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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:
 The 2023 Calendars are now available for order. This free family resource is filled with helpful tips for parents and caregivers of children of all ages. It’s available in English and Spanish, and endorsed by The Texas Pediatric Society.
Calendars can be ordered in multiples of 100 with a maximum order of 500.
We’re kicking off the new year providing you with tools and resources to help strengthen Texas families! For the month of January, the PEI Communications Team has crafted content designed to give caregivers the tools and resources to help strengthen their families and help children thrive. This content can be shared on your organization’s websites, social media channels, and with your community - not only this month, but year round.
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This year's Partners in Prevention Conference will take place November 14th (Grantee Day), 15th, and 16th (Main Conference Days) at the Renaissance Austin Hotel in Austin Texas.
The 2023 PIP Conference Call for Proposals is now open, and we welcome your submissions.
PIP is a great venue to share your knowledge, skills, and research. Help shape our conference agenda by proposing learning sessions that are innovative, insightful, engaging, and would equip participants with tools or knowledge.
Visit our Call for Presenters page to learn more.
Questions? Contact pipcon@austin.utexas.edu.
Keeping Them Safe While your Kids Get Their Zzz's
Date: February 9th, 2023
Time: 9:00 A.M. - 10:00 A.M. CST
Register
Sleeping like a baby should always be safe! This training will focus on clearly defining Safe Sleep, the methods to help an infant sleep safely, the risk factors/safe issues associated with unsafe practices, and the nuts and bolts for having conversations with parents/caregivers about safe sleep that are engaging, focused, evocative and facilitate safe sleep practices.
One (1) Social Work CE credit/contact hour will be provided for this event after evaluation feedback is received.
About the Speakers
Kathryn Sibley, Director, Prevention and Early Intervention Office of Child Research and Safety.
Kathryn and her team provide evaluation, data, and technical assistance to support quality outcomes across all PEI programs. This includes significant cross program work with program staff, higher education, other state agencies and stakeholders.
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Sergio Martinez, Lead Program Specialist, Prevention and Early Intervention Office of Child Research and Safety.
Since 2018, Sergio has been a part of PEI working for the Office of Child Safety (OCS); he is currently the Lead for the OCS. As the Lead, Sergio oversees the data collection by Office of Child Safety Staff for the legislatively required Annual Report, analysis of the data collected, and collaborate to complete the Annual Report for each fiscal year.
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  Achieve OnDemand: Building Engaging and Collaborative Relationships with Families (Self-Paced Course)
As a home visitor, building strong relationships that support each member of the family’s growth and development is essential to your job. Whether establishing a relationship between parent and child or home visitor and parent, the principles and best practices are the same. By establishing a long-term relationship with families, you can model ways to interact that parents can adopt with their children. This course offers practical ways you can relate to parents that will motivate them to stay engaged with you.
Be The One in the Fight Against Human Trafficking (Video)
Human trafficking is modern-day slavery. It is the exploitation of men, women, and children for forced labor or sex by a third-party for profit or gain. Texas is on the forefront of combating this hideous crime. In 2016 — in one of his first major initiatives — Attorney General Paxton formed the Human Trafficking and Transnational/Organized Crime Section (HTTOC), tasked with combating human trafficking across our state. Source: Texas Attorney General's Office - https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/initiatives/human-trafficking
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.
Reminder: Complete your Course Evaluations!
Courses in the PEI Learning Hub remain in a “Pending Evaluation” status until the course evaluation is completed. So get those evaluations finished!
 Essentials of Home Visiting: Understanding Substance Abuse through the Family Lens (Webinar)
Date: January 25th
Time: 12:00 P.M. - 1:00 P.M. CST
Register By: January 24th, 12:00 P.M. CST
How do our personal values and experiences impact the work we do? The qualities of being nonjudgmental, present, and an active listener will be covered as well as some potential barriers to active listening. This webinar complements the Basics of Home Visiting self-paced course.
Date: January 31st
Time: 12:00 P.M. - 1:00 P.M. CST
Register By: January 30th, 12:00 P.M. CST
The reflective supervision model offers supervisors and staff an opportunity to engage in a collaborative process that involves shared power, clear mutual expectations, and free-flowing communication. This webinar examines the reflective supervision model as a process between the supervisor and staff member that differs from administrative supervision. Administrative supervision is about “the work you do,” and reflective supervision is about “what the work is doing to you.” As a result of this webinar, you will more prepared and confident when participating in reflective supervision with your staff. This webinar complements the Supervising Home Visitors and Impact of Trauma in Supervising Home Visitors self-paced courses.
To Register: 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
 Part 3: Rethinking Mandatory Reporting: Options for Supporting
Date: January 25th
Time: 11:00 A.M. - 12:30 P.M. CST
Register
Registration is Open for Part 3 of the Pediatric Brain Health Initiative 4-part Series, Thinking Through Supporting and Mandatory Reporting. Part 1 and Part 2 of this series are also available to view here.
 Date: February 15th-17th
Location: AT&T Conference Center, Austin, Texas
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Perinatal health improvement is more important than ever. This year, TCHMB is inviting other state Perinatal Quality Collaboratives to the 2023 Summit to share lessons learned and to collaborate on making a collective impact on birth outcomes in the U.S. The 2023 Summit Theme is "Social Determinants of Health and How They Impact Maternal and Neonatal Health Outcomes."
The “Big Five” represent 40 percent of births in the nation: California, Illinois, Florida, New York and of course, Texas. Louisiana will also be represented through the 2023 keynote speaker.
This is your chance to network and learn how to improve patient care and health outcomes through the lens of societal factors. Topics covered will include:
- What are Social Determinants?
- How to Recognize and Assess Social Needs
- How to Address Social Needs
- Bringing it Back to QI - How to Bring Social Determinants into QI and Close the Loop
The Miracle Foundation seeks Partners in the realm of family strengthening! The selected partner will leverage Miracle Foundation’s Thrive Scale technology to power their work towards keeping families together.
Funding Amount: Miracle will provide 1-3 applicants a range of $75,00-$300,000 over 3 years.
Who Should Apply: Any program, organization, or entity providing family strengthening or preservation services to prevent separation and entry into out-of-home care in Texas. Can work towards any of the following types of prevention:
- Primary - prevent or mitigate crises before reaching the point of family separation and getting involved with Child Protective Services (CPS) and foster care system.
- Secondary - families are already at risk of separation based on certain risk factors and may be involved with CPS. Prevent children from facing court-ordered removal and entering foster care.
- Tertiary - children and families are - or have been - involved with CPS and went through foster care. Keeping families and children from returning to the system (reduce recidivism).
This money can go towards whatever is needed to make a program successful: staffing, training, marketing/PR, technology, fundraising, outreach, service delivery or more.
Successful applicants will be innovative in their approach, center families, children, and people with lived experience at the core of their work, and highlight community and collaboration with other stakeholders to avoid duplication or siloed efforts. Programs should be supported with evidence and data, show potential to scale, and be able to demonstrate sustainability after funding ends.
Applications Due: February 3rd, 2023
Questions?
Reach out with any questions or concerns about this opportunity to Audria Choudhury at audria@miraclefoundation.org.
 The Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Texas System of Care, in collaboration with the Texas Institute for Excellence in Mental Health at the University of Texas at Austin, is excited to announce the return of the Texas Mental Health Creative Arts Contest in 2023.
The contest will accept individual and group submissions through March 10, 2023.
The contest seeks to raise awareness of mental health experiences, challenge stigma, and provide an opportunity to express complex emotions through creative outlets.
For more information, including past winners, rules, and how to submit artwork, visit the Texas Mental Health Creative Arts Contest webpage.
 The Texas Institute for Excellence in Mental Health is looking for a family leader contractor.
Preferred qualifications:
- Someone who has a child within the age range of 0-8.
- It would be helpful if this person is bilingual in Spanish, but is not required.
- It would also be helpful if this person has experience in research, working in a parent lead role, and/or with collaborative work.
This contractor will assist the Thrive team in their research and planning work on a year-end project which may include: researching and collecting information about early childhood systems and services in Texas; identifying and potentially presenting to others about ways that communities can better engage families; developing written communication; and/or generating ideas for questions for early childhood coalitions to support and expand their work.
Please reach out to Holly.Gursslin@austin.utexas.edu or Jenny.Baldwin@austin.utexas.edu for more information.
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