Quality Caregiving

We here at Community Helping Place have been caught up in a long process of identifying and providing comprehensive assessments for our Family Wellness Workshops. This has been a long and complicated process but we finally had our first educational workshop on Saturday with great participation! We are so pleased with the event and can't wait for the next one. In the meantime, our families are meeting with case managers for individual case planning and work on their family goals. Lots of great things have been happening!

Georgia has one of the highest infant-mortality rates in the country, scoring an "F" by the March of Dimes. This article by the AJC highlights this year's push for a 2024 home visit pilot program for at-risk and underserved pregnant women. Many of these women live in rural areas that lack obstetrical care.

"The overall goals of home visiting programs are to promote healthy pregnancies, improve parenting skills and reduce child abuse and neglect. Other support for families includes clinical services such as blood-pressure monitoring, wellness and postpartum checks. Women eligible include those at high risk of pregnancy complications and those with chronic health conditions, including HIV."

This toolkit from the Office of Adolescent Health provides resources to help your organization better serve young fathers. The information provided can be used to identify fathers most in need of services, update statistics presented in program curricula, and inform policy decisions about gaps in services.

The report includes:

• Serving Young Fathers: Important things to know and how they make a difference.
• An assessment and checklist for your organization.
• A workbook of program activities.
• Recruiting Young Fathers: 5 things to know.
• Retaining Young Fathers: 5 things to know.

How "young-father-friendly" is your organization?

Hello Quality Caregiving Community!

This is the story of Mia:

CHOA's Strong for Life has resources for raising resilience in children across childhood. You can find sources for families to promote resilience in there families through this link.

Hello Quality Caregiving Community!

I want to share Resilient Georgia's Four Building Blocks of HOPE handout with you.

These building blocks of HOPE (Healthy Outcomes from Positive Experiences) include:

1. Relationships: nurturing, supportive relationships (parents/caregivers, adults outside of the family, peers).
2. Environment: safe, stable, and equitable environments to live, learn, and play in (home, school, community).
3. Engagement: social engagement to develop a sense of connectedness.
4. Opportunities: for social and emotional development.

These four building blocks can facilitate Positives Childhood Experiences (PCEs) that buffer against the negative life-long effects of ACEs.

How are these building blocks being fostered in your community?

What does the term “quality caregiving” mean to you?