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Resource Update*
February 2008
In This
Edition:
Please note: Some of the links say
"click here" because the length of the link interferes with our newsletters format. If you need the full link, please contact David
Beard at: beardd@wcpcan.wa.gov.
* The Washington Council for Prevention of Child Abuse & Neglect
(WCPCAN) was renamed the Children's Trust of Washington by an act of the legislature in 2007. However, WCPCAN is currently undergoing
an extensive branding process and a new agency name will be submitted in the 2008 session.
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 What's New at WCPCAN/Children's Trust
Washington State Named Inaugural
Member of New Strengthening Families National Network
Based on the advances Washington has made in the last year and
a half with our Strengthening Families initiative, Washington State has been chosen as one of 9 states nationally to participate in the new
Strengthening Families National Network. Washington’s work is help in high regard, and we are encouraged about
being able to access helpful TA, information and expertise from the Center for the Study of Social Policy staff and our peer states in the national
network though our participation. As part of its launch, the National Network will be releasing an electronic library of tools to expedite and
deepen Strengthening Families knowledge and implementation. For more information about the National Network, go to http://www.cssp.org/doris_duke/index.html.
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 Events
Bringing Baby Home™ Certification Training 2008
Calendar
April 30, May 1-2, 2008, Baltimore,
Maryland
October 17-19, 2008, Seattle, Washington
The Bringing
Baby Home Certification Training is designed to provide professionals with the skills necessary to teach families how to increase
relationship satisfaction and to guide healthy emotional and intellectual development in their children.
This research-based and research-tested program is taught
by Master Trainers, Carolyn Pirak, MSW and Joni Parthemer, MEd, and offered under the direction of John Gottman, PhD, and the Relationship Research
Institute of Seattle. The 3-day training authorizes professionals from a variety of disciplines (including educators, nurses, social workers, doulas,
midwives, childbirth educators and clergy to name a few ) to teach pregnant and parenting couples relationship skills essential for a successful
transition to parenthood. This program can be tailored to meet the needs of your community.
The Verizon Foundation has provided funding to NPower
to provide scholarships for training to nonprofits in the Puget Sound area
Thanks to this funding NPower can offer greatly discounted
private trainings to organizations that serve the Education/Literacy communities. We will offer trainings each month for only $10 per person for a
½ day class or $20 for a full day class until March 2008. If you are interested in attend either of these classes and your
nonprofit provides services to the Education/Literacy or Domestic Violence communities, then you can go to the NPower Seattle website to sign up. You
can use this link to go directly to our training
page.
“Discover
the Connections-Bridging Strategies to Prevent Child Injury and
Maltreatment” Conference
February
24th – 26th, 2008, Sacramento, CA
This conference, titled “Discover the Connections-
Bridging Strategies to Prevent Child Injury and Maltreatment” is a collaborative effort proudly sponsored by the California Departments of
Public Health (DPH) and Social Services (DSS); and the California Kids’ Plates Program at the Center for Injury Prevention Policy and Practice
(CIPPP). The conference offers a highly knowledgeable and experienced faculty who will guide attendees in the exploration of
research and practice on important topics, including: effective collaboration between unintentional injury and child maltreatment; implications of
early adverse experiences, lifelong health issues and risk factors; the affects of brain development on risk behavior in children and adolescents;
tools and strategies specific to public health and social service disciplines that help inform multilevel injury/maltreatment prevention efforts;
cross-disciplinary skills for attendees to increase awareness of and collaboration for each discipline’s objectives, challenges, strengths,
and resources. For more information or to register, go to: http://www.cce.csus.edu/conferences/cdph/08/
Child Welfare
League of America National Conference 2008
February
25th – 27th, 2008, Washington, D.C.
The Child Welfare League
of America (CWLA) is an association of nearly 800 public and private nonprofit agencies that assist more than 3.5 million abused and neglected
children and their families each year with a range of services. CWLA's 2008 conference will focus on the relationship between outcomes, integration,
and public policy. Attendees will discuss building public will and achieving positive change for children. For more information or to register, go
to: http://www.cwla.org/conferences/2008nationalrfp.htm.
SAVE THE DATE:
14th Annual Northwest Parenting and Family Education Conference
March 12th
– 14th, 2008, Vancouver, Washington
The Northwest Parenting
and Family Education conference provides 3 days of professional development for parenting and family educators, child care providers, and other
family serving professionals, where nationally recognized researchers and practitioners share cutting-edge information and techniques. Clock Hours
and Continuing Education Credits will be available. The theme for this year is Rx for Family Health. For more information, go to: http://capps.wsu.edu/parenting/.
Strengthening the Family Summit
March 25, 2008 from 9:00am-5:00pm, Seattle,
WA
The mission of the African American Healthy Marriage Initiative
(AAHMI) is to promote and strengthen the institution of healthy marriage in the African American community by engaging professionals, civic leaders
and community members.
The Strengthening the Family Summit will address the needs of
fragile families in the Seattle-Portland Area. This summit will bring together national and local speakers who will give context and practical tools
for working with fragile families and addressing healthy marriage, responsible fatherhood, and youth empowerment.
2nd Annual Black Marriage Day
Celebration
Saturday, March 29, 2008 at 6:00pm, Seattle,
Washington
Communities of Western Washington/African American Healthy
Marriage Initiative presents their annual awards and entertainment dinner. The theme
for this years event is “Them That Walk Together In Marriage.” For more information please go to http://www.devotedspouses.org/.
The 2008 PREVENT Child Maltreatment Institute:
Enhancing Leadership for Child Maltreatment Prevention
April 21-23 or April 22-24, 2008, Chapel Hill,
NC
This institute offers state of the art training to experienced
teams from across the country, who are working to stop child maltreatment before the first victimization or perpetration occurs.
The Institute will expand skills to lead evidence-based efforts in the primary prevention of child maltreatment and provide teams with an
intensive and supportive environment in which to work together with a trained coach on a prevention initiative. Participants can
expect to enhance core competencies in the primary prevention of child maltreatment at the state and/or national level. Check out
http://prevent.unc.edu/education/ for more information.
International Conference on Brain Development &
Learning
July 12-15, 2008, Vancouver, BC, Canada
The 2nd biennial international conference on "Brain Development & Learning: Making Sense of the
Science" will be held July 12-15, 2008 at the Sheraton Wall Center Hotel, Vancouver, BC, Canada. This interdisciplinary conference is devoted to
improving the lives of children by making cutting-edge research in neuroscience and child development understandable and applicable to educators,
therapists, physicians, parents, and others who care about children. Continuing education credits are available in many fields. Registration
scholarships are available and organizers will try to help people find inexpensive housing and/or home-stays. For information and registration: http://capwiz.com/zerotothree/utr/1/JFKUHZEUPJ/CJHIHZGIBF/1646431956.
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 Policy & Advocacy Information
Legislative Session in Full
Swing
The Washington State 2008 Legislative
Session began on January 14th and will go until mid-March (hopefully!). Children’s Trust/WCPCAN will be tracking
legislation regarding the prevention of child abuse and neglect, family support, early learning and home visiting. If you would
like to receive our weekly legislative update, please email David at beardd@wcpcan.wa.gov.
Evidence Based Home Visiting
We are still making some of the final changes to the House Bill
5830 report and we hope to have it available to legislators and stakeholders early in session. Early learning advocates are asking
for an additional $5 million to supplement the home visiting funds that we received last session. Check our legislative update for
progress.
Common Vision, Different Paths: Five States' Journeys
Toward Comprehensive Prenatal-to-Five Systems
Zero to Three and Pre-K
Now
This report focuses primarily on how states are
building comprehensive, coordinated systems for children, prenatal to age five. Five states -- California, Illinois, North Carolina, Oklahoma, and
Pennsylvania -- were selected for their diversity of programs and approaches. Through interviews with government officials, advocates, and other
early childhood leaders in these states, the shared vision and practical strategies that lead to success in building prenatal-to five systems were
investigated. Although no state has fully realized this vision, the discussions revealed four cornerstones of successful system-building efforts --
people, perspective, process, and product -- as well as seven recommended practices for advancing a prenatal-to five system.
State Children's Cabinets and Councils: Getting Results
for Children and Youth.
Pittman, Karen. Gaines, Elizabeth. Faigley,
Ian.
This paper serves as the
introduction for the State Children's Cabinets and Councils Series, a set of reports intended to capture and organize the decisions and experiences
of more than 20 children's cabinets and councils and present them against an emerging set of expectations about what the public and policy makers
could and should expect from them. State Children's Cabinets and Councils: Getting Results for Children and Youth delves into the "why" question. It
provides the rationale behind the Forum's assertion that children's cabinets and councils should be taken seriously, spells out how state children's
cabinets and councils are operating in ways that are consistent with the Forum's assumptions about change, identifies challenge areas, and introduces
the Ready by 21 Change Model that is used to frame the issue briefs and directory.
Improving Access to Child Care and Early Education for
Immigrant Families: A State Policy Checklist
A new technical assistance tool from the Center on
Law and Social Policy (CLASP) offers policy recommendations that states can employ to tackle immigrant access to high-quality child care and early
education programs. Some of the recommendations include building stronger relationships between the early education and immigrant communities,
designing programs and policies to address the needs of immigrant families and young children, and improving linguistic and cultural competency of
agencies and programs.
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 Marriage & Disabilities Research
New Report on the Under-Detection of Developmental
Delays in Early Childhood
Dr. Laura Sices provides insight into the
considerable under-detection of developmental delays in early childhood for the Commonwealth Fund's new publication, Developmental Screening in Primary Care: The Effectiveness of
Current Practice and Recommendations for Improvement. Findings show that there is an occurrence of delay in least 10 percent of children, but only
2.3 percent of children under age 3 are receiving early intervention services. Some recommendations include further research, resources and education
for physicians and residents in using developmental screening tools.
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 Sustainability & Resources
GRANT OPPORTUNITY: NIH—PARENTING CAPACITIES AND
HEALTH OUTCOMES IN YOUTHS AND ADOLESCENTS
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-07-061.html
This program announcement solicits research applications aimed
at increasing the parenting skills and capacities of parents and caregivers to improve the health outcomes of their young and adolescent
children. This is important because childhood, and particularly adolescence, is a time for the development of health habits that can last a
lifetimeThe long-term consequences of health habits and behaviors often become manifest in young adulthood and adulthood. Against this backdrop, it
is well documented that the probability of children and adolescents acquiring non-optimal health behaviors and developmental problems increases
significantly when their adult caregivers exhibit ineffective parenting skills and practices. Thus, interventions to increase parenting skills and
capacities and reduce high-risk behaviors should involve both parents and their children. Interventions targeting two or more risk factors that
indicate ineffective parenting practices (e.g., lack of appropriate parental monitoring, supervision, and communication, high family conflict and
disorganization, parental stress and depression, lack of parent-child bonding and negative discipline methods) that simultaneously focus on multiple
high-risk adolescent health behaviors (e.g., unhealthy dietary behaviors, inadequate physical activity, tobacco use, alcohol and other drug use,
sexual behaviors, and unintentional (e.g., accidents) and intentional behaviors (e.g., firearm related injuries), are fundamental to this initiative.
Interventions that target the reduction of a broad range of family risk factors and simultaneously build upon protective factors are highly
encouraged. Parents and similarly situated caregivers of children 10-to-18 years of age are the targets of this initiative.
Two Fact Sheets Detailing Federally Funded Early
Childhood Research and Technical Assistance Projects
"Selected Federally Funded Early Childhood Research
Projects" provides valuable information and descriptions of a broad range of early childhood research projects funded by the federal government.
"Federally Funded Early Childhood Technical Assistance
Projects" details federally funded projects providing technical assistance on child health, information products and services, resources for Head
Start grantees and partners, research and outcomes, social-emotional development and training. It also includes information about TA for infant and
toddler care with the National Infant and Toddler Child Care Initiative and the Early Head Start National Resource Center, which are both housed at
ZERO TO THREE.
Strategies: Strengthening
Organizations to Support Families and Communities
Strategies exist to serve you, your agency, and your community.
Through training, coaching, facilitation, and a caring individualized approach, we offer your community-based organization or public agency
best-practice strategies for greater success. From our historic roots with a sole focus on family resource centers in California, we have grown to
provide services to family strengthening programs throughout the nation. Regardless of where you are, Strategies will help you
champion a common vision of a world where children are cherished, where families strengthen their communities, and where those communities
thrive. http://www.familyresourcecenters.net/
GRANT OPPORTUNITY: Rosie’s For All Kids
Foundation
Every day in the United States, over 2,000 children are born
into poverty. In fact, 1 in 5 kids under the age of 6 in the U.S. lives in poverty, which can put these children at risk for
delays in emotional and cognitive development that can influence the course of their lives. Rosie's For All Kids Foundation is
committed to helping these kids through grants and initiatives that, since inception, have helped thousands of children in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
The Foundation has also provided funding for childcare tuition subsidies, renovations, equipment, supplies, playground upgrades, and staff
development through the Early Childhood Care and
Education grant program. In total, the Foundation has contributed over $28M to more than 900 child-related programs and
services.
GRANT OPPORTUNITY: The Pathways Within Roads to Reading Initiative
Grant
Eligible programs must have a strong focus on remedial reading
or a tutoring component. The organizational budget limit to be eligible is currently set at $95,000 annually. The community where the
organization is located must be an underserved community. It is not enough to have a certain number of families within a community that are
underserved to qualify. The population where the organization is located must be under 50,000. Book Bag programs, gifts and give-a-ways, events or
book club requests will not be granted through this program. Also School Districts, Lead
Agencies or umbrella agencies may not apply for donations. Each site within group agencies or districts must apply for the donations separately. The
books that are available through this program are appropriate for ages 0 to young adult. The books have hard and soft covers. Currently all the books
in this program are available in English only. March 15 (and October 15), annually, is the application deadline. Grant
Opportunity:
No Cost Nonprofit Marketing & Online
Fundraising Training
What can you learn about nonprofit marketing
in 60 minutes? You are invited to find out at Nonprofit 911's no cost training series. In addition, the ebook “Ten Deadly Fundraising Mistakes
and How to Avoid Them” is being offered by Sandy Rees at no cost about a subject that will interest everyone that cares about fundraising. For
more information, go to: http://www.fundsraiser.com/oct07/news.html.
GRANT OPPORTUNITY: DEL Child Care
Consultation
The Department of Early Learning has
initiated a Request for Proposals (RFP) for participation in a project to pilot approaches to child care consultation that will optimize young
children’s social-emotional development. For additional information, including who to contact with questions, go to:
http://www.del.wa.gov/Projects/Procurements_Contracting.shtml.
GRANT OPPORTUNITY: Mazda Foundation—Youth
Grants
Acting on a strong sense of responsibility
to give something back to the American communities in which it operates, Mazda established a philanthropic foundation, the Mazda Foundation (USA), Inc. As the corporate foundation of Mazda
North American Operations, it has awarded nearly $3.8 million to worthwhile causes across the United States since its inception and initial awards in
1992. A focus on youth and educational opportunities for minorities are common threads that run through many of the programs funded by the foundation.
Through its financial gifts to youth-oriented charitable programs, Mazda not only envisions a better future, but is taking meaningful steps to realize
that goal. Application Deadline: The foundation accepts applications annually from May 1 through July 1.
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 Home Visiting & Parent
Education Tools
Parents Anonymous Prevents Child Abuse & Neglect: New Research Demonstrates
Evidence-Based Program
The results of the new National Outcome Study of Parents Anonymous® conducted
by the National Council on Crime and Delinquency funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, U.S. Department of Justice can
be found here. This ground-breaking longitudinal study is the only
independent outcome research conducted nationwide to assess the impact of parent mutual support-shared leadership groups on child maltreatment
prevention. This research includes a national representative sample of diverse parents new to Parents Anonymous® followed over a six month
period. All of this evidence is based on standardized scales measuring key child maltreatment outcomes, risk and protective factors and was confirmed
in a qualitative study with Latino parents who attended Parents Anonymous® groups. Moreover, a comparison group was utilized to measure the
difference in outcomes between parents who did and those who did not continue to attend Parents Anonymous® groups over the six
months.
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Birth to Three & Early Learning News
W.K. Kellogg Foundation Report Offers New Solutions
to School
Readiness Challenge
With a fresh approach to school readiness
in mind, WKKF approached the design firm IDEO to help them navigate a complex challenge: envision tangible steps toward transforming early
education to ensure success for the next generation. IDEO approaches its work from a human-centered methodology. By focusing on users as experts,
they create change inspired by discussions with those most engaged in the final design. To that end, the IDEO team immersed itself in the world of
early childhood education, conducting observations in classrooms and the homes of parents as well as connecting to experts within and outside of the
WKKF network. The result is a set of ideas or “thought-starters” outlined in a new publication titled, Tangible Steps Toward Tomorrow; New Designs for Early Education, Ages 0-8. “The solutions focus around three areas: parents, teachers and schools. The
rationale for this is that these are the three major influences on the child’s education, and that they are also discrete and observable
groupings, as opposed to broader social or political issues,” the report reads.
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 Feature Topic: Early
Childhood Mental Health
Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation: An Evaluation Tool
Kit
For states, communities, agencies and programs investing in
early childhood mental health consultation and committed to quality data. This web-based resource combines a brief review of the literature and
current research addressing the effectiveness of early childhood mental health consultation with guidance for designing and implementing program
evaluation. It will help states, communities, and programs increase their capacity for high-quality evaluation of early childhood mental health
consultation in community-based settings. Can be found at this link.
Preschoolers Benefit from Mental Health Screening
Preschoolers can benefit when early childhood programs use a simple and inexpensive mental health screening process that flags emerging
socio-emotional problems that can affect future school success, according to research by FPG Child Development Institute at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill.
New "Focal Point" on the evolving expectations for the
children's mental healthcare system workforce.
The Portland, Oregon Research and Training Center's Winter 2008
issue of Focal Point explores how the increasing emphasis on using evidence-based practices and a "system of care" approach is driving changes in jobs
and roles related to children's mental health. Articles in the issue describe how agencies and providers of services and supports have responded to
these changes by creating new types of positions or by redefining existing roles. The
articles also focus on training and other workforce development activities that are required to support these kinds of changes in the
workforce.
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General Prevention
Risk Factors Associated with Child Abuse and Mitigating
Services: A Conceptual Framework.
Ledesma,
Andreana Denise
Evidence demonstrates that the incidence of child abuse is higher in families who experience certain risk factors, such as
domestic violence, poverty, and substance abuse disorders. In addition, research indicates that parenting attitudes and values are indicators of
abuse. These problems often occur simultaneously, and can reinforce each other. The purpose of this paper is not to determine the causal sequence.
Rather, the purpose is to identify services that address and alleviate these problems. The factors and services are classified in a conceptual framework.
Strengthening Rural Families: By the Numbers, Using Data to Drive Action on Behalf of Children and Families
Rubiner, Betsy
This issue highlights how data
collection and analysis can be incorporated into the Casey Foundation’s framework for rural family economic success: Earn It, Keep It, and
Grow It. Specifically, this brief portrays how data collection and analysis have underpinned decision-making efforts to improve the well-being of
low-income working families in Minnesota.
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Annoucements
Center for Early Education and Development
(CEED)—University of Minnesota 2008 Online Courses - Registrations Invited
Please consider enrolling in one or more of
our online courses in the new year to earn continuing education credit. Certificates are approved and issued by the College of Education and Human
Development at the University of Minnesota. Spring, summer, and fall course sessions are scheduled for 2008. The spring course sessions start
at various times throughout January, February, and March 2008. Print a 2008 schedule and informational flyer.
Association of Fundraising
Professionals Washington Chapter is looking for new members
Fundraising can be challenging even in the
best of times. The Association of Fundraising Professionals
Washington chapter is here beside you, helping you meet the challenges with tools that expand your skills, keep you current
with industry trends and techniques, uphold our profession’s ethical standards and advance the cause and contribution of philanthropy. AFP
Washington: Connecting Washington’s professional fundraisers.
“Keep Kids Safe” License Plates now can be personalized!
The Department of Licensing (DOL) now
allows you to personalize your “Keep Kids Safe” license plates. Please check out the DOL website for more
information on ordering and/or personalizing one of the “Keep Kids Safe” license plates http://www.dol.wa.gov/vehicleregistration/spkidssafe.html.
Funds generated by sales of the Keep Kids Safe specialty license plate will be used to increase awareness and
understanding of solutions to the problem of child abuse, neglect and unintentional injury by improving availability of and access to current
prevention information, programs, funding and strategies. It will also be used to educate parents/caregivers about primary and
secondary prevention services, programs and strategies.
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