Community Cafe Training: Learn to Host - Become a Parent Leader

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2015

10:00 AM - 4:00 PM

BUFFALO, NEW YORK

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Travel Reimbursement Available!

For More Information About NYSPEP Community Cafes, please visit www.nyspep.org/community-cafes

QUESTIONS? aspengler@jfsbuffalo.org

Strong Roots 2015 - Strengthening Parenting Competence and Confidence: Parental Roles and Protective Factors

New York State Parenting Education Partnership (NYSPEP) is pleased to announce our 2015 Strong Roots training institute topic Strengthening Parenting Competence and Confidence: Parental Roles and Protective Factors.

This professional development institute was designed to support you in helping all parents meet the needs of their children throughout your career. Learn how to apply the Protective Factors Framework in your work with parents who may face any number, or combination, of barriers and challenges that affect the parent's ability to fulfill his or her role, such as: challenges with physical or emotional wellbeing, physical challenges, family conflict, and poverty.

Judith Rae "Judy" Wolf

Judy Wolf, Extension Team Leader of the Family Development Program for Cornell Cooperative Extension Tioga County will present the plenary in six locations across New York state.

• Watertown (9/10) Registration closed
• Buffalo (10/07) Registration closes 9/24)
• Lake Placid (10/27) NEW DATE! (rescheduled from 9/24) 
• New York City (11/05)
• Owego (11/19)
• Latham (12/02)

Pre-registration is required. Visit www.nyspep.org/strong-roots for information and registration.

If you work with parents or families with children, this one-day institute may be for you. We'll review what developmental theories tell us about the parents' role, identify challenges parents face, and look at how the Protective Factors Framework can be used in our work with parents.

Even if you don't necessarily identify as a parenting educator, if you're providing support to parents in your role as a home visitor, family support worker, LCSW, family advocate, clergy, CASAC counselor, pediatric nurse, teacher, parent liaison, etc., you're welcome to attend.

NYSPEP's Strong Roots Last a Lifetime training institutes deliver high-quality content developed by experienced professionals. Topics focus on realities that families face and are associated with effectiveness in supporting parents. Topics are also aligned with the competencies for the statewide NYSPEP Parenting Educator Credential.

We hope to see you this Fall!

ALBANY 8/22: Free School Supplies Available for Enrolled K-12 Students

The Back to School Bash provides FREE school supplies to students in grades K-12 with proof of enrollment.

The event will be held on Saturday, August 22 from 10AM to 3PM at In Our Own Voices, 245 Lark Street, Albany, NY 12210.

For more information, please call (518) 432-4188.

NYSPEP Member Spotlight: Patricia "Tricia" Colon

Patricia "Tricia" Colon

Tricia is an active member of NYSPEP’s Steering Committee. She recently applied for the Tier II Parenting Educator Credential. Her application portfolio will undergo panel review and is pending approval.

Tricia started her career as an Elementary Education teacher. In 1993, she became a new mother and quickly grew her family to five children. Like many of the parents she observed while teaching, Tricia also sought guidance, direction, and support from her children’s teachers in order to raise her children in the best possible way.

In 2013, Tricia served as a Leave Replacement High School Counselor. Once again, she witnessed parents looking to school professionals for help in raising their teenage children. Through these experiences, decades of conversations with parents, and an awareness that loving a child and rearing a child are not the same, Tricia has developed a passion for supporting parents in raising healthy children through positive parenting.

Tricia holds a Master of Science in School Counseling from Long Island University and Master of Arts, Elementary Curriculum and Design from Columbia University. She has a conversational knowledge of Spanish and previously served as a substitute bilingual high school counselor in Huntington, NY.

"All my roads have led me to emphatically learn about raising healthy children and positive parenting so I can be a role model for others."

Judith M. Nordstrom: June 3, 1947 - April 17, 2015

Judith "Judy" M. Nordstrom

Judith M. Nordstrom, 67, of Townsend, MA, formerly of Truxton, NY passed away Friday evening, April 17th, 2015 with her children at her side. She was born in Concord, MA to the late Charles “Bud” Vidito and Elizabeth Bourke Vidito. She will be missed and lovingly remembered by her husband of 37 years, Gerald A. Nordstrom; brother: Bruce Vidito; sister: Elizabeth Farfaras; children: Eric Mannion, Tiffany Mannion, Kristy Mannion, Noelle Nordstrom, and Michael Nordstrom; grandchildren: David Mannion, Brianna Mannion, Erika Shufeldt, Danielle Mannion, Dana Mannion, Natalie Shufeldt, Jessica Mannion; and mother to Elizabeth Arcieri, Deborah Dwight, Diana Mendes, Carol Lincoln, Cynthia Nordstrom, Heather Dunlap, Jerry Nordstrom and 17 grandchildren. 

Mrs. Nordstrom was founder and Lead Educator of TEPE Training Institute, created the multi-modal “thematic module” concept in curricula design, unveiled at the Center for Parenting Education at the University of North Texas. She developed the F.A.C.T.S. Model, used in training parenting educators and the “Parenting Education Matrix”, a needs assessment and evaluation tool and served as an honorary member of the New York State Parenting Educator Partnership (NYSPEP) Steering Committee.  

A funeral with collation will be held at 11 am on Saturday, May 2nd, at the First Baptist Church in West Townsend, MA.   

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to New York State Parenting Education Partnership (NYSPEP). 

Please make checks payable to “Prevent Child Abuse New York”, fiscal agent for NYSPEP. Please indicate “NYSPEP / Judy Nordstrom Memory” in the memo field on the face of the check. 

Please mail donation to: 

NYSPEP Coordinator 

c/o Prevent Child Abuse New York 

33 Elk Street, 2nd Floor 

Albany, NY 12207

To read Judy's original NYSPEP Member Spotlight, please visit: 

http://nyspep.blogspot.com/2013/08/nyspep-member-spotlight-judy-nordstrom.html

NYSPEP Member Spotlight: Kate Provencher

Kate Provencher is a Program Specialist in the Division of Integrated Community Services for Families and Children, NYS Office of Mental Health. In this capacity she oversees several prevention and early intervention initiatives that promote the importance of children’s social emotional health and early identification of problems. These initiatives include the Early Recognition Screening Initiative and Project TEACH (Training and Education for the Advancement of Children’s Health).

Kate also serves on NYSPEP's Steering Committee. She is a member of NYSPEP's newly emerging workgroup that is exploring connections between parenting educators and pediatricians, as well as related practitioners and providers of health services for families with children.

Prior to joining the Office of Mental Health in 2013, Kate’s experience included working for over 20 years in community mental health as a clinician, supervisor and coordinator of Trauma Recovery services.

NYSPEP Renews Membership with NPEN

NYSPEP is pleased to announce our renewed Organizational Membership with NPEN, the National Parenting Education Network. NPEN provides a variety of resources for parenting educators and networking on the national level.

The 2015 Organizational Membership allows NYSPEP's website (www.nyspep.org) to be listed on NPEN's website. Up to five NYSPEP representatives are granted access to post to the NPEN list-serve. The representatives are also eligible to join NPEN Committees if they wish.

The following NYSPEP Steering Committee members have been selected to represent NYSPEP's Organizational Membership with NPEN in 2015:

• Tim Hathaway, Prevent Child Abuse New York
• Liz Hood, New York State Education Department
• Susan Perkins, New York State Council on Children and Families
• Deirdre Sherman, New York State Office of Children and Family Services / Children and Family Trust Fund
• Rebecca Widrick, New York State Council on Children and Families

Two additional NYSPEP Steering Committee members are currently serving on the NPEN Council:

• Meg Akabas, Parenting Solutions and author of 52 Weeks of Parenting Wisdom
• Judith Rae "Judy" Wolf, Cornell Cooperative Extension, Tioga County

NPEN is committed to the advancement of the field of parenting education. For more information, please visit www.npen.org/.