Please join us for an update on efforts being made in early education to support children’s health and wellness, including updates from Governor DeWine’s Office of Childhood Initiatives, Ohio Department of Health, Ohio Department of Education and ongoing work by the OECHN working groups. We will be meeting in person in Columbus at OCCRRA and via this webinar link for those who are unable to travel in for the updates.
Feed Our Future: Local Foods for Growing Minds began as a local farm to school effort in Northeast Ohio to inspire local school districts and households to promote healthy, local foods. Over the past year, Feed Our Future has expanded its presence to reach both a regional and national audience, partnering with other like-minded organizations to ensure that school aged children have choice for local foods and also have opportunities to engage with the local food system within their school community.
In partnership with the Early Ages Healthy Stages coalition, Feed Our Future is currently exploring ways in which its model can be expanded to support early education.
Register for the webinar here.
About this Event
PUSHOUT: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools, is a documentary film by Monique W. Morris, Ed.D. and Women in the Room Productions who encourage a robust conversation about how to reduce the criminalization of Black girls in our nation’s learning environments.
Healthier Generation will be hosting a Take 15 Family Engagement Webinar on November 7th at 4:30 PM ET. https://healthiergeneration.webex.com/healthiergeneration/k2/j.php?MTID=t7d6b8f56170afb318995b55bd071bc8a
Anyone interested in learning more about general family engagement best practices/communication strategies can register for this free webinar at the link above. The webinar is only 15 minutes long so hopefully can accommodate more schedules.
Healthier Generation is also providing OECHN with early-access to one of our newest family engagement resources, a Healthy Day Checklist, attached and linked here: https://www.healthiergeneration.org/resources/healthy-day-checklist.
All future Family Engagement resources will be housed here: https://www.healthiergeneration.org/resources/family-engagement.
OhioGuidestone is one of Ohio’s leading providers of Early Childhood Services that help parents develop their children’s social, emotional, and behavioral skills from ages 0-6 years old. Their suite of programs include counseling and treatment, early childhood and family services, job training, foster care, and addiction recovery for families and children in 11 counties in northern Ohio.
OhioGuidestone, which was founded in 1864 to help care for children orphaned in the Civil War, continues to drive health, well-being and research to advance mental health and meet the needs of families.
- Participants will receive information about OhioGuidestone Early Childhood Mental Health Services
- Participants will review Adverse Childhood Experiences and the impact of Toxic Stress on the developing brain
- Participants will learn about a screening and integration effort to promote wellness and increase access to treatment services for young children
Assistant Vice President of Community Counseling
OhioGuidestone
Holli manages all child, adolescent and adult community counseling programs in Cuyahoga County and directs the highly specialized Early Childhood Mental Health program, which incorporates cutting-edge research and innovation in working with families and children ages birth to 6 years who experience trauma and toxic stress. Holli is also a clinical fellow with OhioGuidestone’s Institute of Family and Community Impact, where she serves as a co-investigator on research protocols and evaluates programs and tools for improving child and family outcomes. She is co-author of a neuroscience-based intervention to increase childhood resilience and improve relationships in families. Holli also serves as Chair of the Northeast Chapter of the Ohio Association for Infant Mental Health. Holli earned her Master of Science in Social Administration degree from Case Western Reserve University.