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September 2009
This month's updates come from:
- Building Bridges for Children's Mental Health
- Colorado LINKS for Mental Health
- Blending and Braiding Your TANF (BBYT)
- Colorado Youth Development Team
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Building Bridges for Children's Mental Health
- Building Bridges continues to promote the adoption of social-emotional standards to promote the appropriate develop of Colorado students. Research shows that preparing students to be proficient in social emotional skills increases their capacity for learning, including: increased mastery of subject material, motivation to learn, commitment to school, and time devoted to school work. It also improves attendance, graduation rates, and prospects for constructive employment, while at the same time reduces suspensions, expulsions, and grade retention. Social emotional standards also have a role beyond academics. They can be an integral component of response to intervention (RtI) and positive behavior supports (PBS), which are being implemented in school districts throughout the state. When RtI/PBS is applied to behavior, it helps to promote a positive school climate and school safety.
For more information, please contact Barb Bieber at Bieber_B@cde.state.co.us
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Colorado LINKS for Mental Health
- Colorado LINKS for Mental Health's Workbook for Boards: Family and Youth Involvement is available online at: http://www.csi-policy.org/links/fyiworkbook/index.html . You may download the entire workbook or just the sections of interest to your policy making organization. There is also a self-assessment that your policy-making board may take, to help guide you through the process of improving your family and youth involvement
For more information, please contact Jewlya Lynn at Jewlya@csi-policy.org .
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Blending and Braiding Your TANF (BBYT)
- Blending and Braiding Your TANF has released a request for applications for technical assistance, due October 31st! In these tough fiscal times, there are dollars in Colorado that can be creatively used to fund services for low-income families. TANF may be braided with funding from other government and community partners to establish flexible, sustainable strategies to strengthen the safety net for low-income families. The Colorado Department of Human Service’s Colorado Works Division recently awarded a grant for the Blending and Braiding Your TANF (BBYT) initiative. In 2010, BBYT will provide technical assistance to eight collaborations as demonstration sites to create new capacity in Colorado for braiding TANF with other funding streams. In 2011, BBYT will disseminate what we've learned from the demonstration sites through tools and trainings for stakeholders statewide. To learn more about the RFA, please go to http://www.csi-policy.org/bbyt/
For more information, please contact Natalie Portman-Marsh at Natalie@csi-policy.org
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Colorado Youth Development Team
- The Colorado Youth Development Team is pleased to return this fall with customized training opportunities. All of these trainings are designed for a community-wide audience including youth and young adults (middle school aged – 25 years), youth serving professionals, adults who care for and about young people, community leaders & advocates. To RSVP for one of the trainings, call 303.863.2105, or e-mail registration@buildassets.org. Please provide your name, organization, e-mail address, phone number & which training you wish to attend.
- Arkansas Valley
- Creating a Community Where Young People Thrive: Exploring the Role We ALL Play in Supporting Positive Youth Development.
- October 14, 8:30am-3:30pm
- Arkansas Valley Regional Medical Center, 1100 Carson Ave, La Junta, Colorado
- Pueblo County
- Creating a Community Where Young People Thrive: Exploring the Role We ALL Play in Supporting Positive Youth Development.
- October 19 AND 20, 5-8:30 pm
- Pueblo County Conference Room, 1001 North Santa Fe, Pueblo, Colorado
- San Luis Valley
- A Web of Support: An Introduction to Strength-Based Family Engagement.
- October 27, 2-8:30pm
- Alamosa Family Recreation Center, 222 Old Sanford Road, Alamosa, Colorado
- Routt County
- Changing the Conversation and Creating a Community Where All Youth Thrive: Looking at Conversations Around Substance Use Through a Positive Youth Development Lens
- November 2, 1:30-5:30pm and 5-8pm
- Steamboat Springs Community Center, 1605 Lincoln Avenue, Steamboat Springs, Colorado
- La Plata County
- Youth Adult Partnerships – A Community Roundtable and It’s All In Your Head: A community roundtable and Positive Youth Development & the Adolescent Brain.
- November 8, 4:30-6:30pm and 6-8:15pm at the Durango Recreation Center, 2700 Main Avenue, Durango, Colorado; OR
- November 9, 4:30-6:30pm and 6-8:15pm at the Sun Ute Community Center, 290 Mouache Circle, Ignacio, Colorado
- Northeastern Colorado
- Thriving Youth! – Filling The Bag and Creating a Community Where Young People Thrive: Exploring the Role We ALL Play in Supporting Positive Youth Development.
- November 12, 1:30-5:30pm and 5-8:30pm
- Yuma Community Center, 421 E 2nd Ave, Yuma, Colorado
For more information call 303.863.2105 or e-mail katherine@buildassets.org. The Colorado Youth Development Team is a private-public partnerships of youth, family & community advocates, and youth serving professionals who have come together to infuse positive youth development strategies into state and local policies & infrastructure. For more information on the Colorado Youth Development Team, please contact Amy Engelman at Amy@csi-policy.org
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To be included in next month's LINKING YOU, please send us your planning or organization group's name, contact info, up to three bullets of one sentence each, and where possible, a link to more information.
Brought to you by the Colorado LINKS for Mental Health Initiative. For more information about the Initiative, please contact Jewlya Lynn at Jewlya@CSI-Policy.org.
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