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Communication Toolkit and materials update - Jackie

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Communication Toolkit and materials update - Jackie

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We are in the final stages. The Communication Toolkits will be ready soon!

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Catholic Charities and Children's Village have agreed to sponsor parents to help them grow as leaders.

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- April 21st at Apoyo; COVID-19 vaccinations being distributed at 5 PM.

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2021 WA Legislature Update with Start Early WA

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2021 WA Legislature Update with Start Early WA

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They will be at Investing in Children Coalition meeting tomorrow (see Padlet link below for more info)

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Fair Starts for Kids (side by side comparison, House and Senate versions)

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Fair Starts for Kids (side by side comparison, House and Senate versions)

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Please follow this link to sign in to today's meeting:

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Please follow this link to sign in to today's meeting:

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Please sign in for today’s meeting. Questions? Please contact us at forthekids@yakimavalleycf.org

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Strengthening Families: Resilience and Empowerment Workshop

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Strengthening Families: Resilience and Empowerment Workshop

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Saturday, April 17th & Saturday, April 24th, 2021

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HMG Integration Team February Meeting Minutes

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HMG Integration Team February Meeting Minutes

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One Vax, Two Lives Communication Toolkit

This communication toolkit (accessible via Google Drive) is designed to provide you with communication materials, including social media content, and a comprehensive list of medically vetted answers to FAQs about the COVID-19 vaccine during pregnancy. Currently, we have content in English, Spanish, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese, Bulgarian. We are adding more languages on an ongoing basis.
Thank you to our partners at One Vax, Two Lives for creating this toolkit! Visit their website to learn more.
Vax Into Summer Promotional Materials
Social Media Toolkit
Help us promote our Vax into Summer campaign with your networks! This social media toolkit includes shareable images and messaging that you can use on your own social media and communications channels:
"Dear Parent" Letters
These letters are for clinics and health care providers to send out to the parents or caregivers of their pediatric patients. These letters come in several languages and can be downloaded below as editable Word Documents:
COVID-19 Vaccines for Adolescents: What it means for providers
This flyer provides health care providers with information and resources that they can use to ensure adolescents ages 12 and up get immunized against COVID-19 and receive all other vaccinations they are eligible for:

Vax To School Promotional Materials

Provider Toolkit for Childhood Immunizations: This toolkit is for general health care providers. The toolkit includes links to resources, a parent letter for children 4 to 6 year olds and social media posts for childhood and COVID-19 vaccines.

Childhood Vaccination Toolkit for Schools: This toolkit is for school and school nurses. The toolkit includes links to childhood vaccination resources, sample letters for parents/guardians and social media posts for childhood and COVID-19 vaccines.
Social Media Toolkit
Help us promote our Vax to School campaign with your networks! This social media toolkit includes shareable images and messaging that you can use on your own social media and communications channels:
"Dear Parent" Letters
These letters are for clinics and health care providers to send out to the parents or caregivers of their pediatric patients. These letters come in several languages and can be downloaded below as editable Word Documents:
"Dear Provider" Letter
This letter is for clinics and health care providers. See below to download an original version or editable Word Document version of this letter:
"Dear Administrators/School Nurse " Letters
This letter is for school nurses, administrators and staff. See below to download an editable Word Document version of this letter:

Stay Safe, Stay Healthy, Stay Vaccinated! Promotional Materials
Social Media Toolkit
Help us promote our Stay Safe, Stay Healthy, Stay Vaccinated! campaign with your networks! This social media toolkit includes shareable images and messaging that you can use on your own social media and communications channels:

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This communication toolkit (accessible via Google Drive) is designed to provide you with communication materials, including social media content, and a comprehensive list of medically vetted answers to FAQs about the COVID-19 vaccine during pregnancy. Currently, we have content in English, Spanish, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese, Bulgarian.

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Help Me Grow Washington promotes early childhood development and ensures all children reach their full potential.

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NOTE for today: Full group meeting is from 10:00-11:00; Leadership Team from 11:00-11:30

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Link to the Family Resource Navigator posting: https://smrtr.io/5k4gr

Please share with anyone who might be interested.

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The Growth Gap - Yakima Herald Series, Janelle Retka

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The Growth Gap - Yakima Herald Series, Janelle Retka

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Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

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Since 2014, the Summit on Improvement in Education has developed a vibrant learning community by engaging diverse groups of educational professionals.

At a convening of experts in continuous improvement methodology hosted by Carnegie's Advancing Teaching-Improving Learning identified four essential organizational conditions for continuous improvement to take root and thrive.

This essay proposes science of improvement research and the idea of a networked improvement community as an alternative R&D method to create the purposeful collective action needed to solve complex educational problems currently faced.

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The Six Core Principles of Improvement | Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

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Since 2014, the Summit on Improvement in Education has developed a vibrant learning community by engaging diverse groups of educational professionals. At a convening of experts in continuous improvement methodology hosted by Carnegie's Advancing Teaching-Improving Learning identified four essential organizational conditions for continuous improvement to take root and thrive.

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Why Early Learning is Important:

Research has shown that children who are able to participate in early learning programs perform better throughout their years of schooling. Early learning programs focus on six areas of kindergarten readiness:

Social-Emotional - Children do better in school when they can regulate their emotions, establish positive relationships with others, and constructively participate in group settings.

Physical - The early years are important for the development of fundamental gross-motor and fine-motor skills needed to be active learners.

Language - Children need to understand increasingly complex language and use language to express their thoughts, ideas, needs, and feelings.

Cognitive - Children are more successful in school when they have positive approaches to learning, and are able to attend, engage, and persist to solve problems.

Literacy - A child's progress in reading and writing is one of the best predictors of whether the child will function competently in school and in life.

Math - Research shows that math is the number one predictor of future success in reading and math.*

*Duncan, Greg. University of California, 2007. Early Childhood Longitudinal studies. "The strongest predictors of later achievement are school-entry math, reading, and attention skills. Early math skills have the greatest predictive power."

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Research has shown that children who are able to participate in early learning programs perform better throughout their years of schooling. Early learning programs focus on six areas of kindergarten readiness: Social-Emotional - Children do better in school when they can regulate their emotions, establish positive relationships with others, and constructively participate in group settings.

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The HMG National Forum is an exciting opportunity for HMG affiliates and their partners to network, learn from one another, and develop new and supportive connections across the HMG community. In its 14 th year, HMG National embraced thirteen years of experience hosting the Forum both in-person and virtually, and offered the best of all worlds:

1. In-Person Summit | Fort Worth, Texas
2. Virtual Event | Virtual Attendee Hub

In-Person Summit | October 11-13 | Fort Worth, TX

Co-hosted by the HMG National Center and HMG North Texas, the 2023 In-Person Summit featured learning intensives, offered by leading organizations around the country and HMG National Center staff. Learning intensives provided training and skill-building intended to take our HMG system-building work to the next level.

Virtual Event | October 17 | Virtual Attendee Hub

The Virtual Event offered affiliate-led breakout sessions we know and love, as well as role-based networking, HMG National Center update, keynote address, speed networking, and more. The Virtual Event shared affiliate-led strategies, ideas, tips, tricks, and cautionary tales, with breakout sessions focused on showcasing how HMG systems around the country are implementing the Model. All content from the Virtual Event is available to registrants on the virtual platform for 90 days following the event.

Thank you to the members of the
2023 Forum Planning Committee:

Carmen Wenger, HMG Alaska
Kelly Annelli, Connecticut Coalition Against Domestic Violence
Liz Randall, HMG Florida
Jessica Wood, HMG Maine
Mellody Buzalski, HMG Cass County, Michigan
Maureen Schmidt, HMG Ottawa, Michigan
Summer Merrick, HMG Onondaga, NY
Abigail Sharp, HMG North Texas, TX
Miranda Holmes, HMG North Texas, TX
Tiffini Smith, HMG North Texas, TX
Jodi West, HMG Utah
Keri Nguyen, HMG Washington
Jackie Litzau, HMG Washington
Susan Steinhofer, HMG Wisconsin

2023 Keynote Speakers

In-Person Summit Keynote

Lori Fresina is the Vice President and Executive Director of Voices for Healthy Kids, American Heart Association. Through her leadership, direction and dedication, Lori has made a significant contribution to making communities healthier and more equitable through effective public policy.

As co-creator of the Power Prism® advocacy framework, Lori's expertise includes campaign planning, equitable coalition practices, community mobilization, training, grassroots development, and media advocacy.

Before joining the American Heart Association in March 2019, Lori had long stints in public interest advocacy as senior vice president and New England office director for M+R Strategic Services, Northeast Regional Advocacy Director for the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, and a variety of roles with American Cancer Society.

Lori received a bachelor's degree in communications from Emerson College and a master's degree in public policy and citizen participation from Tufts University.

Voices for Healthy Kids provides the staffing and support structure for The National Collaborative for Infants & Toddlers.

Virtual Event Keynote

Help Me Grow Virtual Forum 2022

The 13th Annual HMG National Virtual Forum consisted of four half-days of presentations, featuring 94 speakers and 64 sessions. Co-hosted by Help Me Grow Florida, the agenda featured HMG affiliate-led content sessions, national speakers, poster presentations, and networking opportunities.

Help Me Grow Virtual Forum 2021

The 12 th Annual HMG National Virtual Forum consisted of four half-days of presentations, featuring 107 speakers and 72 sessions. Co-hosted by Help Me Grow Indiana, the agenda featured HMG affiliate-led content sessions, national speakers, poster presentations, exhibitor booths and networking opportunities. Sessions this year included content focusing on advancing equity, Infant mental health principles, strategies for universal developmental screening, and the importance of centering parents and families in our collective work. In addition, this year's Forum featured three Keynote and Plenary Addresses: Dr. Dina Lieser from the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Dr. Wendy Ellis of the Center for Community Resilience, and Dr. David Williams from the Harvard School of Public Health.

As a safe alternative to coming together in person, the HMG National Center hosted a Virtual HMG Forum on September 20-23, 2021.

Help Me Grow Virtual Forum 2020

The 11 th Annual HMG National Virtual Forum consisted of three half-days of presentations, featuring approximately 12 hours of content. Sessions this year included content focusing on Child Health Provider engagement, Infant mental health principles, Strategies for connecting with and supporting indigenous and tribal communities, and the importance of centering parents and families in our collective work. In addition, we were delighted to welcome again, our 2019 HMG National Forum Keynote, Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, for an engaging, moderated session to provide her expertise in the context of our current public health crisis, COVID-19, and our national movement for a more equitable society, in the context of Help Me Grow.

As a safe alternative to coming together in person, the HMG National Center hosted a Virtual HMG Forum on August 10-12, 2020 via Zoom Webinar. Access the recordings, slides, and materials from all sessions below.

Materials and recordings of the 2020 Virtual Forum are available to affiliates of the HMG National Network here.

Help Me Grow Forum | Archives

Questions about the HMG National Forum?

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Annual Help Me Grow National Forum | Help Me Grow National Center

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Help Me Grow National Forum Week 2023 Co-Hosted with HMG North Texas The HMG National Forum is an exciting opportunity for HMG affiliates and their partners to network, learn from one another, and develop new and supportive connections across the HMG community.

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Washington Communities for Children (WCFC) is a network of coalitions dedicated to improving the wellbeing of children, families, and communities. Ten WCFC Regions across the state that have trusted relationships with over six-hundred organizations and individuals. Trusted partners include early learning providers, social service agencies, early intervention services, child welfare organizations, libraries, juvenile courts, school districts, public health agencies, higher education, families, and many others.

MISSION

Connecting local and statewide efforts to improve the wellbeing of children, families, and communities.

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Washington Communities for Children (WCFC) is a network of coalitions dedicated to improving the wellbeing of children, families, and communities. Ten WCFC Regions across the state that have trusted relationships with over six-hundred organizations and individuals.

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First week of May at Children's Village:
- May 3rd 6:30 - 7:00 PM
What info needed from this group?

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Why Liberatory Design?
We are all living in challenging times that our past experience and training has not sufficiently prepared us for. Too often, well intentioned equity efforts do not succeed-and even produce unintended consequences. This can lead to frustration, hopelessness and cynicism.
It's important to consider why so many equity efforts stall or fail to achieve intended outcomes:

They do not employ a deep enough equity lens-for example, a diversity and inclusion focus as opposed to interrogating deeper causes produced by systemic oppression.

They take the form of traditional linear, hierarchical plans that focus on strategies, goals, timelines, metrics and accountability. These efforts don't recognize the messiness and complexity of the challenge, so they often are ineffective and, sometimes, even backfire.

They are created in the context of dominant white culture, in traditional structures (e.g. committees, task forces), or in teams that don't have an effective approach to the work. Common problems include:

group members unable to engage in authentic critical dialogue;

lack of trust, especially across role/power and identity difference, that undermines team efficacy;

the process doesn't bring forward sufficiently creative thinking;

urgency leads to hasty, misguided decisions;

creative and potentially powerful solutions are not accepted by leadership.

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Liberatory Design - National Equity Project

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Addressing equity challenges and change efforts in complex systems with liberatory design. Learn more about this process or register for an upcoming course.

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Join Zoom Meeting
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Meeting ID: 882 5472 0011

Dial by your location
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Across the nation, Help Me Grow offers families seamless access to community services and supports so they can easily connect to the resources they need, when they need them.

The Help Me Grow Washington network represents a growing, powerful coalition of communities and individuals invested in building an organized system of community resources to help children grow up healthy.

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The Help Me Grow Washington network represents a growing, powerful coalition of communities and individuals invested in building an organized system of community resources to help children grow up healthy.

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March Meeting Padlet (click the image below to go to last month's padlet)

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March Meeting Padlet (click the image below to go to last month's padlet)