and professionals. It can also qualify as approved journal article reading for your self study hours. Please contact Child Care Licensing Unit if you have additional questions regarding documentation and hours when accessing self study time-you can have up to six hours per y ear of self study time towards the 18-hour professional development requirement.
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News from the Department of Education:
Mary Bubnis recently announced that there is a proposed rules change that is currently open for public comment. The proposed rules drop the current requirement that high schools offer a class in Family and Consumer Science.
This class can be where teens can get many of the prevention messages we hope reach them. Classes can cover topics including dating and relationship violence, maternal health during pregnancy, infant care and family financial management.
For more information about the proposed changes:
- The current minimum standards can be seen at this link. The Family and Consumer Science component starts on page 23.
- The proposed dropping of this requirement can be seen in the Initial Proposal document here, starting on page 33
- To comment go here and click on the link that says: "We are now accepting comments for all constituent groups."
Please make your concerns known. Comment period is open throughout the summer. Please consider commenting while this process is open to the public. Contact Mary Bubnis with any questions: (603) 271-3889, cell (603) 568-0803
Public Hearings are scheduled August 13, 2013 and in the northern part of the state on September 9, 2013.
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