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New Training! Fostering Inclusive
Spaces for Children of All Abilities
Join us at United Way's Pittsburgh Office for this eye-opening and interactive workshop, tailored to increase awareness about disabilities, and to share different ways to make your program space more inclusive for children with disabilities. Often, they are excluded when it comes to spaces for learning and play, but this doesn't have to be the case!

With her firsthand experience living with a disability and parenting a child with a disability too, our guest presenter, Michelle Walker, of Lend An Ear Consulting, will be here to help participants navigate this important topic for Out-of-School Time providers. Questions are encouraged. Please come with an open mind! We look forward to seeing you there!

Click here to learn more and to register. 
Congress + Afterschool
(Afterschool Alliance) As January winds down and the partial government shutdown remains on hold at least until February 15th, it is a good time to look at the new 116th Congress: what are the priorities, what might get accomplished, and what are the challenges and opportunities ahead from the afterschool advocate’s perspective. Part one below provides an overview of the 116th; part two covers the afterschool policy opportunities we will see in the months ahead.

Click here to read more.
SEL Resources
Do you deliberately devote classroom time to social-emotional learning, or SEL? Does your school address it building-wide? How? More and more schools are incorporating strategies to bolster these strengths. Check out this write up in a recent New York Times article that speaks especially well to the five SEL “core competencies” and is a compilation of great resources related to social-emotional learning. 

Click here to read the article.
 
Grants
Calvin K. Kazanjian Economics Foundation: grants for increasing economic literacy. Deadline: February 15th
Learn&Earn: seeking providers to manage summer youth employment programs serving low-income City of Pittsburgh or Allegheny County residents ages 14-21. Deadline: February 20th
PA Dept of Health: seeking youth organizations to implement the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program (OBPP) to promote the reduction of bullying among 12-17 year old youth. Deadline: May 1st
Teaching Tolerance: educator grants for projects that create affirming school climates and educate young people how to thrive in a diverse democracy. Deadline: Rolling
Costco Wholesale: donations to nonprofits focusing on supporting children, education, health and human services. Deadline: Rolling. 
Public Welfare Foundation Youth Justice: grants to groups that work to advance youth justice across the country, particularly those fighting the criminalization and incarceration of youth of color. Deadline: Rolling 
Dr. Greene
By using technology to make pediatric wisdom more accessible to all, Dr.Greene.com's goal is to improve children's health by informing and inspiring those who care for them. This health website provides information to prepare parents to become more informed about their children's health and it's important connection to the environment. 

Click here to learn more. 

Upcoming Events

February 13th: Raising the Bar on Staff Supports: Building Staff SEL Skills
February 13th: Webinar: Assessment in School Age Care
February 15th: Orientation to the Non-profit Resource Center
February 16th: Dating Matters
February 20th: Webinar: Assessment in School Age Care
February 20th: Introduction to Finding Grants
February 21st: Social Change in the Archives
February 21st: Webinar: Group Mentoring: Models and Practice
February 22nd: Overcoming Compassion Fatigue
February 25th: Dating Matters
February 26th: America’s History of Child Separations and Families Divided
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February 28th: (Re) Imagining Black Boyhood: Strategies for Relational Learning at School
February 28th: Responding to Reality: "East of Liberty" Film Screening with the Director, Chris Ivey

For more events, please click the links below:
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APOST Activities
FREE Trainings!

Overcoming Compassion Fatigue
Friday, Feb 22nd

10AM-1PM
United Way of SWPA
Click here to register

Action Day 2019
Wednesday, March 27th

Harrisburg, PA
Click here to register. 

 

You Decide

Quality SEL program implementation takes collaboration between school-day, afterschool, and summer staff, according to a new evaluation. Check out the new brief from PCY, "The Key to Bringing Social-Emotional Learning to Life" to see how you can apply this new research to your programming. 

Click here to read the brief. 

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