STEPPING UP FOR KIDS

The new KIDS COUNT report by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, STEPPING UP FOR KIDS, highlights the importance of kinship care and outlines how state governments and communities can help these relatives.  Nationally, there are 2.7 million children cared for by extended family members and close family friends.  In New York, about 153,000 children are living in this type of household, which represents about 3 percent of all children 18 years and younger in the state. For more information, view the national report, Stepping Up for Kids <http://bit.ly/JgZbt7> and a New York state brief, Kinship Children in New York State <http://bit.ly/K7S1bR> . A New York State Quick Fact Sheet <http://bit.ly/JPZWfw> is also available.

Dads Take Your Child to School New York Informational Webinar

Date: Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Time: 3:00-4:30pm
Participants: This webinar is designed to introduce new organizations, schools and Head Start programs to the event, and to welcome back those that have participated in previous years.
Webinar Registration: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/292889609
This webinar is hosted thanks to the New York State Community Action Association.

Last year, over 200 schools and Head Starts across New York State, numerous community and statewide partners, and over 9,000 dads participated in this event. Throughout educational institutions from Niagara Falls to New York City, father involvement is growing around New York. To read more about what happened last year, you can download the 2011 DTYCTS Annual Report <https://sites.google.com/site/dtyctsny/press> . As well, you can see newsclips and videos <https://sites.google.com/site/dtyctsny/press>  from last year, and last year’s map of participating sites <https://sites.google.com/site/dtyctsny/maps/2011-participating-sites> .

Dads Take Your Child to School 2012 will take place statewide on Thursday, September 20, 2012.
 

NYSPEP Presents "The Environment of Childhood Poverty" with Gary Evans

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We know that poverty is bad for children and families, but why? This lecture will suggest that part of the answer to this question is poor children face a bewildering array of multiple risk factors that frequently converge on the same subset of families. Social and physical risks converge to exacerbate stress. Data on risk exposure, its consequences, and some ideas about what we might do about it will be discussed. 

Professor Evans is an environmental and developmental psychologist interested in how the physical environment affects human health and well being among children. His specific areas of expertise include children's environments, the environment of childhood poverty, cumulative risk and child development, environmental stressors, and the development of children's environmental attitudes and behaviors.

Afternoon Workshop:

Addressing the Environment of Poverty through the Lens of the Protective Factors

This workshop will include the background information on the Strengthening Families approach with an introduction to the protective factors, sharing some program strategies for implementation, and introduce the Protective Factor Survey (PFS).

Special Presentation Following the Semiannual Meeting:

Parenting Educator Credential Orientation will take place from 3:00-5:00PM. The orientation is free and open to the public. All registered attendees are invited to stay.