Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems: ECCS

Ensuring a strong start for all children can reduce vulnerabilities and prevent ACEs, but it requires collaboration and co-ownership of strategies and solutions. This newsletter provides updates on SD ECCS activities and also provide external learning opportunities, resources and news to increase our shared understanding and ability to ensure a strong start for all South Dakota children.

Bright Lights Webinar

A new webinar series launches this month through CPCM’s Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems collaborative. The Bright Lights webinar series will feature innovative collaborations across the comprehensive early childhood landscape. This webinar series showcases the successes and outcomes achieved through collaborative, cross-sector or agency efforts designed to ensure a strong start for children.

Make plans to join us online on November 19 at 12:00pm CT for “Maternal Child Health and Medicaid Collaboration” presented by Shannon Muchow, Carrie Churchill, and Valerie Kelly.

https://sdcpcm.com/events/eccs-bright-light-1119/

Empowering Families Retreat a Success

Center for the Prevention of Child Maltreatment’s Early Childhood Comprehensive System proudly co-hosted the recent Empowering Families Retreat, in partnership with the South Dakota Statewide Family Engagement Center. Our attendees had the opportunity to participate in a variety of learning activities, self-care time, and more. Keynote Annie Neimand, Ph.D., an expert in storytelling and social change, provided a session on how to use your unique story to advocate for your family’s needs and create a supportive environment for your children. Thank you to all of the attendees who were able to join us!

ECCS Family Leadership Group Accepting Applications

A few days remain for parents with young children to apply to be a member of the ECCS Family Leadership Group. The insight and feedback Family Leaders provide is extremely important to ECCS’s mission of improving child health outcomes in South Dakota. Family Leaders receive a $60 Amazon gift card for each meeting they attend. Click here for the application and additional information.   Please contact Darbi Hunt with any questions at [email protected] or 605-641-6382.

WIC-CIAO Trainings

• Cultural Competency series includes seven courses.
• Empathy and Person First is a 55 minute course.
• The Process and Practice of Cultural Humility and Maintaining Cultural Sensitivity When Working with Families are also available to view online.
• All WIC-CIAO trainings provide completion certificates.

Fatherhood Training Series

• This 6-session series has Continuing Education Units pre-approved for online course completion by: SD Board of Examiners for Counselors and Marriage & Family Therapists, SD Board of Addiction and Prevention Professionals, SD Board of Social Work Examiners (University of South Dakota – Provider #1048)
• Access the series here: SDCPCM.com/general/fatherhood-training-series/

Let’s Connect!

If you would like to learn more about the SD ECCS efforts, provide feedback, or share more about your efforts to ensure a strong start for South Dakota’s youngest children, please email [email protected]. Are you working on some of these goals and strategies–or could they be included in your plans and activities? We’d love to learn more, collaborate, and celebrate your work.