SFTI Pre-Conference Event
Become a Stewards of Children Facilitator
Make a Difference in the Life of a Child!
Provide the Stewards of Children sexual abuse prevention program to your community---great for staff, volunteers, and parents!
Coming to Boise, ID March 15, 2010
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Parent Talk:
With child development specialist, Carolyn Kiefer, MS
January,
2010
Idaho Early Learning Guidelines: a new resource for parents
Where do you get good parenting advice—the “what to do’s” of raising a child?
Relatives? magazines? websites? (friends who have pets rather than children? oops!) Bookstores have whole sections laden with books about raising brighter/spirited/shy/creative/girls/boys. There’s some crazy stuff out there! Our own family relationships usually shape our expectations, routines, and ideas about what is a “good” child and discipline. Our upbringing also leads to oaths about “I’ll
never say that to my child!”-- and sometimes we find ourselves saying and doing those things later. As parents we are at once inundated and left wondering about what is reasonable to expect from a child, and “the stages”.
Now there is a reliable resource for parents of young children: the new Idaho Early Learning eGuidelines. The Guidelines are a web-based, foundational document about child development from birth through five (parts go to age 8). The information is about what children can be expected to know and do at a variety of age ranges. They were developed by a team of over 40 “seasoned” Idaho early childhood professionals. The information is based on research and “best practice”, and organized into 5 Domains:
Domain 1: Approaches to Learning and Cognitive Development
Domain 2: Physical Well-being, Health, and Motor Development
Domain 3: Social and Emotional Development
Domain 4: General Knowledge (math, science, social studies, etc)
Domain 5: Communication, Language and Literacy
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Parent Talk
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Board Award Renamed
Ed Van Dusen Legacy Award
 Why is this award named for Ed Van Dusen? Ed Van Dusen might rightly be called the “Father of the Idaho Children’s Trust Fund” because of his role in getting the organization established in 1985. After his death in 2009, the Trust Fund’s board renamed its “Board Award” in his honor. 2010 will mark the first award given in his name
What is the “Ed Van Dusen Legacy Award” for Exemplary Practice in Child Abuse Prevention?
An annual award created by the members of the Idaho Children’s Trust Fund Board to recognize and reward a particular child abuse prevention effort in Idaho that is creative, innovative and impacts the community in a positive way by preventing the abuse and neglect of children.
Completed applications are due at the ICTF office by 5:00 p.m. on February 19, 2010.
Click here for more information and the Ed Van Dusen Legacy Award
for Exemplary Practice in Child Abuse Prevention
Application 2010
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Here’s What’s New:
 Prevent Child Abuse Idaho is on Facebook
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Abuse Idaho.
Times-News story published at
magicvalley.com Saturday, April 25, 2009
Do anything, but do something
Idaho State Journal, Sunday April 12, 2009, Healthy
Living;
The five factors for strengthening families
Annual Child Abuse Prevention Grants Available up to $5000.
New Grant Cycle begins October 1, 2009
Hard Times Can Bring Harsh Treatment, op-ed by Roger
Sherman February 2009
Trust Fund in the News Archives
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