What’s New at DCRC? (Fall 2016)

Building Your Bounce Adult Professional Development Learning Series – In this newest resource, the importance of adult resilience is brought to life with Dr. Nefertiti Bruce Poyner serving as moderator, teacher, and inspirational coach! If you are looking for new ways to help your staff stay healthy, engaged and to feel empowered about the important work that they do, you should consider this newest DCRC professional development resource.  Click here to see more information about this 3 part learning series. Get started by learning more here.

Our 2017 Professional Development Calendar is posted – Check it out here.

NAEYC – Will you be in Los Angeles in November?  The DCRC team would love to connect with any of you who will be attending the conference.  Please email DCRC dcrc@devereux.org and we will coordinate a good meeting time!

DCRC’s International Reach – The DCRC team is proud that our resilience assessments have been translated and are used by programs serving children on every continent (except Antarctica).  Check out this map to learn more about the countries using DCRC assessments to support the overall health and wellbeing of children across the globe.

Share the Power of Resilience – If you are looking for a simple yet powerful explanation of resilience, look no further.  Rachel Wagner explains what resilience is, why it is so important and how to help promote it in less than 4 minutes.  Click here to watch the video and consider how you can share this clip with your families, staff, and friends.

New Research Study Finds FLIP IT ^® to be an Effective Parent Training Program – The Center for School-Based Mental Health Programs at Miami University recently published an evaluation of the OH Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services’ state-wide pilot of the FLIP IT strategy.  The independent evaluation concluded that FLIP IT appears to be an effective strategy for parents that: 1) decreased children’s challenging behavior, 2) increased children’s positive behavior, 3) improved parenting behaviors, and 4) decreased parent beliefs that their children are hard to manage.  The researchers also reported that parents were “overwhelmingly satisfied” and “100% of the comments described positive outcomes.”  They recommended that the state continue to sustain and support the use of FLIP-IT concluding that it, “offer(s) parents effective parenting skills that can improve the lives of their children and family members.”  Click to learn about FLIP IT, read an Executive Summary, or the Full Report.