This group met Friday afternoon. Fred Shreve, the principal at McKinley gave us feedback on how the after school program and family support efforts are received at McKinley. He also told us what he felt was the biggest stressor (currently) for families and students. He felt students missing school due to "parents not getting up" and similar stressors were among the problems. We discussed how our previous truancy diversion program helped with this. We explored ways our program could help parents with this issue. We discussed what the school does to try to give incentives for good attendance.
The group also discussed the Girl Scout troop that meets at our office, and a new curriculum of prevention they will be using. We also discussed upcoming National Child Abuse Prevention month in April and some ideas we might do for the month.
We discussed and displayed the "shaken baby doll" that we recently purchased from a mini-grant, and possible plans to have demonstrations and workshop sessions with this.
Bryanna gave some suggestions for ways we could engage some young fathers in support meetings. These will all be pursued and discussed further over the next months.
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