The animation and accompanying resources have been created by a team of animators, children, teachers and clinicians (highlighting the importance of taking to someone when you need help) and is being taught to 5- and 6-year-old children in the UK (watch time 5:27).
Talking Mental Health
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“There is no such thing as primitive in the way Western education has traditionally conditioned people to perceive it.”
-Gregory Cajete, Tewa author and professor, Look To The Mountain: An Ecology Of Indigenous Education
Each week, DCYF ESIT Tribal Program Consultant, Brian Frisina, provides a key topic to help us get to know our Tribal Nation Partners better.
This week’s term is:
A Pueblo Story of Sustainability
Book Recommendations
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Look To The Mountain: An Ecology Of Indigenous Education by Gregory Cajete: This book explores the nature of indigenous education, outlining key elements of American Indian perspectives on learning and teaching. It advocates developing a contemporary, culturally based, educational process founded upon traditional tribal values, orientations, and principles, while simultaneously using the most appropriate concepts, technologies, and content of modern education.
Sources
Feel free to add your celebratory notes to ESIT State Program Administrator, Valerie Arnold's, Thank You and Appreciation Padlet! Celebrating Val's years of dedication, service and collaboration as she transitions out of her leadership role and into retirement:
Val’s Appreciation Padlet
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DCYF’s ESIT State Leadership Team and King County’s ESIT Lead Agency Team are partnering to host an ongoing meeting space to support ESIT Providers who work with immigrant and refugee families. The space will provide best practice training, guidance, resources, and reflective practice to ESIT Providers, in response to the evolving needs of families. Providers will have the opportunity to process, connect, and reflect with one another.
The launch session for this statewide group will be held on June 30! This first session will include a training, discussion, and reflection on the ESIT FAQs. This document provides potential and current families with important information about the enrollment process, what personal information is (and is not) collected, and the strong privacy protections in place to keep family data safe - especially as it relates to immigration status.
Who should attend?
Any Provider who works with immigrant and refugee families! For this first session, we highly recommend ESIT staff who support the intake/referral and evaluation/assessment process to attend.
Monday, June 30 | 9 -11 a.m.
Register for Supporting Providers Working with Immigrant and Refugee Families
Questions?
Contact DCYF ESIT Technical Assistance Specialist, Molly Stryker, at molly.stryker@dcyf.wa.gov or King County Program Manager, Norma Renteria Lobo, at nrenteri@kingcounty.gov.
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The ESIT State Leadership Office is pleased to announce the 90-day training and technical assistance period for the revised Transition Policy: Parental Opt-Out option, beginning April 1. The revised Policy will give families the opportunity to opt-out of the notification to Part B Special Education services during the transition window.
The ESIT Accountability and Quality Improvement team has scheduled open office hours for assistance.
Open Office Hours:
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June 10 | 9 – 10 a.m. | Join Meeting
Meeting ID: 810 0705 9062 Passcode: 198482
The Parent Opt-Out policy will be available to parents starting July 1.
The ESIT State Leadership Office is pleased to announce the statewide rollout of the revised System of Payments and Fees (SOPAF) Policy and associated new forms.
The rollout will be done in the following two phases:
- 60-day Universal Training period will begin May 1 - June 30.
- 90-day Targeted and Tailored Technical Assistance period will begin July 1 - Sept. 30.
The revised SOPAF policy and forms will be available for soft implementation starting July 1, with full statewide implementation no later than Oct. 1.
The Accountability and Quality Improvement team has scheduled two statewide orientation webinars in June. Participants (administrators, FRCs, fiscal staff) will be provided a detailed overview of the revised SOPAF policy, field expectations, and introduced to the new forms associated with the revised policy.
Please plan to attend one of the following Teams Webinars (no registration required):
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Next Steps
After July 1, Contractors will have an opportunity to implement the revised policy and new forms and then schedule Targeted and/or Tailored Technical Assistance virtual visits with their Quality Improvement and Technical Assistance Specialists to take a deeper dive and to answer any questions staff may have.
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