From anderson_katie at oslmac.osl.state.or.us Tue Jan 5 08:36:31 2010 From: anderson_katie at oslmac.osl.state.or.us (Katie Anderson) Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 08:36:31 -0800 Subject: [Reading-For-Healthy-Families] Early Childhood: 2009 Policy Review In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Hello! I have a correction... As of Sept. 30, the Oregon Center for Career Development in Childhood Care and Education processed 791 education awards for providers equaling a total of $261,000, not $700,000. This is still a sizable amount of stimulus funds helping childcare providers improve their programs! Katie Anderson, Library Development Services * Youth Services Consultant * Oregon Center for the Book Coordinator * Oregon State Library, 250 Winter St. NE, Salem, OR 97301 katie.anderson at state.or.us, 503-378-2528 From: Katie Anderson [mailto:anderson_katie at oslmac.osl.state.or.us] Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2009 10:24 AM To: 'Kids-Lib'; 'reading-for-healthy-families at listsmart.osl.state.or.us' Subject: Early Childhood: 2009 Policy Review Zero to Three has an excellent article summarizing early childhood policies of 2009 online at: http://tiny.cc/587PR. Two points of interest in Oregon: 9 applications for Early Head Starts in Oregon have already been approved to receive federal funding and are in the early stages of planning. The approved programs will be announce early in 2010 so keep your eyes on the news! This Summer and Fall the Oregon Center for Career Development in Childhood Care and Education distributed approximately $700,000 in federal stimulus funds to childcare providers taking professional development classes. Katie Anderson, Library Development Services * Youth Services Consultant * Oregon Center for the Book Coordinator * Oregon State Library, 250 Winter St. NE, Salem, OR 97301 katie.anderson at state.or.us, 503-378-2528 From: Ann Dondero [mailto:anndo at wccls.org] Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 1:52 PM To: katie.anderson at state.or.us Subject: Interesting Information Hi Katie, I just came across this information from Zero to Three and found it interesting and hopeful for support of early literacy. You may have already seen it, but I thought it was at least a bit encouraging. http://www.zerotothree.org/site/DocServer/09_policy_achievements.pdf?docID=10021&JServSessionIda004=gmdsn6nvn1.app19d We'll be looking forward to the Ready to Read Grant information on what other libraries are doing! Thanks. Ann Ann Dondero Youth Services Librarian Forest Grove City Library 503 992-3281 anndo at wccls.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From anderson_katie at oslmac.osl.state.or.us Wed Jan 6 08:54:06 2010 From: anderson_katie at oslmac.osl.state.or.us (Katie Anderson) Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 08:54:06 -0800 Subject: [Reading-For-Healthy-Families] Autism Article and websites Message-ID: <20100106165406.b9385630@OSLMAC.OSL.STATE.OR.US> Hello! I just read the following article from NPR which again didn't find any conclusive cause of autism. However, their findings are interesting. Those of us who work with parents who didn't finish high school, who are not white, and who don't have access to autism services are much less likely to get their children diagnosed. These are the parents most of us work with. If these parents don't have older children in school, we may be their primary link to information about autism. Remember, recent research shows that about 1 in 100 people are diagnosed on the autism spectrum so chances are very high that you will encounter a parent or child with the disorder. Now might be a good time to take a look at the information on the RFHF website about working with children with special needs: http://www.oregon.gov/OSL/LD/youthsvcs/rfhf.special.topics.shtml#Children_with_Special_Needs Don't forget these websites: -First 100 Days Kit: A tool kit to assist families in getting the critical information they need in the first 100 dats after an autism diagnosis http://www.autismspeaks.org/docs/family_services_docs/100_day_kit.pdf -Autism Society of America http://www.autism-society.org/site/PageServer -National Autism Association http://www.nationalautismassociation.org/ -Libraries and Autism: We're Connected http://www.thejointlibrary.org/autism/resources.htm -Programming for Children with Special Needs (Association for Library Services to Children) http://www.alsc.ala.org/blog/?p=800 If the links don't work, try cutting and pasting the URL into your browser or cutting and pasting the title into your Google search box. Katie Katie Anderson, Library Development Services * Youth Services Consultant * Oregon Center for the Book Coordinator * Oregon State Library, 250 Winter St. NE, Salem, OR 97301 katie.anderson at state.or.us, 503-378-2528 Autism 'Clusters' Linked to Parents' Education http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122256276&ft=1&f=1001 by Jon Hamilton January 6, 2010 Clusters of children diagnosed with autism tend to occur in places where parents are older, more educated, and white, according to a study by researchers at the University of California, Davis. Enlarge 2010 UC Regents Locations of "clusters" of autism found in California by researchers at UC Davis. They are located in areas where parents have higher-than-average levels of education. The study found no link to local pollution or chemical exposures ? which some consumer groups have cited as possible causes of autism clusters. The results suggest that areas in California with apparently high rates of autism spectrum disorders are probably just places where parents are more likely to obtain a diagnosis for their child, the researchers say. "It doesn't necessarily mean that higher education causes autism," says Irva Hertz-Picciotto, one of the study's authors and a researcher at the UC Davis MIND Institute. "It gets you the diagnosis more frequently." Enlarge 2010 UC Regents Autism "Cluster" found in North LA County. Autism rates here were roughly double that of surrounding areas. The UC Davis study looked at the geographic distribution of about 10,000 children who were born in California from 1996 through 2000 and later diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder. A cluster was defined as a community in which the proportion of children diagnosed with autism was a least 70 percent higher than in surrounding areas. The study found that differences in parents' age, education and ethnicity explained the cluster most of the time. Higher Education More Diagnosis For example, it found that children of parents who finished college were at least four times more likely to be diagnosed than children of parents who didn't finish high school. Children were also more likely to be diagnosed if they were born in a community near a regional service center for people with autism. Hispanic parents were under-represented in all 10 of the clusters, according to the study. That could be because some parents are reluctant to seek help from a state agency if they have a member of the family who is undocumented, Hertz-Picciotto says. No Evidence Of Environmental Risk The study may be most interesting because it did not find any environmental explanation for higher autism rates, says Steven Novella, a neurologist at Yale University. "You can't prove a negative," he says. But the results of this and other studies suggest that "If there are environmental factors, they're small," Novella says. The California results also show how widely autism diagnosis rates can vary from place to place, Novella says. In some areas of the state, children were four times as likely to be diagnosed as in other areas. That suggests that in many areas there are still a huge number of children with autism spectrum disorders who are slipping through the cracks, Novella says. Related NPR Stories Teaching Kids With Autism The Art Of Conversation Jan. 15, 2009 DVD Helps Kids With Autism Read Faces, Emotions Jan. 27, 2009 Writing Study Ties Autism To Motor-Skill Problems Nov. 11, 2009 Coping With An Autistic Brother: A Teenager's Take Jan. 1, 2009 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From anderson_katie at oslmac.osl.state.or.us Wed Jan 6 13:44:22 2010 From: anderson_katie at oslmac.osl.state.or.us (Katie Anderson) Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:44:22 -0800 Subject: [Reading-For-Healthy-Families] Early literacy partnership ideas Message-ID: <20100106214422.dec951f3@OSLMAC.OSL.STATE.OR.US> Looking for ideas to sustain early literacy activities and partnerships? Here are some things that RFHF participants are doing: Washington County Cooperative Library Services worked with Healthy Start to identify all the titles recommended in the Parents As Teachers curriculum, purchase the titles, and create desposit collections for Healthy Start family support workers to use with their families. Think this is a great idea? Call your library or your Healthy Start and start planning! If you can't remember how to contact each other, just ask me! Remember, there are resources for getting inexpensive books on the RFHF website: http://www.oregon.gov/OSL/LD/youthsvcs/rfhf.deal.on.kids.books.shtml. And you may want to look at some fund development resources at: http://www.oregon.gov/OSL/LD/youthsvcs/earlylit/funding/. Scappoose Public Library talked with local agencies about early literacy and Every Child Ready to Read classes for parents at the library. The following agencies agreed to promote the classes to the parents they work with: County Corrections Probation Officers, County Mental Health, DHS Self Sufficiency and Public Health Department. If you aren't sure how to get the word out about your parent education sessions to families in your community you may want to try working with local agencies like these. If you have good ideas too please share them with us! All you have to do is hit "reply all" to this email and you're set to go. 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We partnered with St. Helens City library (thanks Margaret!) to put on a "field trip" for my teen mom group, who came to the library and got a RFHF lesson on overview and I Love Books, plus a storytime by library staff and the opportunity to get library cards. This was pretty successful for us and came together well. Our Healthy Start program plans to do our next quarterly group meeting at the library, where we'll share another module, hopefully with the help of the library staff (Hey, Margaret!) and again provide that opportunity to get library cards. We're planning on using transportation vouchers to eliminate the major barrier our families have to visiting the library. As many of my families are in the Rainier and Clatskanie areas where we do not have an official library partner, I plan to offer an "offsite home visit" and meet individual families at the library, using a tour and obtaining a library card as a teaching opportunity, combined with a home education module to cover a full topic. Looking forward to our training next week! Becki Bozart, FSW Certified Parent Educator Healthy Start of Columbia County 503-970-3023 From: reading-for-healthy-families-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us [mailto:reading-for-healthy-families-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us] On Behalf Of Katie Anderson Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 1:44 PM To: RFHF Subject: [Reading-For-Healthy-Families] Early literacy partnership ideas Looking for ideas to sustain early literacy activities and partnerships? Here are some things that RFHF participants are doing: Washington County Cooperative Library Services worked with Healthy Start to identify all the titles recommended in the Parents As Teachers curriculum, purchase the titles, and create desposit collections for Healthy Start family support workers to use with their families. Think this is a great idea? Call your library or your Healthy Start and start planning! If you can't remember how to contact each other, just ask me! Remember, there are resources for getting inexpensive books on the RFHF website: http://www.oregon.gov/OSL/LD/youthsvcs/rfhf.deal.on.kids.books.shtml. And you may want to look at some fund development resources at: http://www.oregon.gov/OSL/LD/youthsvcs/earlylit/funding/. Scappoose Public Library talked with local agencies about early literacy and Every Child Ready to Read classes for parents at the library. The following agencies agreed to promote the classes to the parents they work with: County Corrections Probation Officers, County Mental Health, DHS Self Sufficiency and Public Health Department. If you aren't sure how to get the word out about your parent education sessions to families in your community you may want to try working with local agencies like these. If you have good ideas too please share them with us! All you have to do is hit "reply all" to this email and you're set to go. Thanks, Katie Katie Anderson, Library Development Services * Youth Services Consultant * Oregon Center for the Book Coordinator * Oregon State Library, 250 Winter St. NE, Salem, OR 97301 katie.anderson at state.or.us, 503-378-2528 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From anderson_katie at oslmac.osl.state.or.us Thu Jan 7 09:07:31 2010 From: anderson_katie at oslmac.osl.state.or.us (Katie Anderson) Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 09:07:31 -0800 Subject: [Reading-For-Healthy-Families] Library logs due In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Attention Library Staff: It is time to submit your monthly Reading for Healthy Families recording log used to keep track of the families you are presenting the Reading for Healthy Families (Every Child Ready to Read @ your library) curriculum to. A blank log is attached, or you can download and save the "Recording Log" to your computer from: http://www.oregon.gov/OSL/LD/youthsvcs/rfhf.recording.log.shtml#Recording_Log. Please email your completed log to me at katie.anderson at state.or.us. You can also print your completed log and fax it to 503-378-6439 or mail it to me at 250 Winter St. NE, Salem OR 97301. NOTE: The "Six Skills Overview" workshop is not on the drop-down menu under "Main Education Session Emphasized". If you presented this session, please select "Print Motivation" instead. Remember, you may not count childcare providers, preschool teachers, or other early childhood professionals because NPC Research and our funders are evaluating parent education specifically. However, we hope you won't exclude them from your early literacy education sessions. If you present sessions to early childhood professionals, please include these numbers in the body of your email when you send your completed recording log--it will be excellent addition data to support the program and demonstrate libraries commitment to early literacy. Thanks to all of you who have already submitted your recording logs! Take care, Katie Katie Anderson, Library Development Services * Youth Services Consultant * Oregon Center for the Book Coordinator * Oregon State Library, 250 Winter St. NE, Salem, OR 97301 katie.anderson at state.or.us, 503-378-2528 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Katie Anderson, Library Development Services * Youth Services Consultant * Oregon Center for the Book Coordinator * Oregon State Library, 250 Winter St. NE, Salem, OR 97301 katie.anderson at state.or.us, 503-378-2528 -----Original Message----- From: kids-lib-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us [mailto:kids-lib-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us] On Behalf Of The Libri Foundation Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 11:00 AM To: kids-lib at listsmart.osl.state.or.us Subject: [kids-lib] Grant Opportunity for Rural Libraries FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 2010 The Libri Foundation is currently accepting applications for its 2010 BOOKS FOR CHILDREN grants. The Libri Foundation is a nationwide non-profit organization which donates new, quality, hardcover children's books to small, rural public libraries throughout the United States. Since October 1990, the Foundation has donated over $4,000,000 worth of new children's books to more than 2,500 libraries in 49 states, including Alaska and Hawaii. In order to encourage and reward local support of libraries, The Libri Foundation will match any amount of money raised by your local sponsors from $50 to $350 on a 2-to-1 ratio. Thus, a library can receive up to $1,050 worth of new children's books. After a library receives a grant, local sponsors (such as formal or informal Friends groups, civic or social organizations, local businesses, etc.) have four months, or longer if necessary, to raise their matching funds. The librarian of each participating library selects the books her library will receive from a booklist provided by the Foundation. The 700-plus fiction and nonfiction titles on the booklist reflect the very best of children's literature published primarily in the last three years. These titles, which are for children ages 12 and under, are award-winners or have received starred reviews in library, literary, or education journals. The booklist also includes a selection of classic children's titles. Libraries are qualified on an individual basis. In general, county libraries should serve a population under 16,000 and town libraries should serve a population under 10,000 (usually under 5,000). Libraries should be in a rural area, have a limited operating budget, and an active children's department. Please note: Rural is usually considered to be at least 30 miles from a city with a population over 40,000. Town libraries with total operating budgets over $150,000 and county libraries with total operating budgets over $350,000 are rarely given grants. Applications are accepted from independent libraries as well as libraries which are part of a county, regional, or cooperative library system. A school library may apply only if it also serves as the public library (i.e. it is open to the everyone in the community, has some summer hours, and there is no public library in town). A branch library may apply if the community it is in meets the definition of rural. If the branch library receives its funding from its parent institution, then the parent institution's total operating budget, not just the branch library's total operating budget, must meet the budget guidelines. Previous BOOKS FOR CHILDREN grant recipients are eligible to apply for another grant three years after the receipt of their last grant. Libraries that do not fulfill all grant requirements, including the final report, may not apply for another grant. Application deadlines for 2010 are: (postmarked by) January 23rd (extended), April 15th, and August 15th. Grants are awarded January 31st, April 30th, and August 31st. Application guidelines and forms may be downloaded from the Foundation's website at: www.librifoundation.org. For more information about The Libri Foundation or its Books for Children program, please contact Ms. Barbara J. McKillip, President, The Libri Foundation, PO Box 10246, Eugene, OR 97440. 541-747-9655 (phone); 541-747-4348 (fax); libri at librifoundation.org (email). Normal office hours are: Monday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Pacific Time. _______________________________________________ Kids-lib mailing list Kids-lib at listsmart.osl.state.or.us http://listsmart.osl.state.or.us/mailman/listinfo/kids-lib Hosted by the Oregon State Library (503) 378-4246 From joanncontini at comcast.net Wed Jan 20 10:32:29 2010 From: joanncontini at comcast.net (Joann Contini) Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 05:32:29 +1100 Subject: [Reading-For-Healthy-Families] FW: Early Literacy Newsletter, January 2010 Message-ID: Joann Contini has forwarded you this email with the following message: I've just received this email and thought you might find it interesting.It is from Washington Learning Systems- the big black binder you received at RFHF. Materials now available in Cantonese and Mandarin. ----------------------------------------------------------------- EARLY LITERACY NEWSLETTER, JANUARY 2010 ----------------------------------------------------------------- This email is best viewed in your web browser. Click the link below to see it: http://washingtonlearningsystems.cmail5.com/t/y/e/uutdhh/l/ Research Brief for Administrators & Trainers ----------------------------------------------------------------- Find out what research says about early language and literacy development. Reach Out to Asian Families: New Free Materials ----------------------------------------------------------------- Does your early childhood program serve families who speak Mandarin or Cantonese? We have just posted our On-the-Go materials for free download to help these families promote early literacy at home. We also have On-the-Go materials in other Asian languages. These materials complement our Language is the Key video training programs. View the On-the-Go materials. [http://www.walearning.com/parent-tools/on-the-go/] The Art of Asking Questions ----------------------------------------------------------------- Asking questions of toddlers and preschoolers is a research-based strategy that builds language. But some questions are better at promoting language than others. See how to ask questions that build language. [http://www.walearning.com/articles/the-art-of-asking-questions/] ----------------------------------------------------------------- We sent this email to joanncontini at comcast.net. If you no longer wish to hear from us, click the link below to instantly unsubscribe: http://washingtonlearningsystems.cmail5.com/t/y/u/uutdhh/l/ Thanks, Washington Learning Systems -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From anderson_katie at oslmac.osl.state.or.us Thu Jan 21 15:59:06 2010 From: anderson_katie at oslmac.osl.state.or.us (Katie Anderson) Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:59:06 -0800 Subject: [Reading-For-Healthy-Families] Research for you Message-ID: <3BDF3629-F2BE-4617-8D19-2147E8FEC304@oslmac.osl.state.or.us> Hello! At Cohort 5 Training Session Two, I mentioned the paper "America's Early Childhood Literacy Gap" has great summaries, quotes, and bits of information from a variety of research. In particular, I mentioned that they reference three different instances in which government agencies use test scores to plan prisons. I've copied the quotes below, you can read them in context and find citations/bibliographic references on Page 6 of the document at http://www.readfortherecord.org/site/DocServer/America_s_Early_Childhood_Literacy_Gap.pdf?docID=3923. -"...because seven in ten prisoners perform at the lowest literacy skill levels, the state of California once planned how many jail cells they would build in the future by how many children are not reading on grade level by fourth grade." -"Indiana Senator Evan Bayh has stated that determining the number of new prisons to build is based, in part, on the number of second graders not reading at second-grade level." -"Dr. Grover (Russ) Whitehurst... Assistant Secretary of Education with the US Department of Education under the Bush administration stated that the predictability of reading for life success is so strong, that if you look at the proportion of middle-schoolers who are not at the basic level, who are really behind in reading, it is a very strong predictor of problems with the law and the need for jails down the line" I encourage you to take 5-10 minutes to quickly skim through this paper to remind yourself the tremendous value of the work you are doing, and to highlight quotes and information you want to use with parents or your programs/library boards in the future. Thank you, Katie Katie Anderson, Library Development Services * Youth Services Consultant * Oregon Center for the Book Coordinator * Oregon State Library, 250 Winter St. NE, Salem, OR 97301 katie.anderson at state.or.us, 503-378-2528 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From anderson_katie at oslmac.osl.state.or.us Fri Jan 22 16:11:17 2010 From: anderson_katie at oslmac.osl.state.or.us (Katie Anderson) Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:11:17 -0800 Subject: [Reading-For-Healthy-Families] Good deals on giveaway books Message-ID: <4368E6C5-7950-4D7E-8628-F154665D04F7@oslmac.osl.state.or.us> Hello! I'm familiar with Star Bright books, but I recently learned about some services and deals that you all may be very interested in: 1) They offer special discounts to meet the needs of literacy projects, including big discounts if you are using their books as giveaways for children and families to keep! 2) They will publish any of their books in any language with a minimum order of 500 books--you may have to provide the translation. 500 seems like a lot of books, but if you partner with each other you may quickly find homes for all of them and people willing to share the cost! 3) Customize a welcome baby bag--prices vary depending on the content and quantities. Here is the link to learn more about these special services: http://www.starbrightbooks.org/services.php Here is the link to their books: http://www.starbrightbooks.org/books.php Hopefully some of you will find this useful! Katie Katie Anderson, Library Development Services * Youth Services Consultant * Oregon Center for the Book Coordinator * Oregon State Library, 250 Winter St. NE, Salem, OR 97301 katie.anderson at state.or.us, 503-378-2528 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From anderson_katie at oslmac.osl.state.or.us Thu Jan 28 12:53:02 2010 From: anderson_katie at oslmac.osl.state.or.us (Katie Anderson) Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:53:02 -0800 Subject: [Reading-For-Healthy-Families] parent brochures Message-ID: <1FC96420-BD95-4965-A677-39E3297473E6@oslmac.osl.state.or.us> Hello! I just got a great question from a RFHF participant. Her program is interested in the official Every Child Ready to Read @ your library parent brochures, and she wanted to know where to get them. The brochures are available in English and Spanish. I thought some of you may want to know too! You can download and print them yourself at: http://www.lita.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/ecrr/workshopsab/workshopmaterials/parentguidebrochuresa/parentguidebrochures.cfm You can purchase them from ALA at: http://www.alastore.ala.org/SearchResult.aspx?CategoryID=204 Enjoy, Katie Katie Anderson, Library Development Services * Youth Services Consultant * Oregon Center for the Book Coordinator * Oregon State Library, 250 Winter St. NE, Salem, OR 97301 katie.anderson at state.or.us, 503-378-2528 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The long answer is take one more step: However, we recommend the family have some small early literacy goal or assignment they have to accomplish to earn this privilege. Here are a few examples: 1) A family has to read to their baby 15 minutes a day, 4 times during one week to "pay off" their library fines 2) A family has to attend 1 storytime at the library to "pay off" their library fines 3) A family has to do 3 of the point-of-contact activities in one week to "pay off" their fines Hopefully this helps you start thinking about new ideas for using your program's $200 to help connect Healthy Start families with the library. Katie Katie Anderson, Library Development Services * Youth Services Consultant * Oregon Center for the Book Coordinator * Oregon State Library, 250 Winter St. NE, Salem, OR 97301 katie.anderson at state.or.us, 503-378-2528 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: