Parents & Guardians Archives - Washington County Kids

Activities

Khan Academy: Free practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard for K-14 in math, science, computing, history, art history, economics, and more, including test preparation (SAT, Praxis, LSAT) content.
Who Am I: Activities that adolescents can engage in to develop their sense of self identity
Activities provided by our friends at Centro Cultural
Get OMSI's help and do science experiments at home
Educational content on Netflix: Include educational programming in your viewing time

Child Abuse

Youth Contact: mental health treatment
Child Abuse Awareness (WA County Sheriff resource): Kody Harris Kody_harris@co.washington.or.us Hotline 503-681-6917
CARES NW: Child abuse evaluation and treatment

Childcare

Harmony SEL (Social Emotional Learning): Free curriculum on SEL (social emotional learning)
Spanish Health and Safety Guidelines for Childcare Oregon: Spanish Health & Safety Guidelines videos from Child Care Resource and Referral of Washington County, Oregon, created to be a tool for child care providers in communicating about the guidelines to parents/families.
Health & Safety Guidelines for Child Care - Oregon: Health & Safety Guidelines videos from Child Care Resource and Referral of Washington County, Oregon, created to be a tool for child care providers in communicating about the guidelines to parents/families.
NBC's Brian Williams on Summer Learning Loss: Video showing graphic effects of summer learning loss (2014)
Supporting Positive Behavior at Home: Parent support speaker series

Covid

Spanish Health and Safety Guidelines for Childcare Oregon: Spanish Health & Safety Guidelines videos from Child Care Resource and Referral of Washington County, Oregon, created to be a tool for child care providers in communicating about the guidelines to parents/families.
Health & Safety Guidelines for Child Care - Oregon: Health & Safety Guidelines videos from Child Care Resource and Referral of Washington County, Oregon, created to be a tool for child care providers in communicating about the guidelines to parents/families.
We Keep Each Other Safe - a guide by and for Black, Indigenous, Latinx, POc, and LGBTQ communities navigating the COVID-19 pandemic: Designed by and for our communities to help us keep each other safe during the pandemic and to support all of us in getting the best care possible if any of us or any of our loved ones become sick with COVID-19.
CDC: Covid related resources about wearing and making masks for your protection

General

Harmony SEL (Social Emotional Learning): Free curriculum on SEL (social emotional learning)
America's Childcare Crisis on The Daily Show: America's childcare crisis is obvious to many Americans; Trevor Noah gets it and explains it well!
Why a kid's relationship with teachers is more important than ever: Here’s how to make sure your child isn’t sitting in the virtual back row. Pandemic or not, students perform better when they have a good relationship with their teacher. And studies have shown that a supportive teacher-student relationship positively impacts students beyond the classroom, while a negative one can stymie a child’s academic and social-emotional development.
Supporting Positive Behavior at Home: Parent support speaker series
Clackamas Parenting

Local School Districts

Mental Health

Harmony SEL (Social Emotional Learning): Free curriculum on SEL (social emotional learning)
Lines for Life: Need help? Let’s talk! The YouthLine is a free and confidential teen-to-teen mental health support and crisis line for youth. Teens can reach out every day from 4PM-10PM PST to talk to a trained peer about whatever they need support with. No problem is too big or too small for YouthLine! YouthLine is available by phone call, text, chat, and email. For more information, visit www.oregonyouthline.org, call 877-968-8491, or text “teen2teen” to 839-863.
Youth Contact: mental health treatment
CARES NW: Child abuse evaluation and treatment
Sequoia Mental Health Services: Therapy

Racism

State of Access and Equity: Report on Oregon provider survey, focus groups, and interviews looking at equity and access barriers for out of school time programs
Kids tough questions: How to have discussions about racism with your kids

Training / Education

Harmony SEL (Social Emotional Learning): Free curriculum on SEL (social emotional learning)
MESA (Mathematics Engineering Science Achievement): MESA's mission is to provide students underrepresented in STEM fields with opportunities. Invention Clubs are an opportunity for 5th to 12th-grade students who do not have a MESA chapter at their school or are home school students, to participate in the MESA experience. Students must also qualify for free/reduced lunch in order to participate.
Resources for remote learning: Washington County Cooperative Library Services

Why out of school time matters

History of Afterschool

This video of the history of afterschool also talks about current issues and the future of afterschool.

America's Childcare Crisis on The Daily Show: America's childcare crisis is obvious to many Americans; Trevor Noah gets it and explains it well!

Reports

In 2018 Meyer Memorial Trust supported a series of Community Conversations and an online survey for parents and guardians. Their responses documented their experiences with obtaining and using early childhood, afterschool, and summer care for their kids and youth. WCK produced the 2019 “Imperative to Act” report and “Executive Summary” reviewing research on the topic, outlining the results of parent and guardian experiences, and making recommendations for further action.:

Download The Imperative to Act Report

Download The Imperative to Act Executive Summary