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Item Families Visit U of M Campus(University of Minnesota Extension, Center for Family Development, 2015) Olson, KathleenPartnering for School Success (PSS) is based on a model which recognizes that multiple factors in the family and community impact student success in school. PSS CYFAR* (Children, Youth and Families at Risk) is a partnership of University of Minnesota Extension, Triton (Dodge Center), and Faribault Middle Schools focusing on two of the major factors related to academic achievement for Latino families – family and school environments. CYFAR promotes Minnesota youth to have opportunities to imagine and achieve higher education goals. Funded by the Sustainable Communities Project (SCP), Parents and guardians are also engaged with their children in educational settings to learn about obtaining education goals. This report summarizes the field trip that Latino families took to the University of Minnesota as part of the program.Item Field Trip 2016 – Latino Families visit U of MN(University of Minnesota Extension, Center for Family Development, 2016-04) Villarraga, Maria C.; Olson, KathleenPartnering for School Success (PSS) is based on a model which recognizes that multiple factors in the family and community impact student success in school. PSS CYFAR* (Children, Youth and Families at Risk) is a partnership of University of Minnesota Extension, Triton (Dodge Center), and Faribault Middle Schools focusing on two of the major factors related to academic achievement for Latino families – family and school environments. CYFAR promotes Minnesota youth to have opportunities to imagine and achieve higher education goals. Funded by the Sustainable Communities Project (SCP), Parents and guardians are also engaged with their children in educational settings to learn about obtaining education goals. This report summarizes the field trip that participating Latino families took to the University of Minnesota, their experience and their perception about the activities performed.Item Leading with Participation and Inclusion: End of Workshop Evaluation(University of Minnesota Extension, Center for Family Development, 2015) Olson, KathleenPartnering for School Success (PSS) is based on a model which recognizes that multiple factors in the family and community impact student success in school. PSS CYFAR* (Children, Youth and Families at Risk) is a partnership of University of Minnesota Extension, Triton (Dodge Center), and Faribault Middle Schools focusing on two of the major factors related to academic achievement for Latino families – family and school environments. This report summarizes the evaluation of the workshop, “Liderando con Participación e Inclusión” (Leading with Participation and Inclusion).Item The Minnesota Children, Youth and Families At Risk Project: Impact Report 2009(University of Minnesota Extension, 2009) Skuza, Jennifer; Tzenis, Joanna; Sheldon, TimothyThe Minnesota CYFAR Sustainable Communities Project is focused on strengthening the ability of middle school aged youth to set and achieve short and long-term educational goals by using an innovative and organic afterschool program model that is highly experiential. The aim of the program is to help youth own their learning by igniting their interest in education and to work with parents and guardians to support them in their role as their child's first educator. This impact report describes the program model and the educational resources we used to develop it. It also highlights some of the promising early results, along with the resources developed during the project’s first year. There are also find descriptions of the communities, youth, and parents this project serves.Item The Minnesota Children, Youth, and Familes at Risk Project: Impact Report 2010(Regents of the University of Minnesota, 2010) Skuza, Jennifer; Sheldon, Timothy; Sheehan, Trish; Tzenis, JoannaThe Minnesota CYFAR Sustainable Communities Project is focused on strengthening the ability of middle school aged youth to set and achieve short and long-term educational goals by using an innovative and organic afterschool program model that is highly experiential. The aim of the program is to help youth own their learning by igniting their interest in education to to work with parents and guardians to support them in their role as their child's first educator. This reports features the impact from the second year of the project whereby sixty-nine youth and seventy-one parents and guardians participated.Item The Minnesota Children, Youth, and Families at Risk Project: Impact Report 2011(University of Minnesota Extension, 2011) Skuza, Jennifer; Tzenis, Joanna; Sheldon, Timothy; Pierson Russo, JessicaThe Minnesota CYFAR Sustainable Communities Project is focused on strengthening the ability of middle school aged youth to set and achieve short and long-term educational goals by using an innovative and organic afterschool program model that is highly experiential. The aim of the program is to help youth own their learning by igniting their interest in education to to work with parents and guardians to support them in their role as their child's first educator. This reports presents the evaluation results and demonstrates the impact that the Minnesota CYFAR Sustainable Communities Project has had on youth participants during its third year.Item My baby or child has bronchiolitis: an infection of the lungs(2008-04-07) Krueger, JohannahBronchiolitis is a very common childhood infection of part of the lungs. A virus called respiratory syncytial virus, “RSV,” causes it. There are common ways to diagnose bronchiolitis and treat the symptoms. However, there is no medicine that gets rid of the virus causing it. The handout describes how bronchiolitis is diagnosed and treated, ways to decreased spreading the infection, and possible complications. Research studies show that using antibiotics does not decrease length of illness for young children <2 years old with bronchiolitis. Research has shown there is a low risk of a child with bronchiolitis having an additional serious bacterial infection. This is usually true even even if the child has a fever or chest x-ray showing pneumonia. The harm of giving a child an antibiotic are side effects like diarrhea, possible allergy, and risk of making bacteria more resistant to antibiotics. When there is no benefit to giving antibiotics, it is not worth risking the possible harms. Some children will get very sick from bronchiolitis and might need to be in the hospital for certain treatments. Some children with certain medical conditions get medicine to prevent bronchiolitis. Once in awhile children with bronchiolitis might also have an ear infection or urinary tract infection. Antibiotics do help these infections. More children who have bronchiolitis when young will get asthma than children who do not have the infection, but no one knows why. The best way to prevent spreading the infection is hand-washing. Babies who are breast-fed and babies who are not around cigarette smoke have a lower chance of getting bronchiolitis.Item Open Doors with Higher Education Program Evaluation, 2015-2016(University of Minnesota Extension, Center for Family Development, 2016) Olson, KathleenPartnering for School Success (PSS) is a family education program for immigrant Latino parents or care-givers of children in high school. The Children, Youth and Families at Risk (CYFAR) program is a partnership between University of Minnesota Extension (Extension), Triton School (in Dodge Center, DGC), and Faribault Schools FRB. This program focuses on two of the major factors related to academic achievement for Latino students – family and school environments. CYFAR PSS includes three interrelated components of 1) Family strengthening education, 2) Family school partnership, and 3) Latino school navigators who act as a liaison between parents and schools. As part of the family strengthening education, Extension has implemented the Open Doors with Higher Education program (Abriendo puertas con educación superior in Spanish), referred to as Open Doors in this report, during winter 2015 and spring 2016. This evaluation report summarizes the Open Doors trainings provided to the Latino families enrolled in the program.Item Parent School Partnership, 2013-2014(University of Minnesota Extension, Center for Family Development, 2014) Olson, Kathleen A.An important goal Partnering for School Success CYFAR project is promoting family-school relationships to better support Latino student school success. Latino parents and school personnel came together in the first year of the project in each school (Faribault and Triton middle schools) to learn about each other and plan action steps to improve parent-school partnerships. Over the school year, the partnerships then were facilitated by the respective school liaisons to advance the goals they set. This report describes the evaluation results of the parent-school partnerships over two years (2013-14) of the project.Item Parenting Education Component for Year 1 and 2, 2013-2014(University of Minnesota Extension, Center for Family Development, 2014) Olson, Kathleen A.Partnering for School Success (PSS) is based on a model which recognizes that multiple factors in the family and community impact student success in school. PSS CYFAR* (Children, Youth and Families at Risk) is a partnership of University of Minnesota Extension, Triton (Dodge Center), and Faribault Middle Schools focusing on two of the major factors related to academic achievement for Latino families – family and school environments. CYFAR PSS includes three integrated components of 1) Family-School Partnerships (FSP), 2) School Navigators and 3) Family Strengthening Education. This report focuses on the evaluation of the parent education, “Educación: Nuestra mejor herencia” (Education: Our Best Legacy), that took place during years 1 and 2.Item Parenting Education Component for Year 1, 2013(University of Minnesota Extension, Center for Family Development, 2013)Partnering for School Success (PSS) is based on a model which recognizes that multiple factors in the family and community impact student success in school. PSS CYFAR* (Children, Youth and Families at Risk) is a partnership of University of Minnesota Extension, Triton (Dodge Center), and Faribault Middle Schools focusing on two of the major factors related to academic achievement for Latino families – family and school environments. CYFAR PSS includes three integrated components of 1) Family-School Partnerships (FSP), 2) School Navigators and 3) Family Strengthening Education. This report focuses on the evaluation of the parent education, “Educación: Nuestra mejor herencia” (Education: Our Best Legacy), that took place during years 1.Item Parents and stress: Understanding experiences, context, and responses(St. Paul, MN: University of Minnesota Extension, Children, Youth and Family Consortium, 2015-05) Cronin, Sarah; Becher, Emily; Christians, Kris Schmiesing; Debb, StephanieHow do parents experience stress? How does the social environment, economic hardship, and the very nature of parenting contribute to a parent's stress and coping? Learn how parents and their families are influenced - physically, cognitively, and emotionally - by their experiences with stress. Find coping strategies and ways to help families as they navigate stressors in their environment. "In our context as urban public educators (who remain largely European-American), we are tasked with reducing bias in our practice in order to reduce the wide gaps in achievement between white students and students of color. Parental stress research acknowledges that the wide variety in parent appraisal of a child’s behavior is largely connected to personality differences and/or family and social norms. Acknowledgment that those family and social norms are culturally mediated rather than universal could lead to further research that attempts to avoid bias" (eReview author K. Christians).Item Parents Forever™ Annual Report, 2014(University of Minnesota Extension, Center for Family Development, 2015) Alvarez de Davila, Silvia; Hagen-Jokela, Becky; Kunkel, Kelly; McCann, Ellie M; Powell, Sharon; Center for Family Development, Applied Research and EvaluationThe year 2014 was one of significant developments for Parents Forever™, an 8-hour course offered in person and online to divorced and otherwise separated parents. Created more than 20 years ago by the Extension Center for Family Development, the course gives participants skills and information to support their efforts to successfully raise their children while living apart. Highlights of 2014 for Parents Forever™ include: —Updates to the curriculum to reflect the latest research and best practices in parent education. —Restructuring of the in-person program to ensure its quality and providers’ fidelity to core elements. —Growing success of the online course, which reached its highest level of enrollment in 2014 and showed positive outcomes for participants in several areas.Item Partnering for School Success – Children, Youth and Families at Risk Evaluation for Year 3, 2015(University of Minnesota Extension, Center for Family Development, 2015) Olson, Kathleen A.CYFAR PSS is a partnership of University of Minnesota Extension, Triton (Dodge Center), and Faribault Middle Schools focusing on two of the major factors related to academic achievement for Latino families – family and school environments. CYFAR PSS includes three integrated components of 1) Family Strengthening Education, 2) Family-School Partnerships (FSP) and 3) the use of Latino School Navigators who act as a liaison between parents, school and resources in the community. This report highlights evaluation processes and results for the three integrated components of CYFAR PSS that took place in the third year (2015) of the grant.Item Partnering for School Success – Children, Youth and Families at Risk Evaluation for Year 4, 2016(University of Minnesota Extension, Center for Family Development, 2016) Olson, Kathleen A.; Hurtado, G. Ali; Becher, Emily; Blue, Misty; Kim, Hyunjun; Villarraga, MariaCYFAR (Children, Youth and Families at Risk) PSS (Partnering for School Success) is a partnership of University of Minnesota Extension, Triton School (Dodge Center), and Faribault Middle Schools focusing on two of the major factors related to academic achievement for Latino families – family and school environments. CYFAR PSS includes three integrated components including: 1) Family Strengthening Education, 2) Family-School Partnerships (FSP) and 3) the use of Latino School Navigators who act as a liaison between parents, school and resources in the community. This report highlights evaluation processes and results for the three integrated components of CYFAR PSS during year 4 (2016).Item Partnering for School Success – Children, Youth and Families at Risk Faribault and Triton Middle Schools Grant 2012-2017(University of Minnesota Extension, Center for Family Development, 2016) Olson, KathleenPartnering for School Success (PSS) is based on a model that recognizes that student success in school is impacted by multiple factors in the family and community. PSS CYFAR (Children, Youth and Families at Risk) is a partnership of University of Minnesota Extension, Triton (Dodge Center) and Faribault Middle Schools focusing on two of the major factors related to academic achievement for Latino students – family and school environments – and what each can do to improve school success. This fact sheet summarizes the three inter-related components of this program and the goals for improved educational outcomes.Item Partnering for School Success – Children, Youth and Families at Risk Subsidio 2012-2017 a las escuelas medias (en inglés Middle Schools) de Triton y Faribault(University of Minnesota Extension, Center for Family Development, 2016) Olson, KathleenPartnering for School Success (PSS) is based on a model that recognizes that student success in school is impacted by multiple factors in the family and community. PSS CYFAR (Children, Youth and Families at Risk) is a partnership of University of Minnesota Extension, Triton (Dodge Center) and Faribault Middle Schools focusing on two of the major factors related to academic achievement for Latino students – family and school environments – and what each can do to improve school success. This fact sheet summarizes the three inter-related components of this program and the goals for improved educational outcomes. It is the Spanish version of the fact sheet; an English version is also available.Item Pinning for Parent Education(University of Minnesota Extension, 2014-10) Barnes, Jessica; Jastram, Hannah; Langworthy, Sara; Routh, BriannaAs more parents are using the Internet to answer their questions, Extension needs to provide practical, research-based resources in an accessible format online. Pinterest is a social content discovery and curation website that Extension Educators can use to provide continued education and make reputable resources more discoverable for parents. Based on Knowles adult learning theory and user demographics, University of Minnesota Extension Center for Family Development (ECFD) piloted a Pinterest account in August 2013. Based on the pilot, we have provided recommendations for other Extension Educators to develop and maintain a Pinterest page for educational purposes.Item U Connect Kentucky – Summary of Years 1 and 2, 2015-2016(University of Minnesota Extension, Center for Family Development, 2016) Brar, Pooja; Dworkin, JodiU Connect uses a three state model that addresses the critical concerns of middle school aged children in historically vulnerable and marginalized populations. It is a collaboration between three institutions: University of Minnesota, Kentucky State University, andTennessee State University. U Connect is a comprehensive program based on the Check & Connect framework developed at the University of Minnesota’s Institute on Community Integration with program enhancements from STEM education, nutrition education, and parent engagement. Primary outcomes from U Connect include: 1) Promotion of physical and psychological well-being. Creation of opportunities for youth, families, and community center staff to develop supportive relationships, 2) Demonstration and modeling of positive social norms, and 3) Creation of a safe place of inclusion that supports empowerment and skill building. Young people who participate will improve their pro-social behaviors at school, including attendance, personal behavior, academic performance, and engagement in school and within the after school program. Long term, this will provide youth with what they need to graduate high school, and graduate with sufficient skills for postsecondary education and/or employment. Also, parents will cultivate a home environment conductive for young people’s academic success. This is a summary report from the program's implementation in Kentucky during the first two years of the grant, 2015-2016.Item U Connect Kentucky – Year 3 Evaluation Report, Fall 2016-Spring 2017(University of Minnesota Extension, Center for Family Development, 2017) LeBouef, Samantha; Dworkin, Jodi; Brar, Pooja; Yefanova, DianaU Connect uses a three state model that addresses the critical concerns of middle school aged children in historically vulnerable and marginalized populations. It is a collaboration between three institutions: University of Minnesota, Kentucky State University, andTennessee State University. U Connect is a comprehensive program based on the Check & Connect framework developed at the University of Minnesota’s Institute on Community Integration with program enhancements from STEM education, nutrition education, and parent engagement. Primary outcomes from U Connect include: 1) Promotion of physical and psychological well-being. Creation of opportunities for youth, families, and community center staff to develop supportive relationships, 2) Demonstration and modeling of positive social norms, and 3) Creation of a safe place of inclusion that supports empowerment and skill building. Young people who participate will improve their pro-social behaviors at school, including attendance, personal behavior, academic performance, and engagement in school and within the after school program. Long term, this will provide youth with what they need to graduate high school, and graduate with sufficient skills for postsecondary education and/or employment. Also, parents will cultivate a home environment conductive for young people’s academic success. This is a summary report from the program's implementation in Kentucky during the third year of the grant, fall 2016-spring 2017.