Resource Center for Family Focused Practice, UC Davis

Resource Center for Family Focused Practice, UC Davis

As part of the Center for Human Services at UC Davis Extension, the Resource Center for Family-Focused Practice serves the multidisciplinary human services needs of organizations with an emphasis on family-centered practice. In partnership with the California Department of Social Services, the Resource Center provides research, custom and standardized training, technical support, symposia and support services with the goal of integrating practice approaches to improve outcomes for children and families.

Edutopia: Social and Emotional Learning

Working to improve public schools with resources, tools, and solutions for teachers, administrators, and parents. Find and share resources for creating a healthy school culture by helping students develop skills to manage their emotions, resolve conflicts, and make responsible decisions.

• Teaching Self-Regulation in the Early Grades Nov 2018
  Activating young students’ natural bodily rhythms helps them regulate their nervous systems and prepare for learning. Here are four strategies for helping students regulate their responses.
• Building a Positive Staff Culture Takes Work May 2018
  If schools want a strong collegial atmosphere, they need to foster it intentionally—both across the school and on smaller scales.
• Keeping the Focus on the Positive Jan 2018

• Additional Resources from Edutopia
  • How a District Integrates SEL with Academics
  • Creating Safety and Attachment for Students with Trauma Nov 2017
  • Edutopia: Building Social and Emotional Skills in Elementary Students: Passion and Strengths
    From Project Happiness this nine-part series looks at important factors that influence the happiness and social and emotional learning of elementary school age children. These are very useful in helping students learn, manage emotions better and increase empathy. Included are activities and curriculum to build social and emotional skills in elementary students.
  • The Research Behind Social and Emotional Learning
  • Empathy: The Most Important Back to School Supply
  • Seven Questions to Ask Parents at the Beginning of the Year
  • Relationship Building Through Culturally Responsive Classroom Management
  • Social Emotional Learning: A Schoolwide Approach
    Strategies like mindfulness, emotional regulation, and supportive small groups help Symonds meet the academic and social needs of their students.
  • Empathy In the Classroom: Why Should I Care?
  • The Long Game: 4 Essentials for a Successful Mindfulness Program
  • Social Emotional Learning: A Schoolwide Approach
    Strategies like mindfulness, emotional regulation, and supportive small groups help Symonds meet the academic and social needs of their students.
  • Response to Intervention: Safe Places for Math and Literacy (video of a charter school’s success)
  • Helping Students Who Experienced Trauma
  • How to Implement Social and Emotional Learning at Your School
  • “It’s Not What’s Wrong with the Children, It’s What’s Happened to Them”
  • Resources for Creating a Radically Compassionate Classroom
    Manifesting the magic of compassion within the four walls of your classroom may not always be an easy task, but it’s a darn worthy one. That being said, we only can give what we have. Reflect on yourself for a second: Where are you with compassion for yourself? When was the last time you checked that barometer?

Spina Bifida Association (SBA)

The Spina Bifida Association (SBA) serves adults and children who live with the challenges of Spina Bifida. Since 1973, SBA has been the only national voluntary health agency solely dedicated to enhancing the lives of those with Spina Bifida and those whose lives are touched by this challenging birth defect. Its tools are education, advocacy, research, and service.

Through its network of Chapters, SBA has a presence in more than 125 communities nationwide and touches thousands of people each year. Lives are changed by the programs SBA has created, the services provided, and the results of our advocacy efforts.

Prader-Willi California Foundation

Since 1979 Prader-Willi California Foundation has been dedicated to supporting people with Prader-Willi syndrome, their families, and the professionals who serve them. PWCF is funded by donations, grants, membership dues, and events.

Great Kids!

This educational website, supported by several well-respected organizations and foundations, provides educational resources for parents and educators aimed at preschool through high school. It addresses learning issues, parenting, academics and “the whole child” that includes emotional smarts, early learning, and the child’s brain.

• Books that explore feelings for preK to 1st grade July 2018
  Did you know building your child’s vocabulary can help academically as well as socially? Use these books to explore a range of feeling words with your preschooler, kindergartner and first grader. Discover more books about emotions for second to third grade and fourth to fifth grade.
• Do You Feel Me? Feeling Words Game July 2018
  Build emotional smarts, one word at a time! Here’s how to play: Each of these kids has a story to tell about a time they felt something deeply. Watch these videos with your child and see if you can guess which emotions they’re describing.
• Tools for Families, developed by the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, will help your family resolve conflicts, foster positive relationships, and build your children’s emotional intelligence. Check out “Do You Feel Me?” video, the feeling words game to play with your kids or your students.
• Why It’s Better for My Daughter to Feel Sad Than Fine

American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD)

AAIDD promotes progressive policies, sound research, effective practices, and universal human rights for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Hands and Voices

Hands & Voices is a non-profit, parent-driven organization dedicated to supporting families of children who are deaf or hard of hearing. We are non-biased about communication methodologies and believe that families can make the best choices for their child if they have access to good information and support. Our membership includes families who communicate manually and/or orally. From American Sign Language to cochlear implants, our organization represents people from all different approaches to, and experiences with, deafness or hearing loss. We have local chapters comprised mainly of parents along with professionals. If you’re interested in opening a Hands & Voices group in your area, just contact us via this website for more information.

National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke

Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Autism

• New Data on Autism Published: April 2018
  The incidence of autism in 2018 is 1 in 59.
• Autism
• Signs and Symptons
• Links to Autism Resources
• Learn the Signs Act Early
• Autism Case Training (ACT)
• Autism Case Training Videos

Winter 2016 (PDF)

Topics in this issue include: Introducing the Federal Policy Statement on Inclusion of Children with Disabilities in Early Childhood Programs.