Category: Joyful Together

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• May Newsletter- Joyful Together Early Care Education

  OhioGuidestone’s Institute of Family and Community Impact is all about helping to make school even more enJOYable! Learn more about Joyful Together-ECE (Early Care Education) in the May Newsletter below. May Newsletter What are IFCI’s Monthly Newsletters? Each month the Institute of Family and Community Impact an OhioGuidestone initiative releases research Newsletters to explore our innovations closely. We want to communicate our projects, innovations, and other happenings while strengthening our relationship with the community in an accessible manner. Read the May Newsletter that closely explores our community of learners by clicking the link above! About our Joyful Together Early Care Education Release Joyful Together is an evidence-based program that limits toxic stress in children while enhancing childhood resiliency and adding positive childhood experiences. Joyful Together uses play to enhance relational health through everyday moments between children and early childhood care and education professionals. This program equips early childhood educators and administrators with tools to implement the model into routines within early childhood education centers and classrooms. In this Newsletter we explore Joyful Together Early Care Education- currently funded by Starting Point and the J.M. & H.W. Stielau Foundation. Sneak-Peek Inside the Joyful Together Early Care Education Newsletter Exploration of Joyful Together Early Care Education May Reading Corner: In this release we introduce you to our book Joyful Together for Early Childhood Educators. Joyful Together is the Institute’s research-based model that builds childhood resiliency and reduces toxic stress in children by enhancing student-teacher bonds with joyful play. Joyful Together ECE provides easy-to-do activities for Early Childhood Educators and explores the importance of joy, play, and relationships to early childhood brain development. Community Resources: Remember we work with the communities we serve! In each Newsletter release you will find some resources that might be of help to you or someone you know! Feedback We want to hear from YOU! Contact us with your suggestions and feedback on our Newsletter releases! Stay tuned to see your suggestions in future editions!

• March Newsletter- Community of Learners

  IFCI believes we must always center an US & WE approach to reach equity! Read more about our Community of Learners in our March Newsletter below. March Newsletter What are IFCI’s Monthly Newsletters? Each month the Institute of Family and Community Impact an OhioGuidestone initiative releases research Newsletters to explore our innovations closely. We want to communicate our projects, innovations, and other happenings while strengthening our relationship with the community in an accessible manner. Read the March Newsletter that closely explores our community of learners by clicking the link above! About our Community of Learners March Release Our Community of Learners are designed for community members from various fields and practices to gather together to learn how to better serve and equip families with the tools they need to build resiliency in a culturally sensitive and appropriate manner. In this Newsletter we explore our Joyful Together and Father’s Feelings Community of Learners sessions- currently funded by the ADAMHS Board of Cuyahoga County and the Ohio Department of Health. Sneak-Peek Inside the Community of Learners Newsletter Exploration of Joyful Together Community of Learners Exploration of Father’s Feelings Community of Learners March Reading Corner: In this release we introduce you to an article from the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University that explores learning communities and their importance. Community Resources: As you read about our US & WE approach to community resiliency & healing in this March Newsletter- remember we work with the communities we serve! In each Newsletter release you will find some resources that might be of help to you or someone you know! Feedback We want to hear from YOU! Contact us with your suggestions and feedback on our Newsletter releases! Stay tuned to see your suggestions in future editions!      

• December Newsletter- Father’s Feelings

  Father’s Feel, too! Read our December Newsletter #2 Father’s Feelings Edition! Father’s Feelings Newsletter What are IFCI’s Monthly Newsletters? Each month the Institute of Family and Community Impact an OhioGuidestone initiative releases research Newsletters to explore our innovations closely. We want to communicate our projects, innovations, and other happenings while strengthening our relationship with the community in an accessible manner. Read the December Newsletter that closely explores Father’s Feelings by following the above link. About our Father’s Feelings December Newsletter release Our Father’s Feelings study provides fathers with clinical paternal depression screening, brief coaching and intervention, and warm hand-off referrals to clinical and other social and community outlets to fathers in the perinatal phase. In this Newsletter we explore the Father’s Feelings 2020-2022 Statewide Project- funded by the Ohio Children’s Trust Fund. Sneak-Peek inside the Father’s Feelings Newsletter Exploration of the 2020-2022 Statewide Project- Ohio Children’s Trust Fund Reading Corner: In this release we introduce you to literature that closely relates to our Father’s Feelings study. You will also be introduced to the book that IFCI is reading as a team this month. Community Resources: We work with the communities we serve! In each Newsletter release find some resources that might be of help to you! Feedback We want to hear from YOU! Contact us with your suggestions and feedback on our Newsletter releases! Stay tuned to see your suggestions in future editions! Support our vision by learning our purpose & mission We at IFCI envision science and evidence-driven decision making by people, programs, and policy makers that contribute to communities full of resilient and healthy children, families and adults with limited adversity and abundant positive and benevolent experiences. Click here for all OhioGuidestone donation options. Donating to “IFCI” or “Institute of Family & Community Impact” directly supports Joyful Together and other innovations. Check out more from OhioGuidestone Learn more about OhioGuidestone’s community-based services and programs, especially for early childhood mental health, school based therapy, and family counseling.