The Louisiana Partnership for Children & Families held their Annual Meeting and Legislative Wrap-up on June 15, 2017 in Port Allen. Attendees heard from key community leaders about the legislative and financial impact from the decisions made during this past general session. Click to download the 2017 Legislative Session Bill Watch Report.
Legislative Panelists were:
- Child Health - Ashley Politz, American Academy of Pediatrics/LA Chapter
- Child Welfare - Carmen Weisner, National Association of Social Workers/LA Chapter
- Juvenile Justice - Aaron Clark-Rizzio, Louisiana Center for Children's Rights
- Vulnerable Children & Families - Ashley Shelton, The Power Coalition
- Budget - Jan Moller, Louisiana Budget Project
- Early Childhood Education and General Government - Susan Nelson, LPCF Governmental
Advocacy for Children & Families
2017 Legislative Bills - Updated April 28, 2017 
2017 Louisiana Partnership Regional Meetings Completed:
INVESTING IN OUR CHILDREN
Another successful series of meetings! Thanks to all who attended! We met in nine cities across the state in March and April and this year, the Louisiana Budget Project joined us. The meetings featured legislative updates, pre-filed legislation impacting children and families and an incredible budget discussion on ways to invest in children. All information from the meetings is available below and available for your use. Questions or need more information, let us know. Many thanks to the Huey and Angelina Wilson Foundation for their generous financial support of the regional meetings and to our partners across the state who hosted the meetings: Catholic Charities/Houma-Thibodaux; Picard Center for Child Development/Lafayette; Family and Youth Counseling/Lake Charles; United Way of Southeast Louisiana/New Orleans; Team Dynamics/Hammond; United Way of Central Louisiana/Alexandria; Step Forward Initiative/Shreveport; Children’s Coalition for Northeast Louisiana/Monroe; and Children’s Coalition of Greater Baton Rouge.
Handouts from Meetings
Generous support for these meetings provided by the Huey and Angelina Wilson Foundation.
| Child Care Restoration! The Partnership is
pleased to announce that we have received funding from American Red Cross, Long
Term Recovery, to help Type III early learning centers that flooded in August
2016. Watch this site for updates on our work.
The Louisiana Platform for Children offers a series of policy briefs outlining issues affecting children and proposing sound recommendations for ways in which to improve outcomes in the areas of child health, child welfare/foster care, early childhood education, social emotional development, juvenile justice and family economic stability. Read the full Platform for Children Report or the executive summary. NEW! 2016 Platform Update - Review the impact since the report was completed. For more information, send an email to: platform@louisianapartnership.org. Key partners in this project include:
The Platform for Children is available on the websites of all of these organizations. Platform Meeting in Monroe on the News (includes embedded advertising from television station): Get Involved! Please share comments on the Platform here.Your organization is encouraged to partner with us and lend support! Please send an email to Louisiana Partnership indicating your interest as a supporting partner. Sign up for updates on the Platform for Children - send us an email to let us know you want to be kept in the loop! Share a copy of the Platform for Children on your website. Click here to let us know how we can help you share this information in your community. |
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Save the Date! 2017 Annual Meeting The Louisiana Partnership will hold its annual membership meeting and Legislative Review for Children and Families on Thursday, June 15, 2017. Join us as we review what happened during the 2017 Legislative Session. Attendance at the annual meeting is no charge to our members. If you’re not a member, please join online today. Click here to join. Thanks to all of you who are our members! 2016 Legislative Wrap-Up & Annual Meeting
The Legislative Wrap-Up and Annual Meeting were held on June 16, 2016 in Port Allen, LA. The meeting also served as the official monthly meeting of the Louisiana Children's Cabinet Advisory Board. The following documents were shared at the meeting:
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Helping Children in Times of Disaster
Children, especially young children, respond in many different ways following a disaster. These two outstanding books, co-authored by Baton Rouge's own Cate Heroman, offer outstanding resources for parents and caregivers. Many thanks to Cate for sharing this information!
HOW CHILDREN BEHAVE AFTER A TRAUMATIC EVENT
Excerpt from HELPING CHILDREN REBOUND by Cate Heroman and Jenna Bilmes:
Young children have a hard time adjusting to change and loss. They cannot grasp the concept of permanent loss and often see consequences as reversible. When they experience the flood firsthand, they may feel helpless and powerless. Because they lack the ability to protect themselves or others, they feel intense fear and insecurity. Young children are beginning to develop coping skills, but they often do not have the language to express their feelings.
Children react to stress in different ways and will recover from a disaster at different rates. The degree to which they are affected depends on factors such as these:
- how close they were to the disaster (e.g., whether they were rescued by boat or saw news coverage of rescues)
- how quickly their basic physical needs were met
- their family situation before the flood (e.g., divorce, new baby, moving to a new school)
- how their family members react to the disaster
- their disposition and resiliency
In the weeks following the flood, young children's play may reflect aspects of the event. They may reenact a particular incident repeatedly. Over time, you should see the play progress from reenacting destruction to becoming hopeful and moving on. For example, you may initially see play focused on destruction such as building blocks and knocking them down. As children work through their feelings over time, their play might progress to pretending to be a construction worker who is rebuilding houses. Whether this play progression occurs will give you some insight into how well children are adjusting.
To read more, download this free two resources:
The Raising of America Series: Early Childhood and the Future of Our Nation View the video series trailer (11 minutes) It’s often said a society can be measured by how well it attends to its children—their health and safety, their material security, their education and socialization, and their sense of being loved and valued by their families and communities. So how is it that children in the U.S. have worse outcomes on most measures of health, education and well-being than other rich nations? How can we do better? The Raising of America takes us inside the brain and brings to life recent scientific research that reveals how early experiences, beginning in the womb, can alter brain architecture and developmental trajectories. Through the stories of families from different walks of life, we discover how the lack of paid parental leave and high-quality affordable childcare, stagnant wages and overcrowded housing, depression and social exclusion, and perhaps most of all the time crunch, too often undermine the efforts of parents and caregivers struggling to provide the nurturing environments all children need to thrive. By exploring how things got this way—the history of U.S. child and family policy over the past century, the victories as well as the defeats—The Raising of America seeks to better understand what stands in the way of progress, and what we can do better. The film lifts up those struggling to make good on a vision where all our children matter, all are nurtured and all have opportunities to thrive. For more information, click here. |
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