To have your resource/event included, please e-mail at least 2 weeks in advance, a high-resolution PDF file ONLY, (no JPEG) or a link to the landing page to Alexia Bridges at abridges@cscbroward.org
COMMUNITY NEWS BLAST
THE 21/22 FAMILY RESOURCE GUIDE IS HERE!
Up to 200 physical copies can be picked up, via prior arrangement, at the Children’s Services Council. Please get in touch with Andrew Leone aleone@cscbroward.org or 
Danielle Bachelder dbachelder@cscbroward.org to arrange a drive-by pick-up.

To obtain more than 200 copies, don't hesitate to get in touch with Dina @ Kessler Creative:
HOT TOPICS
Infrastructure Building Capacity Grants - Request for Applications (RFA) 
A virtual Mid-Bid Conference will be held TOMORROW, September 14, 2021, at 2:00 p.m. The conference will be conducted via Zoom.  

This conference will be the last opportunity to receive verbal instructions regarding the RFA. To register, please use the button seen here.
The Children’s Services Council of Broward County (CSC) announces the release of an Infrastructure Building Capacity Grant Request for Applications (RFA) for small, mid-sized, and niche nonprofit organizations. The RFA will support projects designed to improve business function and organizational infrastructure building for child and family serving nonprofit organizations in Broward County.
This procurement is available through CSC’s web-based Contract Administration and Procurement System (CAPS), and responses must be submitted through CAPS. Interested parties can access the RFA from http://www.cscbroward.org.
FUTURE LEADERS AND INFLUENCERS
Step into the TEEN SCENE *Details Below*
THE READING NOOK
COVID-19: TESTING, VACCINATIONS, UPDATES, AND RESOURCES
CSC BROWARD
TRAINING
#CSCBrowardTrains
CSC is taking online training by force! Log onto the Training Website for our current online offerings. Join the Mailing List (bottom of the page) to be informed each week of the latest topics scheduled.
NEW SUCCEED WITH SELF-LEADERSHIP PART 2 -AUTHENTICITY AND CREATIVITY FOR LEADERSHIP
Date: September 22, 2021
Time: 9:30 am
NEW LEADING FOR SUCCESS
Date: September 23, 2021
Time: 9:30 am
NEW POWER STRUGGLES: STEPPING INTO YOUR OWN AUTHORITY WITH PEACEFUL COOPERATION
Date: September 23, 2021
Time: 1:30 pm
PARENT RESOURCES
COMMUNITY PARTNERS' CORNER
The CSC continues to support providers and the families they serve through the distribution of PPE and other resources. Agencies needing PPE and Family Resource Guides should contact
Andrew Leone aleone@cscbroward.org or
Danielle Bachelder dbachelder@cscbroward.org to arrange pick-up.
SELF-CARE / WELLNESS CHECK
The Center for Mind-Body Medicine
Welcome to Transforming Trauma: An Introduction to Your Healing Journey

Trauma – injury to the mind, body, spirit – comes to us all. Our initial responses to trauma are healthy and designed to preserve us. First, we seek out connection and comfort; we call and look for help. When safety and reassurance are unavailable, we experience the fight-or-flight response. When fight or flight and the stress response can’t deal with an overwhelming and inescapable threat, a last-ditch survival mechanism, the “freeze” response, takes over.
Fight-or-flight is a life-saving response. When prolonged, however, we become agitated and hyper-vigilant; we feel powerless, grow angry with little or no provocation; we cannot concentrate or relax into a sleep that may be filled with nightmares of what we’ve suffered or might again undergo. When we freeze, our body collapses or grows rigid, and our emotional numbness may make us pull away from those to whom we’ve been close. We’re unable to find relief by sharing our pain with them.
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Time to Focus on Self-Care
We have all been through quite a lot throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and many of us have learned a lot about our own habits and the activities of others. Maintaining good health and adopting positive behaviors that promote wellbeing are very important to a healthy and satisfying life.

Click the button below for 10 considerations to keep in mind when engaging in your own self-care.
FEATURE YOUR RESOURCES
CSC Broward is pleased to share child and family-related information, including funding opportunities. Please contact the sponsoring organizations directly for more info. Resources/events in the blast are listed free of charge and, unless sponsored by the CSC, should not be considered as endorsements.

To have your resource/event included, please e-mail at least 2 weeks in advance, a high-resolution PDF file ONLY, (no JPEG) or a link to the landing page to Alexia Bridges at abridges@cscbroward.org