Listening Session #4: Advocating for a Governor’s Office for Children
The ripple effect of the opioid epidemic has affected all systems that care for kids: health care, public education, child welfare, foster care, and the court system. Could an office that oversees programs/services for affected children help break down silos? And if so, how do we advocate for it? Join Read more…
Listening Session #5: Kids need things to do
ZoomAn overwhelming theme from last year’s assessment project was this: Kids need meaningful things to do in their communities, ways to connect with one another, and cultivate relationships with caring adults. How do we take the next steps to make our communities more kid-friendly?
Policy Roundtable: Including All Kids
ZoomJoin health care providers, policymakers, community stakeholders, and parents for a conversation about the challenges to accessing comprehensive health care for kids with developmental disabilities here in West Virginia and potential policy solutions to improving the system. Panelists: Bill Albert, J.D.- Director of Legal Aid's Advocacy Project, Legal Aid of Read more…
Try These Five Things
ZoomHow can communities help address the needs of kids affected by the drug crisis? They can try these five things-- identified and prioritized by you. Help us articulate these ideas into a final report that we'll widely disseminate within our communities and with policymakers.
Try These Five Things
ZoomHow can communities help address the needs of kids affected by the drug crisis? They can try these five things-- identified and prioritized by you. Help us articulate these ideas into a final report that we'll widely disseminate within our communities and with policymakers.
Try These Five Things
ZoomHow can communities help address the needs of kids affected by the drug crisis? They can try these five things-- identified and prioritized by you. Help us articulate these ideas into a final report that we'll widely disseminate within our communities and with policymakers.
Report Release: Try These Five Things
FacebookJoin us for our report release! We'll talk about each of the five ideas and how we can work together to give kids a better sense of support and community. Bring your questions and ideas. Panelists include: Cindy Chamberlin with To the Moon and Back Andrea Darr with the WV Read more…
What Do You Know About Handle With Care?
YouTubeJoin us on our YouTube channel on Feb 22 at 12 pm for a chat with Andrea Darr, Director of the WV Center for Children's Justice and Manager of the Handle With Care WV program, and with coordinators who implement the program from around the state. We'll take your questions, Read more…
Trauma-Informed Schools in WV
YouTubeTrauma-informed schools are places that provide safe and supportive environments for children to learn and for school staff to work. What do you know about trauma-informed schools in West Virginia? Join us for a conversation about how schools across counties in WV are working to address trauma— the challenges, what's Read more…
What About the Little Ones? NAS in West Virginia
YouTubeNeonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) is a group of conditions caused when a baby withdraws from certain drugs that they are exposed to in the womb before birth. West Virginia has the highest rate in the country of babies born with NAS or drug-exposed. The toll it's taking on these children, Read more…
Project Update: Kids and the Drug Crisis
ZoomIn 2020, Think Kids launched a new initiative to better address the unmet needs of kids affected by the drug epidemic on the community level. It's a grassroots, ground-up approach to the continuing challenges our kids face— issues often left unaddressed. While our focus is on a six-county area— Boone, Read more…
Health and Hunger Summit Session 1: Can a Collaborative Conduit Connect Systems?
ZoomConnecting the health care system with food resource providers— pantries, summer feeding programs, etc.— takes strategy, collaboration, and people power. How can providers connect patients who identify as food insecure to resources if they don't know where they are? How can they tell them when the mobile food pantry is Read more…