Bloomfield School District

Parents Reaching Out is having their annual Family Leadership Conference Thursday, April 13 in Albuquerque.

This annual Family Leadership Conference helps families and youth improve their skills in advocating and impacting the systems that affect them. The event includes networking opportunities with participants from around the state and curated workshops providing important and applicable information and perspectives to families and professionals.
For Registration and more info please click HERE.

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  Family Engagement in Early Literacy (FEEL)

 Are you interested in exciting new ways of building positive relationships and memories with young children? We welcome all families currently engaged in Home Visiting across New Mexico to attend virtual sessions where, together we will:

• Explore why early literacy is important in the lives of young children and their families
• Provide families with strategies to expand emergent literacy habits within routines and environments
• Connect families with tools and community resources that promote early literacy

    No cost, fun incentives, certificates

On Wednesday's starting  April 19, 4-5 p.m. (MT) 

 Register HERE

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We need your input!  New Mexico’s new early childhood department — formed in 2020 as one of the first in the nation — is growing for you. If you take care of young ones ages 0–5, we need your help understanding what early childhood programs you use, what works well about them, and what improvements could be made to make them better for you and your family. Please take the survey HERE and give your input.

 

COMMUNITY & SCHOOLS

NMAEYC started off the month with a full crowd at UNM over the weekend, with a jam packed agenda and powerful presentations.  The Week of the Young Child continues with The Navajo Nation Early Childhood Collaborative  hosting many celebrations.

It's  a week's worth of fun, family-friendly, and engaging activities. Each day is themed and will feature activities correlating with each theme. The public is invited to these free events. Below is a general flyer for Week of the Young Child. Contact information is provided  if you have any questions. 
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SOCIAL – EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND REGULATION: FOUNDATIONS OF LEARNING AND RELATIONSHIPS

CYFD in collaboration with NMSU Center of Innovation for Behavioral Health and Wellbeing invite you to join them in exploring how the development of social-emotional skills first begin with the fundamental understanding that children need supportive relationships to develop the capacity for self-regulation.   

• Training Date: April 14, 2023  from  8:45 a.m. – 12 p.m. 
• Register here

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Save the date for the LANL Foundation Early Childhood Team’s next FREE virtual training.

On Wednesday, April 19^th from 11:00am-12:30pm, Zoe Migel will be presenting: Supporting Children with Autism. This training will give you a basic understanding of autism, resources needed to help guide you and your child(ren), and basic strategies to help you work with children who have autism. Please click HERE for the  registration link.