NEW Online Course! Collaborating With Other Professions To Benefit Youth and Families

By successfully working together with community partners, providers can create collaborative solutions to complex problems for the children and families they serve. This course will describe how families may interact with different professionals to receive comprehensive care, explain the reasons why collaborating with other professionals is important and beneficial to the provider and their families, explain the roles of the different professionals, and how to locate appropriate referrals to other professionals. This online training course is available on Trust Academy and is appropriate for family service direct program staff and administrators. If you have any questions, please contact teamcoach@miami.edu.

*Community of Practice (CoP) Announcement: All CoPs will take a quick hiatus in the month of January but will be back during the first week of February.

Communities of Practice- Join a community where members support one another, share best practices and deepen their knowledge. All of the following CoPs are currently being offered virtually and are appropriate for direct service providers and supervisors of Parenting Programs. If you have any questions or would like additional support, please contact teamcoach@miami.edu.

Parent and Provider Stressors & Barriers - In this CoP, we will discuss the stressors and barriers that both you as a provider, and the families you serve, face. We will also be identifying solutions, practicing these strategies and discussing the implementation of them into your practice. Click here to sign up or log in to Trust Academy!

Creating Support Networks & Community Outreach/Recruitment -In this CoP, we will work collaboratively to create networks of outreach and referrals across parenting providers in the community and discuss program recruitment strategies. You will have the opportunity to get to know other community providers, share information, and support one another. Virtual recruitment will be an ongoing topic. Click here to sign up or log in to Trust Academy!

The New Normal: Returning to In-Person Services during COVID-19 - In this CoP, we will work collaboratively to share ideas and problem-solve strategies for returning to in-person services for group-based, home-based, and office-based parenting services. We will discuss recruitment, communication, and safety strategies for your staff and participants. Come prepared to share your agency’s ideas to help all programs successfully serve the community. You will have the opportunity to get to know other community providers, share information, and support one another. Date and time TBD.

The Children’s Trust abides by a high code of conduct and holds its employees to a similarly high ethical standard with respect to conflicts of interest or the appearance thereof. While your gift-giving sentiment is thoughtful, employees of The Children’s Trust may not accept any gift (at any time) including entertainment, tickets to events, food, fruit and or cookie baskets, meals, gratuities, etc. of any value under any circumstance. As such, please understand any such item must respectfully be declined.

Thank you for thinking of us and for helping us abide by the county's ethics policy The Trust has for its employees.

The Children’s Trust family wishes everyone safe and happy holidays and our very best wishes for the New Year! Please note we will be closed December 24 through December 31, reopening January 3. The provider bulletin will resume on Wednesday, January 5.

As messaged in previous communications, those providers who submitted a November invoice by December 3, 2021, will receive a payment before the break. With the closure and our new Fiscal Module in Trust-Central, we are not able to guarantee a payment for those who missed the December 3 deadline. Payments will resume in January 2022.

Trust-funded providers, if your offices will be open December 24 through December 31, please feel free to continue submitting any outstanding invoices. However, we will not be reviewing or processing invoices and payments until our office re-opens on January 3. We will review any invoices submitted during this period upon our return.

The Children’s Trust will soon release competitive funding opportunities for programs that support children and families in the following program areas: Family and Neighborhood Supports, Trust Academy Program Quality Supports and Innovation Fund. To learn more about these opportunities visit http://www.thechildrenstrust.org/grants.

An important component of the process is the engagement of local community members to work with Trust staff in reviewing applications submitted for funding, and we hope you will consider joining us in this critical endeavor. Visit The Children’s Trust volunteer reviewer page to learn more about being a community reviewer and to apply. We look forward to working with you!

Should you have any difficulty completing the volunteer grant reviewer application/registration form, email Samuel McKinnon of The Children's Trust Community Engagement team to assist you.

Family is critical to a youth’s development and success, and providers can work with families to mobilize sources of support and resilience. In this Training and Implementation Associates (TIA) course, we show why engagement can be challenging, how to avoid blaming families for being “resistance”, and how to form a healthy working relationship. This online training course is available on Trust Academy and is appropriate for direct service providers and supervisors of Family Strengthening and Family and Neighborhood Support programs.

Providers using the Children's Trust Logo on any material must send that material for review and approval to communicationscompliance@thechildrenstrust.org. To download the current Trust logo, visit the Media Kit & Logos page on the Trust website:

Ask-Listen-Encourage: 12/20/21, 10 a.m.-12 p.m.

In this interactive workshop, youth development staff will learn how to ask effective questions, listen actively to youth, and offer encouragement beyond basic praise.

Differentiated Literacy Instruction: 1/19/22, 4:30-6:30 p.m.

Learn to use reading assessment data from the ORF & Maze assessments to identify struggling readers and to develop reading intervention plans unique to each student.

Please register for these training in Trust Academy.

Childhood injury prevention capacity-building efforts facilitated by the Public Health Trust's Injury Free Coalition for Kids of Miami are offered to all Trust-funded providers via Zoom. Visit The Children's Trust Academy for full descriptions, meeting info and registration information.

Home Safety Training & Education: Thursday, December 9; 9-10:30 a.m

Home Safety Training & Education: Thursday, December 9; 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m

Water Safety Training: Monday, December 13; 4-5:30 p.m.

Car Passenger Safety: Tuesday, December 14; 10 a.m.-12 p.m.

Car Passenger Safety: Tuesday, December 14; 12-2 p.m.

Home Safety Training & Education: Wednesday, December 15; 9-10:30 a.m

Home Safety Training & Education: Wednesday, December 15; 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m

Suicide Prevention Training: Thursday, December 16, 10 a.m.-12 p.m.

Car Passenger Safety: Tuesday, December 21; 10 a.m.-12 p.m.

Home Safety Training & Education Monday, December 27; 4-5:30 p.m

Poisoning Safety Training: Tuesday, December 28, 11 a.m. -12:30 p.m.

Home Safety Training & Education: Thursday, December 30; 9-10:30 a.m

Home Safety Training & Education: Thursday, December 30; 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m

Did you know that to address the needs of children and youth with disabilities, the Trust provides options for modifying outcome measures? Discover what is meant by accommodation, modification, alternate assessment, and alternate outcomes. Learn when they are appropriate for program participants, and how to request permission to use them.

Other online courses remain available, including:

Tuesday, December 14, 9:30 a.m.-12 p.m. An Administrator’s Overview of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA): Are you an Administrator, site director, or the person responsible for your organization meeting its legal obligations under the ADA? Join us to be sure you are up to date on enrollment, eligibility, reasonable accommodations, policies and procedures, and more.

To register for any of these offerings, visit https://collabornation.net/login

or go to https://trustcentral.org and click on the Trust Academy link

Trainings Provided at Your Site: Contact your Inclusion Specialist or Pat Donovan at pdonovan@advocacynetwork.org to schedule a training at your site for up to 20 participants. We are currently offering the following two on-site trainings:

Count Me In: Discovering Inclusion for Kids - Learn fun, meaningful activities to do with your students to build their disability awareness, and encourage them to appreciate differences. This training helps develop Social-Emotional Skills for children.

Structures for Success - Youth both with and without disabilities can behave in challenging ways. Learn the seven basic needs youth exhibit and take away strategies for meeting these needs through positive, preventive approaches. This training is especially relevant to YEN and YAS Providers.

Also available at your site: Coaching, Technical Assistance, and help working with an individual child or youth. Contact your Inclusion Specialist or Pat Donovan.

Trust-funded programs and initiatives throughout the community have been doing inspiring, life-changing and heroic work to provide for the children and families of Miami-Dade during the coronavirus pandemic. Please continue the good work and make sure to share their stories on social media while tagging us. Also, don't forget to email your stories and latest triumphs!

The Community Engagement Manager is responsible for performing a variety of community-driven duties with an emphasis on maintaining contact with community groups, parents, and other caregivers, providing support to residents on children’s needs, as well as evaluating and responding to community needs concerning children. The incumbent exercises independence of action and will possess considerable knowledge of community activities and needs for children and families and use considerable professional judgment in the performance of community engagement work.

The Research and Evaluation Analyst is a critical member of both cross- and inter-departmental teams at The Children’s Trust who engages in proactive problem-solving and critical thinking/analysis related to the design and effectiveness of various child, youth and family services. Primary responsibilities include: contributing to effective program and systems designs for The Children’s Trust’s priority investments in child, youth and family services; designing and maintaining sound data collection tools and systems to capture meaningful program, operational and community data in a user-friendly, accessible manner; and analyzing and making meaning from available data to tell our stories using compelling visualizations and reports, with an intentional focus on the specific audience and purpose of the message.

This exempt, salaried position works under general supervision from the director of research. Work performance is reviewed through conferences, reports and observation of results achieved.

The Special Projects Manager is a critical member of both cross- and inter-departmental teams at The Children’s Trust who engages in strategic planning, proactive problem-solving and critical thinking/analysis related to the design, coordination, and implementation of organizational projects. Primary responsibilities include utilizing and implementing change management, project management and business process management disciplines for successful on-budget and on-time execution of organizational projects.

The Division of Exceptional Student Education announces immediate part-time and full-time openings for school psychologists. Applicants must have experience working with children and possess either a current certificate in school psychology from the Florida Department of Education or be licensed as a psychologist through the Florida Department of Health.

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