Caring Cubs will be using their creativity to create cards and envelopes for Adoption Network Cleveland! We will be creating birthday cards, thank you notes, and congratulations cards as well as brightening up envelopes that the organization will use to hold gift cards and tickets when distributing to their members. We will then hear a few books on kindness from a staff member of the locally owned Appletree Books.   Adoption Network Cleveland supports anyone touched by adoption – adoptees, birthparents, adoptive parents, foster youth and alumni, foster parents and professionals.

Target audience:

• Preschool
• School Age
• Parents and Families

Registration information:

To register, visit: http://cc1.caringcubs.org/our-events/

For more information, contact: caringcubs@caringcubs.org

Website: cc1.caringcubs.org

Ohio Ready to Learn Workshops   

Approved for 6 hours of Ohio Approved/SUTQ hours – FREE!

Register here.

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.

Follow more information click on the link: Black History Collab Event 2019   

A Community Viewing of “Resilience: The Biology of Stress & The Science of Hope”

2:00 Documentary Viewing

3:00 Remarks and Q&A by Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, Surgeon General of California, CEO of Center for Youth Wellness, Pediatrician

Researchers have discovered a dangerous biological syndrome caused by abuse and neglect during childhood. As the documentary Resilience reveals, toxic stress can trigger hormones that wreak havoc on the brains and bodies of children, putting them at a greater risk for disease, homelessness, prison time, and early death. While the broader impacts of poverty worsen the risk, no segment of society is immune. Resilience, however, also chronicles the dawn of a movement that is determined to fight back. Trailblazers in pediatrics, education, and social welfare are using cutting-edge science and field-tested therapies to protect children from the insidious effects of toxic stress—and the dark legacy of a childhood that no child would choose.

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.