Our first peer-reviewed article about Roots of Resilience has been published in Children and Youth Services Review!

Our initial results from the first two pilots indicate that the online-based course and coaching is feasible,

 increases knowledge, and applied practice.

For a brief summary of the article, click here:

Strengthening Children’s Roots of Resilience_Brief

The full article can be accessed at:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0190740919301859

We would like to thank our teachers for their participation and feedback to help ensure future teachers would benefit from Roots of Resilience.

Roots of Resilience will be presenting research at the Society for the Study of Human Development 11th Biennial Meeting in Portland, OR. This meeting will focus on Stress, Resilience, and Character Development across the Life Span.

Friday evening will feature Roots of Resilience team member, Aubrey Sills and her poster “Parenting, household chaos, and children’s stress system activity as predictors of externalizing behaviors in preschool.”  Our team will also be presenting the poster “Teacher-child relationships moderate effects of adverse childhood experiences on social and behavioral skills and problems in preschool.”

Sunday afternoon’s Relationship-oriented Interventions to Promote Resilience among Children and Youth who have Experienced Adversity Symposium will feature Dr. Shannon Lipscomb, presenting hot-off-the-press data from our recent data collection.

Our ever-busy research team will also be presenting non-Roots of Resilience research as well!

Hillary Lewis will be presenting additional posters on Friday evening: “Adverse childhood experiences and family-teacher relationships in early care and education” and “Children’s activity in the stress response system within preschool classrooms: The role of classroom quality.”

Jamie Jaramillo will be presenting in the same symposium as Dr. Lipscomb on “Supporting Siblings in Foster Care: Nurturing Relationships and Resilience among Youth in Foster Care.”

Hope to see you there!

Your partners in resilience,

The Roots of Resilience Research Team

We are currently recruiting teachers for Fall 2018 Roots of Resilience: Teacher’s Awakening Children’s Healing!

The FREE professional development programs supports teachers to support children who may have experienced trauma.

Please look at our recruitment flyer for more information or contact us for more information!

Recent Human Development and Family Sciences graduate, Alicia Miao, was awarded one of two Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) post-doctoral state policy fellowships. She will be mentored by Dr. Shannon Lipscomb.

Both Alicia and Dr. Lipscomb are part of the Oregon School Readiness Research Consortium, led by Professor Megan McClelland, as well as Andy Mashburn at PSU and Katherine Pears at the Oregon Social Learning Center in Eugene. Alicia will work with the Oregon Early Learning Division on policy relevant questions related to school readiness.

Roots of Resilience: Teachers Awakening Children’s Healing is looking for early learning teachers for our second year of development.

Roots of Resilience is an online professional development program about the impact of trauma on children and how early learning teachers can strengthen resilience. The program consists on an online course and a video-based coaching program. This year, teachers can choose to do either the course or the coaching or both! Teachers will receive 30 hours of Set Two training for the online course and 2 hours of Set One training and 6 hours of Set Two training for the coaching.

Are you interested in gaining knowledge and skills about working with children who have experienced trauma? Do you believe there are children in your care who may have been exposed to child abuse or neglect, domestic violence, parents with untreated mental health or substance abuse problems? Our free online program could be a good fit for your learning needs.

Contact emiko.goka-dubose@osucascades.edu for more information.

Join our Roots of Resilience team at this year’s Oregon Parenting Educators Conference on May 22nd at Oregon State University in Corvallis! We will be presenting posters regarding the online course and coaching portions of our first pilot year.

Hope to see you there!

The first validation study of Oregon’s Quality Rating and Improvement System (QRIS) is complete! Dr. Lipscomb posted the report here on our Connect Research Group website.

The Central Oregon Regional Health  Assessment Expanded Early Childhood Wellbeing Data Report: Early Learning, Education, and Wellness focuses on the conditions, health & wellbeing, and education of children in Central Oregon.For the full report, visit: www.earlylearninghubco.org.

Connect Research Group team members Dr. Lipscomb and Ms. Goka-Dubose collaborated on this report together with the Early Learning Hub of Central Oregon and its partners.

We are excited to announce that our online professional development program for early childhood teachers has started. Are you interested in gaining knowledge and skills about working with children who have experienced trauma? Do you believe there are children in your care who may have been exposed to child abuse or neglect, domestic violence, parents with untreated mental health or substance abuse problems? Our free online program could be a good fit for your learning needs.

Contact emiko.goka-dubose@osucascades.edu for more information!

We are looking for early learning teachers interested in an exciting new professional development opportunity beginning this Spring!

Filming Interactions to Nurture Development (FIND)

• 6 week program of weekly 10-15 minutes of video-recording regular activities with children and 30-45 minutes of online web-based education and video coaching
• Positive, strength-based approach
• Based on the concept of “Serve and Return” interactions between adults and children (Center of Developing Child at Harvard University)
• Designed to reduce provider/teacher stress, increase sense of competence, and to reinforce and strengthen supportive interactions with children

If You Participate, You Will Receive:

• Up to 5 hours Step 1 Oregon Registry Training hours
• Education about Serve and Return
• Support in strengthening current practices
• Hardware and technology support

To Learn More or Sign Up, Please Contact the Roots of Resilience team at OSU-Cascades:

• Emiko Goka-Dubose, Project Coordinator
• 541-322-3121, emiko.goka-dubose@osucascades.edu

Please Note: This is part of the development process of the Roots of Resilience: Teachers Awakening Children’s Healing– an online professional development program for early childhood educators about the impacts of early childhood trauma. If you are interested in being part of the 20 week pilot program (starting Fall, 2016), including online modules and additional video coaching, please continue to check-in with our News and Updates!