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Keynotes for Children, Youth & Families
June 2010
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WORKSHOPS & CONFERENCES
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Youth Worker Conference
October 4-5, 2010
St. Cloud, MN
This year's Youth Worker Conference in St. Cloud is jointly sponsored by the Minnesota Council of Child Caring Agencies (MCCCA) and the Minnesota Juvenile Detention Association (MNJDA). This is an opportunity to share your experience and expertise with over 200 staff working in a range of programs with mentally ill, behaviorally disordered and homeless youth. One presenter per workshop will receive a complementary admission to the entire conference. Deadline for submitting proposals is June 4, 2010.
For more information, visit: http://mccca.org/cde.cfm?event=304652.
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Supporting Children of the National Guard and Reserve Institute:
Helping Children Thrive Through Mobilization and Deployment
October 6-7, 2010
8:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Radisson Suite Hotel, 404 West St. Germain, St. Cloud
The Military Child Education Coalition’sTM Supporting Children of the National Guard and Reserve Institute© is a professional development program for educators and professionals to reach out in a support network to the children and families of the National Guard and Reserve. The curriculum, content, process and delivery are correlated with the National Staff Developmen Council’s Standards and the National Standards for School Counseling Programs. Because the Institute is very interactive and particiaption is required to fully benefit from the training, participants must commit to attend both days.
Training is a two-day session (12 full seat hours required for insitute credit – attendance both full days required – no partial attendance accepted).
Registration deadline September 24, 2010. For more information or to register online at http://www.militarychild.org/education/guard-and-reserve-institutes/.
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RESOURCES FOR CHILDREN, YOUTH & FAMILIES
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Co-Parenting Website: Minnesota Fathers and Families Network and their Minnesota partner agencies have developed a great resource for parents and professionals interested in the topic of co-parenting. Learn about co-parenting for married, divorced, never-married and teen families. Find out how substance abuse, domestic violence, child abuse, or incarceration impacts the ability to parent together. Online here: www.WeCanParentTogether.org.
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Effort to Provide Health Care to Families : The Minnesota Coalition for Healthy Kids has launched the website www.HealthyKidsMN.org to connect families with uninsured children to non-profits that can help them enroll into state-sponsored health care coverage. Organizers say the biggest challenge is getting the message out that even if you work, your kids may qualify for free or reduced-cost health coverage from the state.
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CLIMB Theatre Update
It's that time of year again. Summer's almost here, and we at CLIMB are preparing for the fall. Already, we’re filling up our September and October calendar with performances of our educational plays and classes. We’re ready to find a date that works for you.
What’s new?
- If you’ve yet to see our new plays on bullying, cyberbullying, and harassment for grades K-9, now’s the time. As younger and younger kids gain access to technology, the cloak of anonymity provided by text messaging and social networks makes it easy for kids to forget the impact their words and actions can have on others. Start your year off with a reminder that compassionate behavior leads to a strong and healthy school community.
- Does your school serve preschoolers? You’re in luck. For the first time in over a decade, CLIMB has created a series of delightful mini-dramas for preschoolers that address issues ranging from classroom conduct to letter and number recognition.
- Are you ready for a long-term approach? A single play or workshop is a powerful reminder for respectful behavior, but if you’re ready to engage in programming that has the potential to transform your school climate, we’re ready to work. CLIMB will partner with your school to create a peer leadership group who will continue to work within your school after CLIMB has left the building.
- What about graduation standards? For the first time in CLIMB’s history, we will employ the tools we’ve used for character education to get your students thinking about history, reading, language, and possibly even math and science. Is there a section of your curriculum you’d like CLIMB’s help with? Let us know, and we can work together.
- Working with Second Step, Character Counts, Olweus, or PBIS? Our plays and classes provide excellent support to these programs.
To learn more about CLIMB Theatre and their programs visit: www.climb.org.
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General Resources:
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This newsletter is designed to share funding opportunities, resources, and conferences or training events of common interest for program participants and supporters of the Initiative Foundation. For more information about these and other training opportunities, contact Linda Kaufmann, Sr. Program Manager for Children, Youth & Families at lkaufmann@ifound.org.
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