From katie.anderson at state.or.us Tue May 4 12:31:26 2010 From: katie.anderson at state.or.us (Katie Anderson) Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 19:31:26 +0000 Subject: [Reading-For-Healthy-Families] Oregon Helps website Message-ID: <640435851FD7CB4AB3C4BE0D1963BA241B21C9@OSLEXCHANGE.osl.state.or.us.local> Posted on behalf of Gretchen Dursch, Oregon Helps, dursch at nwlink.com. >>>>>>>>>> Families can learn about their eligibility for services quickly, easily and privately! Oregon Helps is pleased to announce its award winning website at www.OregonHelps.org just got even better! To date, over 28,000 Oregonians have used the site to quickly and easily learn about their eligibility for services from a computer in the privacy of their home, local library, friend?s house or a non-profit agency. Now the site has been completely upgraded and is even more user friendly and accurate! Oregon Helps is a free and easy to use web-based self screening tool that asks visitors a few questions about their income and expenses. The site then estimates their potential eligibility for 33 federal, state and local services?such as food stamps (now known as SNAP), Women Infants and Children (WIC), Oregon Health Plan, Housing Subsidy, Employment-Related Child Care, and Working Family Tax Credit. It even includes services specific to each of the 36 counties in Oregon. It then provides the visitor with information about how to apply for each of those services. Any information provided is completely confidential and anonymous ? the program never even asks for the visitor?s name! Visitors conduct the self screening in four languages: English, Spanish, Russian and Vietnamese. Oregon Helps at www.OregonHelps.org has transformed the often frustrating and time consuming process of seeking social services or assistance. Instead of making numerous phone calls or driving to different locations, consumers can learn about available services in a short session (5-15 minutes) that can be completed on any computer with Internet access. Oregon Helps sessions can happen anywhere, anytime, and as many times as one wants. We need your help in getting the word out. Please forward this email announcement to all your contacts and networks. To order or download flyers & posters, find a short article you can put in your newsletters, and learn how to provide a link to Oregon Helps from your own website, go to: www.oregonhelps.org/information. Together we can combat poverty by increasing low income families and individuals access to services throughout Oregon! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From katie.anderson at state.or.us Thu May 6 11:22:59 2010 From: katie.anderson at state.or.us (Katie Anderson) Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 18:22:59 +0000 Subject: [Reading-For-Healthy-Families] Best children's booklist now online Message-ID: <640435851FD7CB4AB3C4BE0D1963BA241B2FD6@OSLEXCHANGE.osl.state.or.us.local> In honor of the 100th anniversary of the Children's Book Committee at the Bank Street College, their list of the best children's and teen books from 2009 is available free online! Please check out the list and recommend it to other librarians, your young patrons and their families, and everyone you know who will enjoy this new online resource: http://www.bnkst.edu/bookcom/ Here is a direct link to the booklist for children under 5 years old: http://webstaging.bankstreet.edu/gems/bookcom/UnderFiveicons.pdf Each year the Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College reviews over 6,000 children's and young adult books and creates an annual list of the year's best. Its printed lists have always been a valuable resource, but this year the list is available free online for the first time! The list is organized by age and by category--so, for example, if you're looking for an adventure story for a seven-year-old, a nonfiction science book for a nine-year-old, or an historical novel for an eleven-year-old, you can find it easily. 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 joanncontini at comcast.net Tue May 11 10:07:50 2010 From: joanncontini at comcast.net (Joann Contini) Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 10:07:50 -0700 Subject: [Reading-For-Healthy-Families] Bilingual story book ideas needed Message-ID: <002a01caf12c$7cfa6480$76ef2d80$@net> Hello RFHF folks Your input is once again requested. For next year, we would like to select a good bilingual English/Spanish book to add to the 4 story time books in the big black resources bag. The ones we have now are: . Fuzzy Bee and Friends by Roger Priddy (cloth book) . Tails by Matthew Van Fleet (touch and feel board book) . The Wide-Mouthed Frog by Keith Faulkner and Jonathan Lambert (pop-up book) . Knick Knack Paddywhack by Paul O. Zelinsky (book with CD) Please send ideas and any ordering information you may have to me at: joanncontini at comcast.net in the next two weeks. Thank you very much. Joann Joann M. Contini RFHF Project Coordinator 503.761.2506 joanncontini at comcast.net For more information about Reading for Healthy Families, please visit our website at: http://www.oregon.gov/OSL/LD/youthsvcs/rfhf.home.page.shtml. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: