JANUARY 2023

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Happy New Year!

The CBSG Program is conducted throughout the United States and in several foreign countries. Depending on which part of the world you live in, some of you may be very familiar with snow, while others may experience snowfalls very little, if at all. Regardless, we can all appreciate the beauty of a fresh blanket of snow and how it seems to cover some of the bleakness of January.

Whether we have seen a snowflake up-close and personal or not, science explains that each one has its own unique look and characteristics. Snowflakes are like us and the children and youth we serve, each one is special. As human beings we have similarities, but still, we are each unique. Even studies of identical twins have shown they possess different personalities despite looking exactly alike.

We hope you enjoy the attached Snowflake Activity with your group participants or in classrooms. Regardless of age, making snowflakes is a fun activity from which we can all learn how unique and special we all are!

Gratefully,

The Rainbow Days Training Team

Resource Connection

This month's Resource Connection feature is an activity for reflecting on our own uniqueness. Enjoy completing this activity with your CBSG participants or your own family!

Snowflake Handout

Snowflake Activity

Join us soon for a Curriculum-Based Support Group (CBSG®) Program Facilitator Training

Kids’ Connection, Youth Connection, and Kids’ Connection, Too (collectively known as the CBSG^® Program) are unique, interactive, multi-cultural curriculum-based prevention interventions that teach high-risk children and youth ages4-17 a set of essential life skills: skills to help them learn how to cope with difficult family situations (which include Adverse Childhood Experiences), resist negative peer pressure, set and achieve goals, and refuse alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs.

This training is designed to fully prepare schools, community-based organizations, churches, juvenile justice divisions, volunteers, and other youth service professionals to fully implement the CBSG^® Program with fidelity. Those completing this training will receive their choice one of the CBSG^® Program Facilitator manuals:

Kids’ Connection

For ages 4-12 in Schools

and Communities

Youth Connection

For ages 10-17 in Schools

and Communities

Kids’ Connection, Too

For Ages 4-15 in Transitional Living Environments

APRIL 18 & 19

9am-12:30pm each day

Virtual CBSG^®Program Facilitator Training via Zoom ($300/participant)

JUNE 13 & 14

9am-12:30pm each day

Virtual CBSG^®Program Facilitator Training via Zoom ($300/participant)

JUNE 28

9am-12:30pm

Virtual CBSG^®Program Facilitator Refresher Training via Zoom ($75/participant)

* Please note that you must have previously completed the 7-hour CBSG Program Facilitator Training before attending the Refresher training.

AUG 22 & 23

9am-12:30pm each day

Virtual CBSG^®Program Facilitator Training via Zoom ($300/participant)

“I would say to any superintendent or principal, 'You need this curriculum because it's going to change the whole tenor of your school. It's going to move your children from a place of being scared and afraid to a place of power and sense of belonging. The guided implementation and practice of the program's tenants - I Am, I Can, I Have, I Will, I Believe - will transform your campus to a place no one will recognize.'”

Valorie Horn, Program Director, V.O.I.C.E. (Viable Options in Community Endeavors)

Order the Newest Editions of

Kids' Connection & Youth Connection Today!

The 2022 Revised Editions of Curricula are available for purchase! If you have completed a CBSG^® Program Facilitator Training, you are eligible to order these new editions. Don’t miss out on getting these

revised editions before the new year!

Order Now

New activities in Kids’ Connection and Youth Connection

Inclusion of 2021 Theory Logic Model and Outcomes Approach Logic Model

New CBSG^® Program Evaluation Summary (2021) and Evaluation Pre/Post Tests

CBSG^® Program outcome statements for implementers and revised overview and implementation guidelines

Updated guided discussions and activities, forms and reporting requirements to support CBSG^® Program implementation

Spanish translation of updated and new activity worksheets and newly developed parent/partner information and permission documents

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JANUARY 2023

Happy New Year!

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