Education
2022 Coconino County Summer Camps
The following is a listing of upcoming summer camps in Coconino County.
If your organization would like to be added to this listing, please send an email to frank@coconinokids.org
Bilingual update — Child Crisis Arizona announces upcoming Summer programming
Child Crisis Arizona has announced its upcoming Summer programming which includes live Zoom programming, on-demand trainings, and in-person programming. These trainings are great tools for general parenting knowledge, staff training hours, adoption and foster care licensure hours, custody proceedings, DCS cases, and more.
Children’s Action Alliance — The Data Is In! Babies Need Our Help
For most of us, it is hard to imagine an entire lifetime lived during a deadly pandemic. As we enter the third year of COVID, public health crisis, many Arizonans may feel like it has been forever but for the state’s infants and toddlers it literally has been a lifetime. The mental and physical well-being of babies is a powerful indicator of our overall health, and it is looking more and more like our youngest citizens are not all right.
Last week, an initiative of ZERO TO THREE called Think Babies! released the State of Babies Yearbook, an annual report that looks at the national and state-by-state data on the well-being of America’s babies. The Yearbook includes 60 indicators across policy areas known to provide a strong start in life: GOOD HEALTH, STRONG FAMILIES, AND POSITIVE EARLY LEARNING EXPERIENCES. The 2022 Yearbook also includes specialized data collected by the University of Oregon during the pandemic to show how the crisis has affected and continues to affect families with infants and toddlers.
Arizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation (AFFCF) announces 2022 Save My Summer program
v=AFFCF’s popular Save My Summer award category is back by popular demand! The category will be open through July 29, 2022 ONLY. Requests made after July 29 will not be considered.
A ONE-TIME ONLY AWARD of up to $100 may be made for each eligible child in your home so that you can purchase items that will SAVE MY SUMMER! Slip and slide? Board games? Water table? Science experiment? Arts and crafts? You name it…we’ll consider funding it!
Native American Scholarship Program 2022 — Freeport-McMoRan is offering three different scholarships administered by Education Forward Arizona
Freeport-McMoRan is offering three different scholarships administered by Education Forward Arizona. The deadline for students to apply is June 1, 2022.
Eligibility Criteria — Be an enrolled member of the Hualapai Tribe, Navajo Nation, San Carlos Apache Tribe, TohonoO’odham Nation, White Mountain Apache Tribe or other tribal communities including Ak-ChinIndian Community, Gila River Indian Community, Hopi Tribe, Pascua Yaqui Tribe, Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, Tonto Apache Tribe, Yavapai-Apache Nation, YavapaiPrescott Indian Tribe and Zuni Pueblo.
Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health’s Strong Fathers (Azhe’é Bidziil) program seeking applicants
The Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health is inviting adult fathers and father figures to take part in the Azhe’é Bidziil (Strong Fathers) program in Tuba City and Chinle, Arizona (and surrounding areas). The goal of the program is to increase economic stability of fathers and their families, promote positive parenting and increase healthy relationships and co-parenting in Native communities. The program will include 12 weekly workshop sessions with 8-12 fathers and will be led by two Health Coaches. Weekly support visits are also offered to connect fathers with local resources. Recruitment and enrollment will begin in April 2021. Participants who complete the full program are eligible for up to $350 in gift cards.
Arizona’s Children Association presents ‘First Five Years’
Arizona’s Children Association Family Education & Support Services will present the parenting workshop “First Five Years.”
Includes materials and gifts for attending!
This 4-session series will help you nurture your child with a “just right” combination of freedom and positive discipline.
Participate in First Five YearsTM and learn:
Your child’s development and growing brain
Preventing tantrums and other problems
Using mindfulness to keep calm
Six ways to prepare your child for school success
Arizona Center for Afterschool Excellence (AzCASE) — Valley Students Overcoming Challenges through STEM
We want to give a huge shout out and appreciation to all those who participated in the Million Girls Moonshot Peer Learning Community over the last 3 months. Over the course of the Peer Learning Community, 12 out-of-school time professionals learned about Engineering Mindset practices to support their facilitation of STEM activities and how to make their STEM programming more equitable and inclusive. They showed up every other week to connect with one another through live virtual sessions and to collectively learn best practices when facilitating STEM activities. AzCASE appreciates your commitment to delivering high quality STEM programming to your youth that is equitable and inclusive. We look forward to seeing all the amazing things you will continue to do in your programs!
Connections Spotlight — National Mental Health Month in May raises awareness of the impacts of trauma on the physical, emotional, and mental well-being of children, families and communities
The Coconino Coalition for Children & Youth joins other organizations in Arizona in recognizing the month of May as National Mental Health Month, which raises awareness of the impacts of trauma on the physical, emotional, and mental well-being of children, families and communities.
“As individuals and leaders in Arizona, we understand we must heal to move forward from the current trauma of COVID-19. We recognize that all individuals not only experience trauma from situations such as a pandemic but also because of ongoing social injustice practices.
Education Spotlight — Developing future Diné public health leaders starts with early, culturally significant exposure. See more local, state and national education news here
Successfully guiding Diné youth toward health and public health professions begins with two important ideas––start students in a program in high school and cultivate in them a love and understanding of their own cultural, strength-based assets.
Researchers from Diné College and Northern Arizona University explored these findings and other lessons in their recently released publication, “Engaging Native American High School Students in Public Health Career Preparation Through the Indigenous Summer Enhancement Program.”
The publication examines the Indigenous Summer Enhancement Program (ISEP), a one-week summer training program that exposes Native American high school students to public health careers and mentorship in Tsaile, Arizona.
