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Live Programming

Coping Compass: Working in the Wake of School and Community Violence and Disaster

October 8 @ 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EDT
This webinar is designed to equip professionals who work with middle and high school students from military families with the skills and knowledge necessary to support students and communities affecte...

Learning Library

Reduce Your Stress Through Core Values

July 25
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Confronting Imposter Syndrome by Sharing Your Work

July 18
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Do Less of What Drains You

July 11
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Recent Blogs

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Exploring Learning Landscapes: Designing Environments to Promote Development for Young Children

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When caregivers provide positive and responsive caregiving, children demonstrate improved developmental skills including social emotional skills, (Kim & Kochanska, 2012). Developmentally supportive engagement between caregivers and children is often overlooked during daily activities and routines such as bedtime, mealtime, or riding in the car (Kim & Kochanska, 2012; Song et…

Securing the Future: How Social Security Survivor Benefits Support Children After a Parent’s Death

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Written by: Rachel Brauner, Program Coordinator, OneOp Lifespan Caregiving The loss of a parent is an unimaginable tragedy for any child, bringing with it not only emotional turmoil but also financial uncertainty. In such difficult times, Social Security survivor benefits can provide much-needed financial support to children. Understanding these benefits…

The Myth of the Objective

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Find out how focusing on ambitious goals and constantly measuring our progress towards them actually decreases the likelihood that we will reach our objective.
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A Framework for Deeper Community Engagement

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Frameworks like the Spectrum of Community Engagement to Ownership can help us sort out why we are engaging the community, how we are engaging them and what might be possible if we deepen that engagement.