April 25, 2019
Join Early Ages Healthy Stages Coalition members at a Communications and Advocacy Training Workshop on April 25 from 2:00-4:00 PM. The workshop will help build your understanding and skills to advance policies that impact early childhood health and wellness and its intersection with quality early childhood education. Topics covered at the training will include advocacy versus lobbying, tips for engaging with policymakers, effective storytelling and making your voice heard.
We are pleased to have Lynanne Gutierrez, Policy Director and Legal Counsel at Groundwork, provide early childhood equity and advocacy training to help mobilize local early childhood stakeholders around shared state policy priorities to advance investments in early childhood education and health. It will include a statewide overview of disaggregated data in addition to practical advocacy training to help prepare coalition members for the May 8 Early Childhood State Advocacy Day in Columbus.
We look forward to forming an EAHS team to attend the May 8 advocacy day and will share the registration information as soon as it is released as it is expected to reach capacity.
Register here.
Nutrition Resources Market
Unfortunately, we are needing to postpone the Nutrition Resource Market scheduled for next week until the fall. This event will now take place on Oct. 24 same time/same place. Attached is a revised flyer and we look forward to more time to promote the event and make this bigger and better!
We apologize for the convenience. If you have promoted next week’s event, please send out a notice about the event postponed and the new date. We will also post the revised flyer on the door of BBC for anyone who may not receive the cancellation and show up next Wednesday evening.
Be My Neighbor Day
This family-friendly event is all about being a caring neighbor and supporting families in Northeast Ohio. There is no cost to attend, but advance registration is required. Free trolley rides will be available as transportation to the event from five Cleveland Public Library branches. Guests can reserve a ride when they register to attend.
The event will include entertaining and educational activities for parents and children ages 3-8. Free parent resources from community organizations, free books, free refreshments and neighborhood trolley rides will be provided. Plus, guests will have the opportunity to enter a raffle for a chance to win prizes.
Advanced registration is required.
Rates of childhood obesity are nearly four times as high in low-resourced communities, with rates among 2-5 year-old children more than doubling in the past four decades, contributing to long-term health consequences and disparities. Poor nutrition and eating habits are a major contributor to pediatric obesity risk. Given that major trials have demonstrated little to no sustainable effect on reducing obesity in low-resourced communities, it is essential to improve our understanding of barriers to behavior change unique to populations living in high poverty, violent, economically depressed neighborhoods.
In this talk, Dr. Brittany Schuler will present her program of research drawing on family stress frameworks to examine mechanisms linking adversity and economic hardship to the development of familial dietary patterns and subsequent pediatric obesity risk in low-resourced populations. She will share her preliminary work documenting direct associations of early life adversities and childhood dietary habits. In addition, she will highlight her work on links between specific types of economic hardship on parenting stress dynamics and subsequent family mealtime quality. Dr. Schuler will discuss how this work serves as the basis for the development of an innovative framework for addressing childhood obesity in the context of adversity. This presentation will provide foundational information on the multifaceted links between adversity phenotypes and obesity risk, information hypothesized to be crucial for childhood obesity prevention.
Join us for a three session series designed for community members with an interest in civic leadership. This series will equip leaders with the tools necessary to take an active role in local, state, county, and federal government. Learn the foundation and principles of what it means to participate in political processes, civics, advocacy, and engagement in our democratic society.
September 12th: Local Government
September 19th: County and State Government
September 26th: Federal Government
Join us for a three session series designed for community members with an interest in civic leadership. This series will equip leaders with the tools necessary to take an active role in local, state, county, and federal government. Learn the foundation and principles of what it means to participate in political processes, civics, advocacy, and engagement in our democratic society.
September 12th: Local Government
September 19th: County and State Government
September 26th: Federal Government
Overview:
This short film is presented by First Year Cleveland’s Pregnancy and Infant Loss (PAIL) Initiative and the Healthy Neighborhoods Committee of the Healthy Cleveland Initiative.
Location:
Cleveland Natural History Museum (1 Wade Oval Dr, Cleveland, OH 44106)
Agenda:
5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Light Refreshments & Networking
6:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. Film Premiere
6:30 p.m. -7:15 p.m. Film Discussion
The film discussion will be facilitated by Debra Adams Simmons, Executive Editor for Culture at National Geographic
* Free parking in Cleveland Natural History Museum Parking Garage
On September 25th, PRE4CLE will celebrate five years of success with a Birthday Bash to reflect on the accomplishments of the PRE4CLE plan to-date, honor the many partners and supporters who have made those accomplishments possible, and share our vision for the next phase of PRE4CLE’s work.
Event Details
Studios at 78th Street
1300 West 78th Street, Cleveland
Drinks and hors d’oeuvres served beginning at 5:00 p.m.
Program begins at 6:30 p.m.
Parking available on site.
Honorees
PRE4CLE will also honor four early learning champions that were a critical part of our success during the past five years. The honorees will include:
PRE4CLE Co-Chairs Eric Gordon, Chief Executive Officer, Cleveland Metropolitan School District and Marcia Egbert, Senior Program Officer for Human Services, The George Gund Foundation
Kristen Baird Adams, Chief Communications Officer, PNC Bank
Billie Osborne-Fears, Executive Director, Starting Point
Supporting Vibrant Preschool Classrooms
Funds raised from the Birthday Bash will be used to equip high-quality PRE4CLE classrooms with new toys, books, equipment, and other early learning supplies to ensure that teachers have the tools they need to fully implement a high-quality preschool curriculum. While all PRE4CLE classrooms have the markers of high-quality — such as credentialed teachers, a research-based curriculum, and daily outreach to families — many programs struggle to afford updated classroom supplies. Funds from the Birthday Bash will allow PRE4CLE to offer this much-needed support to classrooms throughout the city.
Individual Ticket Prices
$75 | Includes food and drink for one attendee
$150 | Includes food and drink for one attendee and supports admission for one preschool provider
$250 | Includes food and drink for one attendee and supports admission for two preschool providers
Amounts in excess of $45 per attendee are tax deductible.