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Family Liaison Newsletter - Issue 2, Dec. 2024
Welcome to December! As the holiday season approaches, let's embrace the spirit of giving and togetherness. This month's newsletter is filled with exciting updates, holiday event reminders, and valuable resources to help you navigate this festive time.
Questions? Please contact Churchill Road Family Liaison, Nisha Bhatia, nbhatia1@fcps.edu, or by calling the front office before 11:00 a.m., Monday-Friday.
FCPS has many resources for families designed to increase engagement and partnerships with families while fostering academic success and social-emotional growth. The Family Resource Center offers free webinars, confidential consultations, a lending library, and resources to help adults support the success of all students, including those with learning challenges, special needs, and disabilities.The new FCPS Family Academy is a targeted outreach effort to empower and build capacity, connections, cognition, confidence, and awareness through interactive learning experiences, tools, and resources for families in FCPS through a one-stop approach.
December Webinars - Family Resource Center
Protecting Kids Against Digital Exploitation:
Keeping Kids Safe Online
December 13, 2024 10-11:30 a.m.
Join us for this important webinar presented jointly between Fairfax County Schools, Fairfax County Police Department, the Department of Justice, and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Register Here
Youth Mental Health First Aid (in-person course)
December 20, 2024, 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.
Youth Mental Health First Aid teaches you how to identify, understand, and respond to signs of mental health and substance use challenges among children and adolescents ages 12-18.
Register for Youth Mental Health First Aid (in-person course) 30 spaces available
Upcoming Activities
Grade 4-6 Book Club
Thursday, December 12, 2024, 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Dolley Madison Library
Calling all Grade 4-6 readers! Join us for Book Club! This month we will be discussing The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street!
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Friday, December 13, 2024, 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Dolley Madison Library
A chess group for beginner and intermediate players. Learn to play chess, then pair off to put your skills to work. All Ages, Beginner/Intermediate.
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Milk and Cookies with Santa
Saturday, Dec 14, 10 a.m.-Noon
Meet and greet Santa and other holiday characters and enjoy cookie decorating and snowy crafts. Milk and hot chocolate will be served by an adult. All children participating must register. Admission: $20/$15 MCC district residents. At the McLean Community Center. Register Here
Winter Block Party
Saturday, Jan. 4, 1-4 p.m.
Join us for the 4th annual Winter Block Party! Participants will enjoy entertainment, games, food, and a wide variety of amusements, crafts and more. At the McLean Community Center. Free Admission
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