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BUILDING HOPE With Royale Lockhart, HOPE Facilitator and Champion with IdahoSTARS
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Join Ken and Michelle as they take a virtual trip to Post Falls, Idaho to visit Royale Lockhart, Lead Quality Child Care Consultant for Region 1, HOPE Facilitator and Champion. College of Education, Health and Human Sciences Center on Disabilities and Human Development, IdahoSTARS Project. As Ken pointed out, her name badge needs a drop down feature.
Royale shares some insight into best practices supporting families and children with the Four Building Blocks of HOPE – Relationships, Environments, Engagement, and Emotional growth – and their importance in helping children heal and grow into healthy adults. Positive childhood experiences can outweigh a child's ACES Scores (Adverse Childhood Experiences). The more of these positive experiences the more resiliency you will build.
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RESOURCES:
Strengthening Families Training Institute (SFTI)
https://idahochildrenstrustfund.org/training/strengthening-families-training-institute
Every year the Idaho Children’s Trust Fund convenes the Strengthening Families Training Institute (SFTI) which brings together over 200 child advocates, prevention practitioners, educators, and parents from throughout Idaho to learn how to prevent child abuse and neglect from national and local experts and to share their experiences with each other.
Strengthening families (IAEYC)
https://www.idahoaeyc.org/strengthening-families
Strengthening Families is a research-informed approach to increase family strengths, enhance child development, and reduce the likelihood of child abuse and neglect. It is based on engaging families, programs, and communities in building five key Protective Factors:
- Parental Resilience
- Social Connections
- Knowledge of Parenting and Child Development
- Concrete Support in Times of Need
- Social and Emotional Competence of Children
https://www.idahoaeyc.org/
IdahoSTARS
https://idahostars.org/
Idaho STARS knows Quality Child Care Matters. We work with child care providers to improve the quality of child care in Idaho. We work with families to recognize and find quality child care.
Sponsored by the Idaho Children's Trust Fund
https://idahochildrenstrustfund.org/
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