Finding Meaning and Balance Between Home and Hybrid Working: Self Care and Support
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Challenges To Implementing Financial Literacy Programs
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Hosting Virtual Family Fun Nights
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Zoom Fatigue: What It Is and What We Can Do About It
Feeling exhausted by all the online meetings? In this month's CSC Family Support webinar, we will explore the characteristics of Zoom fatigue, why it happens, and how we can minimize its effects. We will discuss both physical and psychological aspects of Zoom fatigue. We will share strategies for both presenters and participants, adults and children. Join us to learn more about this timely topic. View Zoom Fatigue
Start the Career Conversation Here: In-Demand Careers for Pennsylvania Students
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Speaking Up! Your Voice Matters
In this month's CSC Family Support webinar, we will explore advocacy: speaking up for yourself or on behalf of your child, bringing attention to an issue and supporting an action, or creating a policy agenda and working to enact it. The panel includes both family members who "speak up" and get results and organization leaders who bring attention to critical issues and recommend actions. View Speaking Up
Parents Providing Support: Helping Our Children Return to School
This online panel discussion to help parents with students who are returning or have just returned to school – whether virtually, hybrid or live. Through the lens of social and emotional learning, our panelists will share thoughts, strategies and practices for helping our students returning to school during this challenging time in history. View Parents Providing Support
Reopening of School and Planning Remote Learning in Afterschool
As we reopen schools, we need to take into consideration that some schools will be teaching in a remote manner, and some youth will be in afterschool programs all day. Join us to explore some planning strategies for instructional supports, setting up the environment, types of IT tools needed and how to create a school, family afterschool staff communication system to support youth. View Reopening of School and Planning Remote Learning in Afterschool
Weaving Together Love and Loss: Supporting Grieving Children and Families
We often misunderstand grief in children or mistakenly believe that children do not experience grief at all. Yet, anyone old enough to love is old enough to grieve. Young children experience and respond to grief in unique ways that are not always clear to adults and caregivers. This webinar will help you to better understand grief in children and learn how you can support both children and families experiencing loss. View Weaving Together Love and Loss
The Importance of Social Emotional Learning with the Reopening of Afterschool Programs
As we reopen afterschool programs, we need to take into consideration the social emotional needs of youth upon reuniting. We will explore Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning’s (CASEL) Re-entry tool “Reunite, Renew, and Thrive: Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Roadmap for Reopening School”, as well as the Pre-K -12 Career Ready Standards. In addition, we will share daily curricular strategies to support SEL. View The Importance of SEL
What’s Hot in STEAM this Summer: Girls Who Code Clubs
Learn how to start a Girls Who Code club, a completely free afterschool program for 3rd-12th grade girls. Discover how your school or community can join a sisterhood of supportive peers and role models and use computer science to change the world. View Girls Who Code Club
What's Hot in STEAM this Summer: Go Virtual – Quick & Easy – With StartSOLE Virtual Pennsylvania
Learn how to start immediately facilitating remote synchronous inquiry-based sessions with your students using StartSOLE Virtual. A Self Organized Learning Environment, StartSOLE Virtual provides step-by-step support for planning lessons for your class, has 15,000+ standard aligned questions, teacher generated resources, and a quick and easy interface for building customized lesson plans. Join a community of more than 26,000 educators — 2,300+ in Pennsylvania — in over 100 countries. View StartSOLE
What's Hot in STEAM this Summer: Service Learning in Afterschool — Next Steps
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Building Relationships With Youth Virtually
In person, you work hard to build positive relationships with the young people you serve. Now that programming is virtual, we're all learning how to foster and grow connections to reduce isolation for each other. In this interactive webinar, you will learn five practical strategies to help you build positive relationships with youth online. We'll design ways to build developmental relationships where adults and youth learn together, plan together, make decisions together, and complete actions together to achieve a common goal. View Building Relationships With Youth Virtually
Afterschool Planning: Collaborative Efforts for Fall 2020
What will the school day look like in Fall 2020 with plans around keeping our schools and communities safe during COVID-19? Together we will explore ways for afterschool programs to develop sustainable, collaborative relationships with school districts. By working together, school districts and afterschool programs can better meet the needs of families. Participants will gain both a national and state perspective and learn best practices from presenters from the Afterschool Alliance, Pennsylvania school age child care directors, school district personnel and community agencies. The presentation will be followed by Q& A. View Afterschool Planning
What's Hot in STEAM this Summer: Service Learning in Afterschool
Wondering what service-learning could look like in your afterschool program? During this 2-part institute, you can learn how quality service-learning grows positive youth outcomes, engages youth in real world problem solving, and offers opportunities for youth to grow as leaders. During the first session, participants will gain a deeper understanding of service-learning, including how it is different from community service. Participants will learn what service-learning looks like in out-of-school time settings and hear about examples of where it is currently happening. In the second session, you'll review a handbook that makes it easy to take what you've learned and put it into practice. View Service Learning in Afterschool
What's Hot in STEAM this Summer: Engineering With Empathy
Engineers of all sorts utilize the design thinking method. While there are many variations of design thinking processes, they all emphasize the importance of empathy early in the design process. Whether you are planning a birthday party or designing the sleep quarters on the International Space Station, having an understanding of the many perspectives of the users will ensure that you ultimately meet the needs of your consumers. As educators, how do we help students gain empathy? In this session we will explore several strategies to help students gain empathy and use it within engineering challenges. View Engineering with Empathy
What's Hot in STEAM this Summer: Get the Scoop on Pennsylvania Careers
Five Pennsylvania STEAM professionals share about their careers and experiences, ways to encourage girls to enter STEAM-related jobs, what it takes to prepare for a specific career and how to be successful in the world of work in general. This webinar is designed primarily for afterschool staff who work with youth in career exploration and planning. View Get the Scoop
What's Hot in STEAM this Summer: Bring STEAM to Life Through Entrepreneurship
Starting young and providing consistent quality learning experiences, youth will learn to identify authentic opportunities, create innovative solutions, take calculated risks, and redefine failure as a learning opportunity. Get an overview of youth entrepreneurship and its connection to STEAM, engage in entrepreneurship activities, and create a plan to implement entrepreneurial learning with students. View Bring STEAM to Life
The Strengthening Families Protective Factors Framework in Out-of-School Time
Join other out-of-school time professionals and learn about the Strengthening Families Protective Factors Framework. Also, learn how healthy homes create an environment where students thrive and support the well-being of young people, as well as ways to engage parents as partners to promote school success and student well-being and how to make families feel part of the school community. View Strengthening Families Protective Factors Framework
The Olweus Bullying Prevention Program: An Overview and Local Implementation Perspective
This interactive and high quality presentation will provide an overview of the evidence-based Olweus Bullying Prevention Program including what is required to implement the program and a summary of costs. A local district in central Pennsylvania will provide a realistic perspective on implementation from the building and district view. They will provide an overview of the planning process through implementation and discuss some lessons learned. View OBPP
Parent Leadership Panel Discussion
Parent leadership is an important quality that helps parents and caregivers be healthy, productive and sociable members of society. Panelists will discuss the definition of parent leadership, and how parent leadership varies according to parents. This webinar features strategies to build successful partnerships with parents and caregivers, and help parents gain the knowledge and skills to function in meaningful leadership roles in their family and community. View Parent Leadership
Opening School-Age Childcare and Out-of-School Time Programs during COVID-19
With summer right around the corner, and with Pennsylvania phasing in re-opening, how do we plan for summer? Topics include CDC guidelines for safe opening, swimming and field trips, classroom set-up, project-based learning, social emotional components, and outdoor activities. View Opening Childcare and OST Programs
Improving Virtual Access to Your Afterschool Program
Access is a key issue for youth and their families as only 50% of Pennsylvanians have access to an afterschool program. In this webinar, participants will learn the difference between equality and equity and the importance of cultural and racial responsiveness. They will also learn ways to use data to demonstrate access needs and ways to improve virtual access in their communities. View Improving Virtual Access
Youth Virtual Town Hall With Lt. Governor and Second Lady Fetterman
Pennsylvania youth leaders and student advocates held a Virtual Town Hall with Lt. Gov. and Second Lady Fetterman to address concerns about COVID-19 effects on their families, schools and communities; and ask questions about the afterschool and summer learning programs they rely on for academic help, extracurricular activities, service learning and career exploration. The event was organized by PSAYDN and its partners. View Town Hall
Project-Based Learning: How to Integrate It Virtually in Your Afterschool Program
Making project-based learning part of the virtual out-of-school time experience gives youth new opportunities to become leaders, thinkers and problem-solvers. Through projects that they help design, students get more engaged in their communities and add their voice to discussions about local issues. Participants will learn about what project-based learning is and how to implement it in daily, virtual and physical afterschool activities. View Project-Based Learning
Finding Meaning and Navigating a New Normal: Self-Care While Supporting Others
The world has changed. Our current situation is temporary, things will be different on the other side and lead to some permanent changes. Attendees will identify and practice strategies for understanding and managing stages of grief including finding meaning; examine concepts from the psychology of resilience; characteristics of compassion fatigue and crisis-related stress will be identified; strategies for establishing and maintaining physical and psychological wellbeing will be examined; effective ways to communicate with others to increase successful client support will be discussed. View Finding Meaning and Navigating a New Normal
Summer Learning Planning for Afterschool Providers During the Pandemic
The Pennsylvania Statewide Afterschool/Youth Development Network invites Pennsylvania afterschool and summer learning professionals to participate in a ZOOM meeting to discuss challenges, planning and adaptation needed for summer programming in light of emerging issues from COVID-19. View Summer Learning Planning
Integrating Authentic Citizen Science Learning STEM Experiences Into Your Virtual Classroom or Afterschool Program
Citizen science is the involvement of members of the public in scientific research. Children can be online citizen scientists and help in conservation and protect natural resources in three ways: Increase scientific knowledge like a scientist, encourage related 21st century skills and explore science-related careers. Citizen scientists can contribute in many ways, including helping to track patterns in space or time, in the discovery of species and fostering environmental stewardship issues. Citizen Science projects and activities flow across a variety of fields including ecology, astronomy, medicine, computer science, statistics, psychology, genetics and engineering. In this session, participants will learn how to adapt citizen scientist projects into their virtual 21st CCLC programming. View Integrating Authentic Citizen Science Learning STEM Experiences
Surviving or Thriving? The Intentional Practice of Workplace Wellness
With the ever-increasing demands of the workplace, fostering our own resilience and social emotional wellness often takes a back seat. Mona Johnson will address the critical importance of prioritizing self-care practice and its inherent connection to K-12 workplace success. View Surviving or Thriving
Continuous Education: Aligning K-12 Afterschool Programming With the School Day
This session will discuss the benefits and importance of continuing student education from the school day into 21st Century Community Learning Centers program experiences. Participants will learn the six key components that support and nurture strong partnerships between the school day and out-of-school time programs. Participants will learn about Y4Y resources that can be easily implemented into afterschool sites. View Continuous Education
Classroom Technology Tools for Remote Afterschool Programs
In this session, you will learn about free and low-cost technology tools that give students access to digital learning tools. There are mobile apps, smartphone-friendly websites, and tools children and families can access on tablets, Chromebooks and laptop computers. Learn about the high-quality resources available for children that you can recommend to families or incorporate into a structured afterschool program. View Classroom Technology Tools
Emotions Mix Tape: Building Emotional Intelligence
What exactly are emotions? Participants will define emotions in terms of mind and body (recognizing emotions), build emotion vocabulary (labeling emotions), and define important aspects of emotional intelligence. Youth development professionals apply emotional intelligence in all they do, from supporting youth manage their feelings to interacting with parents to managing staff. Because music is important to young people and listening to music activates large areas of the brain associated with a wide range of emotions, participants will build a better understanding of emotions through music. View Emotions Mix Tape
Ways to Connect With Students and Families Virtually
There are lots of ways to use technology to connect with students and families virtually. In this session, join Dr. Monica Burns as she takes you through strategies and technology tools to make this happen. You’ll learn how to use your current communication channels and set up alternate communication channels to connect with your community. This session will also include an overview of how to set up newsletters and simple landing pages with information and resources for families. View Ways to Connect
Partnering With Dads to Promote Family Wellbeing
When programs support parents in building protective factors, families grow stronger and children benefit. Partnering with fathers intentionally, whether living with their children or not, is an important contributor to family wellbeing. This webinar will dig deeper into strategies for including and understanding dads. These approaches may be useful to any family support program, including but not limited to those implementing fatherhood-related curricula. View Partnering with Dads
Bullying Prevention and SEL: What Can I Do Now?
The research tells us that evidence-based practices in social emotional learning and bullying prevention help students to be successful in school. The question is: “What does that look like?” This interactive webinar will provide a brief overview of best practices in social emotional learning and bullying prevention. Participants will be provided with some simple, hands-on strategies to implement in their schools and classrooms that will support students and teachers in building a positive, cohesive, and welcoming environment. View BP and SEL
Connecting to Nature for Health, Wellness and Self-Care
This interactive webinar will make use of several senses to explore simple ways to connect with elements of nature. There will be facilitated discussions around the benefits of nature on mental health, the value of growing and eating your own vegetables/herbs, and easy ways to “grow your own.” Outcomes include confidence to be in nature and conduct the activities presented resulting in deeper self-care. View Connecting to Nature
Protective Factors, ACEs, HOPE and Resilience
In recent years there has been great interest in the science of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and how they can affect adult health and well-being. Many of us who work with children and families are eager to go beyond understanding the impact of ACEs to thinking about how our work can prevent ACEs from occurring, buffer children from negative effects of adversity they do experience, and support families so that they can thrive despite any challenges they may face. Join this webinar to learn about an emerging body of research that illuminates the role of positive childhood experiences and family protective factors in improving outcomes throughout the lifespan, and how all of this can guide us to better support children and families. View Protective Factors
Get a Grip! Strategies for Strengthening Our Own Self-Regulation
Self-regulation is a key skill that we all need in order to be healthy, productive and sociable members of society. The principles and strategies for teaching self-regulation to children also apply to adults, but sometimes we have to take more responsibility for getting the support we need. This webinar will provide a brief review of self-regulation principles and help participants match those principles to strategies they can implement in their own adult lives. View Get a Grip
Building Effective Youth-Adult Partnerships
How do you form effective partnerships with youth that allow them to build the skills and competencies to be successful? Youth-adult partnerships take place when youth and adults plan, learn, and work together, with both groups sharing equally in the decision-making process. Join us for this session to learn how to engage young people as active participants in your classrooms and programs so that they meet academic, civic, and social-emotional outcomes while practicing engaged citizenry. Participants will examine the role of youth voice in their programs and receive resources on how to move up the ladder of meaningful youth-adult partnerships. View Youth-Adult Partnership
Supporting Effective Group Events
This webinar is designed for organizations that host events for parents/families and caregivers. The presentation will help participants identify and utilize methods for holding effective group events. Participants will gain insight and awareness of various formats, topics, and marketing strategies. Participants will explore strength-based strategies that help parents/families and caregivers be more engaged in group events. View Group Events
Engaging Immigrant and Refugee Parents From a Cultural Humility Perspective
Many service providers face challenges providing services to immigrant and refugee families. In this webinar, we will explore strength-based strategies that go beyond language interpretation to improve parent engagement. You will have the opportunity to understand the cultural humility perspective, stages of immigrant parent engagement, and steps to create cultural adaptations to current activities/programs. View Engaging Immigrant and Refugee Parents
Focus on Fathers: Engaging Male Caregivers
This webinar will help participants identify and reduce barriers that inhibit male caregiver participation in their child's life and in programs designed for their benefit. Through this presentation, we will uncover the systemic, social and personal obstacles that restrict fathers and male caregivers involvement in both their child's life and in programs designed for the dad’s benefit. View Focus on Fathers
Current Drug Trends and Digital Resources
In this presentation, we will explore current drug trends, including specific information on vaping, marijuana and opioids. Participants will gain an understanding of adolescent addiction and the effects on the developing brain. Information on free digital resources for parents, adolescents, schools and families will be provided. View Drug Trends
Relationships Matter
In this presentation, we will explore how unhealthy relationships may impact the healthy growth and development of children, students and young people. Participants will gain a general understanding of teen dating violence (TDV) and its long-term impact. We will identify how TDV shares characteristics with other forms of domestic violence and peer abuse. This interactive webinar will include hands-on strategies and a brief exploration of teen dating violence prevention strategies and some immediate take-aways to share with students, staff and colleagues. View Relationships Matter
Engaging With the Future Talent Pipeline Earlier
Join us to learn about Tallo, an online platform that connects talent with opportunities. The Tallo app assists students in designing a career pathway, educators in recruiting top talent to their schools, and employers in developing a stable, continuous talent pipeline. Students (age 13+) and professionals showcase their skills and abilities in their online profile, connect directly with companies and colleges looking for the next generation of talent, and match with over $20 billion in scholarships. View Talent Pipeline
Mindfulness and Its Connection to Judgment
To be an effective leader within your home and community, building relationships and self-awareness are skills that are key. This workshop provides a new, in-depth lens on how we make judgments about others and how that relates to our own personal experiences. We will take a deep dive into personal experiences and aspects of mindfulness in order to fully understand and absorb the information. Opportunities for self-reflection will be provided in addition to how others can be exposed to the information moving forward. View Mindfulness
Trauma-Informed Care in Schools: Next Steps
Schools are increasingly struggling with how to address students that display behavioral, mental health, and/or substance misuse issues. Building on the keynote she delivered in April, Emily Daniels will guide participants in understanding the trauma-informed care movement in that is happening in schools, why it especially applies to pregnant and teen parents, and how it can help to engage these learners. View Trauma-Informed Care
Bullying Prevention in Early Childhood
Participants in this session will gain a better understanding of bullying behaviors and how they impact our youth. Specifically, we will focus on behaviors among our younger youth and identify some of the long-term adverse conditions that may result. Participants will come away from this webinar with strategies and resources to support parents to help their children make healthy connections and build social and emotional skills. View BP in Early Childhood
Getting Engaged: How SEL4PA Can Support Pennsylvania’s Social Emotional Learning Efforts
Learn about SEL4US efforts to create awareness and advance SEL work nationally. As well as how other states are working in collaboration with SEL4US and how Pennsylvania is poised to engage in these important efforts. The webinar will conclude with a call to action for SEL advocates who wish to participate in growing SEL4PA. View SEL4PA
Advocacy Lessons From the Wizard of Oz: Educating Policy Makers and Telling Our Story
Advocacy can be intimidating, but it is crucial that policymakers hear from people who care about children. Using a fun approach based on the Wizard of Oz, this session features strategies to build grassroots support, advocate for policies effectively, and to excel at media interviews. View Advocacy Lessons
It’s All About the Workforce
Learn how afterschool programs can connect and partner with local chamber of commerce members, workforce development boards and serve as career pathways for pre-apprenticeships. View It's All About the Workforce
Families Savings Programs From the Pennsylvania Treasury Department
This webinar will provide a greater understanding of three savings programs for families administered by the Pennsylvania Treasury Department. Specifically, the presenter will describe the Keystone Scholars, PA 529 College and Career Savings Program, and PA ABLE Savings Program. View Families Savings Programs
The Implementation of Parent and Teen Wellness Circles
The presenters are Scott and Holly Stoner, co-directors of the Samaritan Family Wellness Foundation in Glendale, WI. This presentation is a follow-up to their general session offered on April 10 at the ELECT Statewide Conference, during which participants learned how to run Parent and Teen Wellness Circles, about Motivational Interviewing and the stages of change, and were given the materials needed to facilitate such a group. The webinar will offer an opportunity to have your questions answered and provide strategies and best practices for using the Parent and Teen Wellness Circle concepts in 1:1 meetings with students. View Wellness Circles
NASA Family Science Webinar Part 2: Engaging Students and Their Families through STEM
In Part 2, participants will delve into the NASA Family Science Night curriculum, a freely-available suite of resources for engaging the whole family in STEM activities. We will also discuss the philosophy and pedagogy behind the NASA Family Science Night model, and the outcomes of intensive evaluation throughout development and dissemination. View NASA Part 2
Principles and Practices in Infant Mental Health
You are invited to take a brief, deeper dive into the core interdisciplinary principles of infant and early childhood mental health. Additionally, we will explore Pennsylvania's Alliance for Infant Mental Health's (PA-AIMH) newly implemented Endorsement process. This webinar will be facilitated by an Infant Mental Health Specialist endorsed, Central Region PA-AIMH board member. View Principles and Practices
NASA Family Science Webinar Part 1: Engaging Students and Their Families through STEM
In Part 1, participants will be provided with an overview of the research on family/parental impacts on learning that have spurred our decision to design family-oriented programming and the lessons that we learned during implementation and pilot-testing. We will discuss the challenges that arise when working with mixed audiences of adults and children, and research-driven strategies for engaging all audience members equally as learners to create an environment of family discovery and knowledge-building. View NASA Part 1
Creating and Exploring Local Tools to Ensure Educational Stability for Youth in Foster Care
In this webinar, attendees will explore tools and procedures created locally to aid in the implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act’s foster care provisions. Discover why these local tools help to ensure educational stability for youth in foster care and take away ideas to create new procedures or to integrate into existing practices. View Creating and Exploring Local Tools
Implementing SEL to Meet Every Student’s Needs
How can you ensure that your SEL programming is meeting the needs of learners who each bring unique strengths, cultural assets and often trauma to class each day? In this interactive webinar, learn how administrators and educators can implement SEL programming to meet the needs of all students – even those struggling behaviorally and academically. View Implementing SEL
Reframing Challenging Conversations to Meaningful and Solutions Oriented Conversations
Working together with other adults, including family members and professionals, sometimes requires participation in conversations that can be challenging. This session will provide strategies to help you make the most of these conversations by maintaining focus on listening, understanding and ultimately creating solutions. View Reframing Challenging Conversations
Steps to a Successful Transition
It is recognized that all high school graduating students could benefit from goals that prepare them for adulthood. The Midwestern Intermediate Unit's ELECT program took it a step further and categorized these goals into six independent living categories. Students are empowered to complete the Steps to a Successful Transition with an intense 10-12 week follow up after their graduation. This webinar will highlight a best practice for serving students in the ELECT transition component and allow for discussion and sharing among program staff. View Successful Transition
Responding to and Preventing Child Neglect: Providing Support for Families Using the Strengthening Families Approach
This webinar is intended to provide an overview of research-informed methods for supporting families and responding to disclosures and findings of child neglect. Participants will gain insight and awareness related to child neglect including variables that can contribute to neglect within families. Using the Strengthening Families Protective Factors framework as a lens, we will explore how to navigate disclosures and discussions about neglect with families using a strengths-based approach. View Responding to and Preventing Child Neglect
Parental Engagement in Afterschool: Never Give Up!
Participants in this webinar will reflect on how they define parental engagement, and how parents define it. Dr. Ed Bell, a 13-year veteran with the 21st CCLC program and a former afterschool director, will discuss the importance of parental engagement in the afterschool setting while sharing personal and professional scenarios for getting and keeping parents engaged. At the conclusion of the webinar, participants will rethink how to define parental engagement in an afterschool setting and develop nontraditional ways of getting parents engaged. View Parental Engagement
Building Your Bounce: Simple Strategies for a Resilient YOU
“If you get up one time more than you fall, you will make it through” – Chinese proverb. In this webinar, learn how to take care of YOU so you can better take care of the children whose lives you touch. This webinar will help adults reflect on their own resilience and explore ways to "build your bounce" through simple, easy-to-use strategies. Join co-author of Building Your Bounce: Simple Strategies for a Resilient You, Nefertiti Bruce Poyner, Ed. D., as she shares her insights on this very important and timely topic! View Building Your Bounce
Parenting Behaviors – Promoting Positive Parenting
The quality of parent-child interactions is influenced by a parent’s knowledge of how their behaviors impact their child’s development. Parents who engage in rich communication and exhibit supportive, responsive, nurturing, guiding, behaviors with their children, positively impact their child’s development across all domains. Through this conversation, family support professionals will explore ways to promote positive parenting behaviors. Professionals will identify practical ways to transform their understanding of the development centered parenting approach and put it into practice. View Parenting Behaviors
Understanding Dropout Prevention: Strategies to Support Children and Youth Experiencing Homelessness
Dropping out of school is often a process of disengagement that occurs over time. The complexity of this process points to the need for systemic solutions that address root causes, necessitating changes in the way we “do” school. More than a million children and youth in the U.S. have been identified as homeless, a traumatic circumstance that can place them at greater risk for low achievement and school dropout. These students present their own specific challenges that schools and the greater community must be aware of and address in order for our children and youth to be educationally stable, successful and fully prepared for college, career or civic life. This webinar explores the challenges faced by students experiencing homelessness, and how educators and agency personnel can have a positive impact on their success. View Understanding Dropout Prevention
Preventing Substance Use and Abuse Among Pregnant and Parenting Teens
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, addiction is a chronic, often relapsing brain disease that causes compulsive drug seeking and use, despite harmful consequences to the addicted individual and to those around him or her. View this webinar to learn about the continuum of addiction and discuss prevention strategies and treatment options best suited to pregnant and parenting teens. No amount of alcohol is safe during pregnancy. Participants will identify symptoms of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD). Not all children with FASD are alike, the symptoms vary from mild to severe and early identification is the first step to an improved prognosis. Presenters also explore the distinction between helping behavior and enabling behavior in order to assist pregnant and parenting teens who may be struggling with substance use or abuse. View Preventing Substance Use and Abuse
College and Career Counseling for Students Experiencing Homelessness
The webinar provides information about the new McKinney-Vento requirements for counselors and liaisons related to supporting the career and college readiness of secondary students experiencing homelessness. Dr. Havlik will discuss the challenges that these students face becoming career and college ready and provide specific strategies to enhance their career and college counseling preparation. Dr. Havlik’s report, College and Career Counseling for Students Experiencing Homelessness: Promising Practices for Secondary School Counselors was recently published by the National Center for Homeless Education. View College and Career Counseling
Depression and Pregnancy: How to Support Your Clients
The webinar addresses various potential causes and manifestations of depression surrounding the perinatal period, and what home-visitors and other case-managers who work with pregnant women and mothers of young children can do to support them through this challenging time. View Depression and Pregnancy
Youth Voices Matter: Making Youth Self-Advocacy Real
Empowering young people means adults need to step back and serve as youth allies. Each encounter with a young person is a cross-cultural experience; only a young person intrinsically knows youth culture. Yet, generalizing all teens as if they share common opinions is risky as each young person is unique. A committed adult advocate will encourage youth self-advocacy and autonomy. This webinar facilitates a conversation with a panel of young people and explores the best way to inspire their self-advocacy. Their voices matter. Let them be your teachers! View Youth Voices Matter
Teaching Empathy: It’s Part of Daily Life
Teaching children to notice and care about other people starts with helping them recognize and manage their own emotions. This webinar provides specific strategies, starting with young toddlers and upward, that family members and other caregivers can use every day to help young children develop empathy. Suggested resources for supporting empathy and other important social skills are shared. View Teaching Empathy
Supporting Families Through Addiction
This webinar focuses on how to support families affected by opioid addiction, specifically regarding techniques to work with parents who struggle with opioid addiction, supporting families, and resources on how to talk to their children about addiction. It explores ways home visitation can address specific deficits in parenting caused by addiction and emphasizes the importance of home visitation knowledge of resources available for families. View Supporting Families
Suicide Awareness and Prevention
Many myths exist around the topic of suicide. One of the most dangerous myths is that talking about suicide with a young person will plant the idea in their head and cause suicide. In reality, the opposite is true. Asking directly about suicidal ideas or intentions can help people who believe like there is no one to talk to about how horrible they feel. This webinar introduces the risk factors that contribute to mental health issues and suicidal behavior and the warning signs that require immediate action. Strategies for intervening are explored as well as best practices for referrals and follow up. View Suicide Awareness and Prevention
Empowering Choices for Young Parents: Making Birth Control Options Real
Serving young parents requires a commitment to supporting the delay of another pregnancy. Parenting one baby while attending school can be challenging – two could make academic growth truly difficult. One of ELECT’s stated goals is delaying more childbearing. How does an educator offer education on contraception while empowering young parents to make healthy choices benefiting themselves and their little ones? This webinar offers medically accurate facts to assist ELECT personnel to teach contraception with respect, honoring each young parent’s personal values while creating an atmosphere of open communication. View Empowering Choices