June 1st

Resources to discuss the current unrest:

• Sesame Street Caring for each other Resources: Missing Friends , Feeling Worried , Coping with Sickness , Understanding Needs and Wants
• Racial equity tools for people and groups who want to increase their own understanding and work towards justice.

Discussing race with children:

• Pretty Good: Your kids aren’t too young to talk about race, resource round up
• Center for Racial Justice in Education: Resources for talking with young people about race, racism, and racialized violence.
• NYU webinar: Talking to children about racism
• This video is a great tool to help you get started.

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May 28th

• Child Care Advocacy in a Post-COVID World: Session #3 – June 1st at 2:00 p.m. will be exploring lessons that child care advocates can learn from successful statewide advocacy campaigns in other fields. Register here! For a recording of Session #2 click here.
• State of Early Childhood Webinar from May 27, 2020 12:00 PM please find the link to the webinar recording and slide deck

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May 21st

Stay Safe:

• Hanover County’s Lock and Talk Suicide Prevention Initiative
• Fitbit: Safe running during COVID-19

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May 20th

Child Care Advocacy in a Post-COVID World

• You can access the recording of Session #1 here! The password for the video: 4Z@#2%20
• Early Learning Nation: Early childhood policy meets early childhood science, Part. 1: On School Readiness by Elliot Haspel from Robins Foundation

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May 19th

• Webinar recording of VECF’s : Phase One Child Care Guidance featuring Jenna Conway, Chief School Readiness Officer and Tara Ragland, Director of Licensing Programs at the VA Dept. of Social Services. You can access the webinar recording here and the PowerPoint slides here . Additional resources from the webinar here .

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May 13th

For Those Supporting Children with Disabilities and their Familes:

• Brookes Coffee Chat: Strategies for engaging parents during tele-intervention
• 2 Part Webinar Series: Supporting young children with disabilities and their families through tele-intervention

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May 7th

Helping Children Cope:

• St. Jude: Toolkit-Helping kids understand COVID-19
• CDC: Parents supporting children during COVID-19
• How to help anxious kids who feel isolated and alone right now
• Conscious Discipline: Answering children’s difficult COVID-19 questions
• Wingspan: Al’s Pals puppet video series for children during this time

Supporting at Home Learning:

• Teachstone: How to support adult/child interactions at home
• Teachstone Webinar: Strategies for teachers to support parent/child interactions at home
• NAEYC: Asking questions to stretch children’s thinking

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May 6th

• Hinge: Strategies for Re-engaging your teachers and staff

Teaching at Home:

• VPM: Resources for parents and teachers to support at home learning for pre-k through high school.
• Washington Post: Working from home with a baby or toddler? How can you make it work?
• Understood: How to create a portable schoolwork station at home?
• Art: Learn to draw your favorite Disney characters
• Equitable practices for teaching on line
• VDOE partners with Spanish radio to launch the first bilingual radio learning program

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May 5th

• VDOE’s State Wide Training and Technical Assistance – TTAC’s Online: COVID-19 Toolkit, Supporting those with autism through uncertain times
• Insights from John Richardson-Lauve about attachment-one of the three pillars of resilience.

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May 4^th

• Hinge Early Education
• Recording: Essentials to kick starting your recovery plan
• Child Care Aware of America
• Employer retention credits and paid leave tax credits for COVID-19 response
• FREE NAMI Basics Online Course geared toward the unique needs of families with children who have mental health conditions

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April 22^nd

• A message of support for all child care providers.
• VPM video “Look for the Helpers!”

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April 21^st

• Early Childhood Investigations: Financial Survival Strategies for Early Childhood: Emergent Resources and Advice
• Greater Richmond SCAN: Engaging with Families during COVID-19

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April 20^th

• VECF webinar on how Virginia’s $70 million for child care support will be disseminated along with other informational documents and application here
• NAEYC: What child care providers need to know about current national loan programs: PPP, EIDL and a new webinar “Paying yourself, your staff and your bills”. Recording here
• Hinge Brokers: Resources for small businesses, parent letter template and past webinars

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April 16^th

• Families Forward VA presents: Virtual Town Hall with Dr. Melissa Merrick on the importance of supports for children/families socially and emotionally.

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April 15^th

• Child Care Aware of American webinar and slides on implementation of the new CDC guidance document for open child care programs.

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April 13^th

• Take 15 mins to watch Oprah & children’s mental health expert Bruce Perry discuss the pandemic as a collective and how to help children and families.
• How to make the most of video chats with kids.

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April 9^th

VECF Webinars-Resources for Child Care Programs Impacted:

• Family Child Care: Recording and Slides
• Non-Profit and Faith Based: Recording and Slides
• For Profit: Recording and Slides

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April 8^th

• “Talking to Children About COVID-19” from First Lady of Virginia Pam Northam. Watch here!

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April 7^th

• Social Distancing for Families: Screen Time Strategies and Resources. Recording here.
• Social Distancing with children under 6. Recording here.
• VECF webinar with great information and tools for family day home providers from “Resources for Child Care Programs Impacted by COVID-19”. Listen and view materials here!

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April 6^th

• COVID-19 Stimulus Bill Update and Business Resources for Early Care Programs. Recording here.

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April 2^nd

• “Food Insecurities and Early Childhood during COVID-19” Recording here

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March 31^st

• Worried about paying your staff during COVID-19 and have other HR questions?  Listen to this recording.

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March 30^th

• Top 10 tax deductions for family child care by Tom Copeland  Listen here!
• Hinge EarlyEducation webinar recordings:
• Parent engagement, tuition and rent/mortgage strategies, including SBA loans. Listen here!
• Real time COVID -19 crisis response for child care programs. Listen here!
• Keeping your child care program healthy. Listen here!
• “Child Care Programs: Don’t Just Survive but Thrive During This Crisis”. Listen Here!

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March 27^th

• Message to child care providers from the Virginia’s first lady

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March 24^th

• Recording from VECF Early Childhood Stakeholder Call – COVID-19 Update from March 24th
• Recording: “Dealing with the financial side of COVID-19 for child care providers.” by Tom Copeland
• Recording: (you must register to view the recording) “Bracing for COVID-19, What early childhood programs need to know and consider now.” With Tom Copeland and CCAoA experts in health and emergency prep.
• Recording: “Addressing the Policy Needs of Family Child Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic”

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March 20^th

• View Tom Copland’s slides from the webinar on The Business side of COVID-19
• Recording from “Addressing the Policy Needs of Family Child Care Providers During the COVID-19 Pandemic“.

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March 19^th

• VECF hosted a briefing on Virginia’s recently released child care guidance with state agency officials.  Click here to listen to the recording of the call, including important questions from providers across Virginia. 
• Dr. Bergen Nelson’s Facebook Live March 19 Recording

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March 17^th

• Child Care Aware of America National focus on COVID-19 Recording
• VECF State focus on COVID-19 Recording