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The North Carolina CCR+R School Age Initiative created this two-part resource to equip school-age staff who are supporting children experiencing homelessness. Part I, Understanding School Age Homelessness, explores the types of homelessness and its effects, and how to enter into conversations about this with children and families. Part 2, Helping Students and Families Thrive, explores ways to provide safe OST spaces, and how to provide academic and social-emotional support. It also includes information on McKinney-Vento supports and information on eligibility for subsidized child care assistance. While this toolkit was designed for NC providers, it can be a helpful tool for other states. This resource supports equity. This resource supports resiliency.
These panelists from Harvard's Center on the Developing Child bring the latest research to explore how racism impacts children's development and contributes to unequal access to opportunity. They share strategies that promote child development and dismantle system barriers. While this is focused on early childhood, there are implications for OST. The panel shared the link to the Child Opportunity Index that measures and maps the quality of resources that matter for children, like quality early childhood education and schools, safe housing, access to healthy food, parks, and clean air. It can be found here. This resource supports equity.
This webinar features Shawn Ginwright from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and leaders from Philadelphia on healing-centered engagement. They explore how healing-centered engagement focuses on caring relationships and is asset-based so we approach youth in ways that recognize their resiliency. Philadelphia is training all school staff, and also reaching out to community and faith-based organizations, on how to implement healing-centered engagement for youth, as well as the adults who work with them. This resource supports resiliency. This resource supports equity.
This updated policy statement from DHHS and the U.S. Department of Education underscores the urgency in improving services for children with disabilities. It includes the science-based benefits and the legal foundation for inclusion, recommendations for state policies to strengthen inclusion, as well as state examples of promising practices. This resource supports resiliency. This resource supports equity.
Today's youth are experiencing unprecedented levels of stress and anxiety. One way that schools and other youth organizations can provide support is by implementing a wellness room for kids who need space to sort out their emotions. This issue brief outlines benefits and offers tips for creating and using wellness rooms. This resource supports resiliency.
This issue brief from the Children's Equity Project examines data from the Yale CARES survey of center-based, home-based, and informal child care providers, including 82,000 in 2020 and 50,000 in 2021. The survey found that 45% of providers reported depression, 27% reported stress, and 60% of providers reported increases in children's externalizing and internalizing behaviors. This resource supports equity. This resource supports resiliency.
This issue brief is designed to raise understanding and awareness of restorative justice practices and identify ways after school leaders can integrate them. It provides definitions, principles of restorative justice, strategies for how they can be applied in afterschool programs, and resources. There is also a related webinar on Restorative Justice Practices in Afterschool Programs with experts from CA and FL who are researchers and who are applying restorative justice practices in schools and afterschool programs. See: Restorative Justice Practices in Afterschool Programs
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While Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) populations are the fastest growing racial group in the United States, their unique challenges are not adequately studied or supported by current policies. This issue brief reviews the diversity and growth of various AANHPI populations and a beginning discussion about policies and programs to consider adopting. This brief includes a map of distribution of the nearly 3.7 million AANHPI children by state, including which states have added AAPI studies curriculum.
This issue brief shares a model about a collaboration between Nevada Department of Health and Human Services and Boys and Girls Club (BCG) to pilot behavioral and mental health services for youth in grades 1-12 participating in 13 out-of-school programs. This model used initial SAMSHA funding to bring 2 counselors as well as graduate practicum students into the BGC to provide social-emotional learning, behavioral, and mental health services and to train staff on trauma-informed care, suicide, substance abuse response, and how to make referrals. These supports will be sustained as they fast-tracked the process of Medicaid credentialing. This resource supports equity.
This webinar by the Grantmakers for Education OST Impact group shares how funders, adults, and peers in OST spaces can provide support to LGBTQ+ youth, especially in the current context of attacks on LGBTQ+ identities. Panelists from the Trevor Project, Horizons Foundation, and an LGBTQ+ organization in Florida shared data on mental health concerns and suggestions for ways to create safe spaces in OST programs. A robust list of resources are also included. This resource supports equity.