Ohio Ready to Learn Workshops
Approved for 6 hours of Ohio Approved/SUTQ hours – FREE!
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Phase 1: Reducing Stress and Building Resilience
This workshop will help early childhood educators and providers to identify personal stress triggers and develop strategies to cope with stress and practice mindfulness. Participants will also practice multiple teaching strategies that will support young children’s self-regulation skills and positive social behaviors.
Phase 2: Teaching Persistence
This workshop for early childhood educators and providers will focus on multiple teaching strategies that will support young children’s persistence in carrying out challenging tasks including self-help skills such as buttoning, typing, and zipping.
Phase 3: STEM Everywhere Every Day
Everyday routines can provide wonderful opportunities to incorporate STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) learning into a child’s day in meaningful and relevant ways. Explore resources and strategies that will engage young children in age-appropriate, STEM-related activities that connect to everyday routines.
Healthy Habits- ST# 10078219. This session focuses on supporting teachers to build healthy habits in early learning environments. This is Part 4. You must attend all four parts to receive credit.
Part 1 – The importance of providing physical activity opportunities in child care settings will be stressed.
Part 2 – The role of how adults support children in feeding and eating will be discussed. Participants will learn basic nutrition and tips on how to encourage new foods in a healthy manner.
Part 3 – Participants will discuss what constitutes a healthy body weight for children. Ideas for healthy growing will be further explored through discussion of how healthy food can be grown in child care settings.
Part 4 – This last session of the Healthy Habits series focuses on strategies to encourage parent outreach.
Training is free, participants will receive 10 Ohio Approved Step Up hours upon completion of ALL FOUR classes in the session.
Target audience:
- Early Care and Education Providers
- Agencies and Organizations
Registration information:
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For more information, contact: Theresa Henderson at 216-201-2001 ext. 1552 or thenderson@ccbh.net
Website: www.ccbh.stagingnotavicreative.com
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.
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The Roundtable on Obesity Solutions is hosting a 75-minute webinar that will explore the role of infant and early childhood nutrition (birth to <2 years of age) related to healthy growth and the prevention of overweight and obesity later in childhood. Presentations will feature the current prevalence and trends of high weight-for-length in infants and young children, the state of the science on nutrition-related modifiable risk factors, and obesity prevention interventions that address healthy growth, with a special emphasis on reducing disparities in populations with above-average obesity risk.
Join us on Thursday, July 18 at 12:00 PM EDT for this free 75-minute event to hear from our guest speakers:
- Kathryn Dewey, University of California, Davis
- Cynthia Ogden, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Bill Dietz, The George Washington University
- Elsie Taveras, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
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