Building Community Resilience: Continued

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Early Childhood Notes

Desired Programs/Practices:

• Pay early educators adequately
  
• Celebrate successes
  
• Support groups for special education families
  
• Administrative support
  
• Professional self-care
  
• Compensation for self-care
  
• Adequate childcare in Pacific County
  
• ACEs training for parents
  
• Recognition for early educators as early prevention
  
• Executive function training for families
  
• More specialists coming into early childhood education facilities: counselors, health care, mental health
  
• Post-partum support for moms and dads
  
• Respite care for foster families
  
• Transportation
  
• Mindfulness practice
  
• Relationship building classes/parent partnerships
  
• ACEs training for all staff
  
• Classes for parents to learn how to increase resiliency in their children's life
  
• Quality health care, especially for referrals on development concerns
  

Possible Supports/Collaborations:

• Help with parenting classes: WellSpring
  
• Community café has a pediatrician come talk about early childhood development and health, referral outreach for identified children: Columbia Memorial Hospital, Sarah Scott
  
• Foundation for Healthy Generations will be training the trainers on implementing the NEAR @ Home toolkit for conversations with parents and their ACEs history. Similar to home visiting, but involves more planning: Foundations for Healthy Generations, Laura Porter