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Our weekly e-newsletter to providers combines grantee resources, stories of interest, exclusive educational opportunities, and grant information. In this issue:
 We've added two new Breakout Sessions!
That's right! Partners In Prevention is offering the following new sessions for attendees.
- Moving Beyond the ACES: What Showing Up Really Looks Like
- Media as a Risk Factor
Already registered? Click here and add them to your agenda!
The 2022 Partners in Prevention Conference will take place September 14-15, 2022 at the American Bank Center in Corpus Christi, Texas! The event will be geared toward in-person attendance with limited session selections offered via livestream.
About the Partners in Prevention Conference
The Partners in Prevention Conference is the largest annual gathering of prevention and early intervention professionals in Texas. The conference attracts parent educators, youth service providers, civic leaders, policy advocates, researchers, DFPS staff, Prevention and Early Intervention grantees, and others with a professional interest in child and family well-being, youth development, and juvenile justice. Attendees benefit from a wide variety of presentations, including but not limited to, lived experience from parents and youth, fatherhood engagement, ethics, diversity, equity and inclusion, program evaluation, home visiting, and positive youth development.
Note for PEI Grantees
If you are a PEI Grantee, you should have received unique registration codes via a separate email. Please have those codes available before you register. Can't find your code? Check your junk folder first, then email pipcon@austin.utexas.edu.
 August is National Breastfeeding Month!
While breastfeeding awareness is important year-round, for the month of August, we encourage you to promote breastfeeding awareness and education with your networks. In collaboration with Texas Health and Human Services Commission and the Texas Department of State Health Services, we've put together this toolkit with social media posts, resources, and graphics to help raise awareness about the importance and benefits of breast milk, while empowering and supporting all mothers in their breastfeeding.
Included in this toolkit:
- Messages to use in promoting breastfeeding awareness;
- Breastfeeding resources; and
- Sample breastfeeding awareness imagery to share and post.
The messages and links in the toolkit can be used as is or they can be customized in any way that works best for the month or year round in your community by directing to your prevention program’s information.
Thank you for continuing to support the children and families that live, work, and play in your communities!
 Achieve OnDemand
Achieve OnDemand: The Impact of Trauma in Supervising Home Visitors (Self-Paced Course)
Home visitors frequently encounter the effects of trauma in their work with individuals in a family and in the communities in which they work. It’s the role of the home visiting supervisor to equip, support and partner with home visitors to address these issues within the bounds of their role in a home visiting program. This course will further your understanding of the impact of trauma on family and community systems as encountered by home visitors. It also provides strategies for you as a supervisor to support a home visitor in addressing trauma while promoting practices of reflection and self-care.
Achieve OnDemand: Foundations of Infant Mental Health Practice in Home Visiting (Self-Paced Course)
Caring about the parent-child relationship is a primary purpose of home visiting with families. By using the power of observation, listening, and inquiry with a family, you activate a parent's learning so they use the same strength-based skills with their child. This course covers critical issues in infant mental health, including brain development and attachment. It provides practical ways home visitors can use observation and listening to strengthen the parent-child relationship. It also incorporates strategies for incorporating reflection to extend the 'learning together.’
To take these courses: Type or paste the course names above into the search bar on the PEI Learning Hub:
- Click on the course and select “request”
- On your transcript select “launch” to begin
- When the video is complete, go to "completed" courses in your transcript
- Select "evaluate" to provide feedback
For questions, contact PEITraining@dfps.state.tx.us.
 Access the Essentials of Home Visiting live webinars through the Essentials of Home Visiting Portal free of cost.
Use this link to register for any webinars from Start EarlyTM
Essentials of Home Visiting: Exploring Values and Beliefs Around Parenting (Webinar)
Date: September 13th
Time: 2:30 P.M. - 3:30 P.M. CDT
Register By: September 12th, 12:00 P.M. CDT
We all come to the table with our own beliefs about parenting. This webinar covers how to acknowledge and monitor those beliefs and address how they may impact the work we do with families. This webinar complements the Foundations of Infant Mental Health in Home Visiting self-paced course.
Webinar: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders - Impacts, Prevention and Support Strategies
Date: September 8th
Time: 10:00 A.M. - 11:30 A.M. CDT
Register
Join the Health and Human Services Commission’s Office of Disability Prevention for Children and the North Texas FASD for a free webinar that will discuss the newest science around fetal alcohol exposure and diagnosis, the prevalence in our communities today, awareness for practical prevention, and support strategies for families aimed at mitigating secondary conditions and disorders. The presentation will include a fun experiential learning activity.
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASDs) are some of the most preventable forms of birth defects. When discussing the potential harms of alcohol and other substance use, pregnant women need to have access to correct and understandable information provided in a non-judgmental, person-centered way. Families need beneficial guidance and resources as well as knowledgeable professionals to offer the best outcomes when raising children with FASD.
This webinar is intended for parents, providers who work with families, and others caring for infants and children throughout the state.
Presenters: Sherry Sellers Vinson, MD, MEd, and Carissa Dorris, parent and certified trauma-competent caregiver with North Texas FASD Network.
This free event will include live captioning and American Sign Language interpretation.
For questions, email Jay Smith at jay.smith@hhs.texas.gov or call 512-206-5100.
Virtual NFSN Standards of Quality Certification Hosted by The Center/TACFS
Based on the Principles of Family Support Practice and the Strengthening Families Framework and its research-based, evidence-informed 5 Protective Factors, the National Family Support Network has created a common language across different kinds of Family Strengthening and Family Support programs such as Family Resource Centers, home visiting programs, and child development programs.
This two-day virtual certification training details how the Standards can enhance work with families. Whether you are setting up a new program or strengthening an existing one, the Standards provide a blueprint for implementing best practice.
Participants who complete both session will receive a certificate from the National Family Support Network that is valid for two years.
For more information on this training, please see the NSFN website here: https://www.nationalfamilysupportnetwork.org/standards-training.
Dates/Times (this is a two-day training)
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Sept 20th from 9:00 A.M. – 3:30 P.M. CDT, and
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Sept 21st from 9:15 A.M. – 3:00 P.M. CDT
Registration deadline: Friday Sept 2nd , 2022.
Email calexander@tacfs.org with questions about this training
 Books Beginning at Birth is a statewide program that provides young children birth to age 4 and their families access to books and resources to support the development of early literacy skills and foster a love of reading. Learn more and sign up at: b3tx.org
Does your organization serve young children and families?
Become a Formal Partner or Family Reading Advocate to help families access these FREE resources:
Order your Activity Books for Summer and Fall! GetParentingTips Activity Books feature artwork, puzzles, and language learning activities, and each box comes with crayons for children. They're free to order and ship throughout Texas.
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