Tag: Coconino Coalition for Children & Youth
Connections Spotlight: CCC&Y Conducts Groundbreaking Assessment, more news
The Coconino Coalition for Children & Youth has completed and released a Needs Assessment that connects much research around Adverse Childhood Experiences and protective factors to help guide a map of community healing. It also contains much of the data around needs in Coconino County, specifically regarding substance abuse.
Please feel free to use for your data needs, grants and speaking points for community understanding. We are using this to guide our prevention work.
Connections Spotlight: CCC&Y’s monthly board meeting to be held on Feb. 24
The Coconino Coalition for Children & Youth will hold its next monthly board meeting from noon to 1:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 24 at the County Health and Community Services Building, 2625 N. King St., Ponderosa Room, Flagstaff.
Connections Spotlight: CCC&Y board approves new Action and Outreach Initiatives for 2020-2021
The board of the Coconino Coalition for Children & Youth voted on Jan. 27 to approve a series of Policy Initiatives for 2020-21.
The policies cover education, child welfare, environmental equity, incarcerated parents / justice reform and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).
CCC&Y is a non-partisan organization that supports an educated and engaged voting population that participates in our democratic process.
Connections Spotlight: CCC&Y’s monthly board meeting to be held on Jan. 27
FLAGSTAFF — The Coconino Coalition for Children & Youth will hold its next monthly board meeting from noon to 1:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 27 at the County Health and Community Services Building, 2625 N. King St., Ponderosa Room, Flagstaff.
The board will be approving the Coalition’s Action and Outreach initiatives at the meeting.
ALL are welcome to attend the Coalition’s monthly board meeting and join in the discussion.
Upcoming CCC&Y Events and Activities
Upcoming CCC&Y Events and Activities: 2020 Monthly Board and Membership Meetings: *Held the third Monday of every month from 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m., Coconino County Health District, 2625 N. King St., Ponderosa Room, Flagstaff * Meetings subject to change due to holidays. Visit https://news.coconinokids.org for the latest update. 2020 Monthly CCC&Y Committee Meetings: CCC&Y Action and Outreach […]
Connections Spotlight: CCC&Y awarded Child Abuse Prevention (CAP) Council contract for Coconino County
CCC&Y was recently awarded the Child Abuse Prevention (CAP) Council contract for Coconino County through the Department of Child Safety. This means we will be changing from having 2 councils (Williams and Flagstaff) to a county-wide structure. CAP councils are found throughout the state, made of groups of volunteers wanting to make a difference by raising awareness and prevention strategy in the community. Please email Executive Director, Virginia Watahomigie, at virginia@coconinokids.org if you are interested in being an official member of the Coconino CAP Council or if you would like to learn more about this important volunteer opportunity.
Connections Spotlight: Self-Healing Communities Update
CCC&Y hosted more than 300 individuals in Flagstaff this October in order to be a part of a day-long presentation with internationally known child-welfare expert, Kevin Campbell. An additional live-stream site was set up in Page which served an additional eight guests.
This past week, CCC&Y conducted two focus group follow ups for a total of 43 individuals, plus board members Andrea Meronuck and Cliff Binkley as moderators and ED Virginia Watahomigie in attendance.
Connections Spotlight: CCC&Y’s monthly board meeting on Nov. 18 to feature information on Arizona Town Hall’s ‘Strong Families Thriving Children’ effort
Jermaine Barkley of Steward Health Choice of Arizona to also present information on Project ECHO, other initiatives
Virginia Watahomigie, executive director of the Coconino Coalition for Children & Youth, will talk about her upcoming participation in the Arizona Town Hall and its background report “Strong Families Thriving Children,” and Jermaine Barkley of Steward Health Choice of Arizona will present information on the organization’s 1st Episode of Psychosis and ECHO process initiatives during the next CCC&Y monthly board meeting from noon to 1:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 18 at the County Health and Community Services Building, 2625 N. King St., Ponderosa Room, Flagstaff.
Connections Spotlight: Get Tickets Now!! — Time is short for Kevin Campbell’s presentation on ‘Self-Healing Communities’ on Oct. 29 in Flagstaff
Hundreds of tickets have gone but we still have room.
RSVP now for Kevin Campbell’s presentation on “Self-Healing Communities,” from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 29 at the High Country Conference Center, 201 W. Butler Ave., Flagstaff.
Tickets are $30 to $45. Click here to register.
We are excited to announce this has attracted statewide attention including local, state and federal representation as well as a policy analyst. Ticket sales end in 2 weeks on Oct 13.
Space still available for vendors to participate in CCC&Y’s 9th Annual Flagstaff Early Childhood Fair on Sept. 28
In celebration of young children and to support Flagstaff’s Festival of Science, we thank you for participating in CCC&Y’s 9thAnnual Early Childhood Fair in Flagstaff.
Because of our wonderful sponsors and volunteers, there continues to be no charge to table at this event. More exciting, this year we will continue to be in the Flagstaff Festival of Science passport, in addition to other advertising, so we expect this to be a great event for all vendors.
