Military service members and their families face many challenges related to deployments, frequent moves, family transitions, spouses changing jobs, and kids changing schools. It is all part of the “normal” family lifecycle of a military family. However, what happens when that normal lifecycle is interrupted due to added stress and turmoil of a natural disaster or hazard that comes into play for military families? It is then time to dig deep for resilience techniques and practices to help military families persevere.
Pt. 2 Vlog Series: Centers for Independent Living – Transitioning to Adulthood. Centers for Independent Living (CILs) are community-based centers that are run by and for people with disabilities and offer a broad range of services to empower and enable people to stay in the community (ACL, 2020). Watch and listen…
Across the country preschools and childcare centers are working to serve children while also managing the risks of spreading COVID-19. Many centers have adjusted their drop-off and pick-up procedures to minimize exposure. Some programs require families to stay in the car while a staff member helps the child in and out of the vehicle. Still, others ask that children be dropped off at the entrance. These new procedures may impact a child’s behavior and create stress for families. In this blog post, we focus on strategies that may help create smoother drop-off and pick-up routines.
Nutrition education is important to prevent disease and to not only increase longevity but the quality of life. One major obstacle to educating military families about good nutrition practices is nutrition literacy.
Do you want to build stronger relationships with families? Do you struggle to have conversations with families around sensitive or difficult topics? Do you need ideas for how to meaningfully involve families in early childhood? Building positive relationships with children’s families that affirms their culture and identity is an important part of an early childhood practitioner’s job.
The rise in overweight and obese adults has led to devastating increases in rates of heart disease, stroke, and cancer. These worrying statistics are the source of much anguish for public health professionals who worry about nutrition literacy remaining low in the United States.
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