Community Resouces
Below are resources available for review and consideration for educators and birth professionals and caregivers.
Child Activities
Opportunities to expand on current research and discover new teaching approaches to deepen relationships and bolster brain architecture..
Support Development Parentese
Engaging with your baby in utero and once the come earth side using “parentese” supports capturing their attention and builds curiosity to learn through observation and movement. Bringing communication into each moment by reducing the speed or tempo of how you speak or through repetition came support building meaningful connections.
Community Marine Centers of the Salish Sea
There are 14 centers that offer FREE interactive learning opportunities for people of all ages. Inside these locations are specially curated activities created by scientists and marine biologists.
Examples include how to tag a shark, how to identify a sex of a crab, how to measure a whale. Each station introduces real equipment used in the field and the patients are stuffed creates to allow children and adults of all abilities to experiment safety. In these centers are touch tanks, artwork, and real specimens to observe and interact with.
Little Spot Emotions
Creating meaningful language of how our body responds to experience and others takes time and a great deal of practice to attune well to ourselves and others. These FREE activity downloads support mindfulness building practices, independent play to build on regulation and also create freedom in art filled expression
Supporting Brain Development
Professional & Experiential Learning
Opportunities to expand on current research and discover new teaching approaches to deepen relationships to land and history by bolstering exposure to curated learning for all.
Flight Museum Experience
The Museum of Flight has extremely knowledgeable docents who have a vast amount of knowledge and experience related to the many artifacts in the museum. This guide book prepares educators for the visit, offering the layout and experiential learning opportunities that can prepare students and build enthusiasm for science, space, and history. Going to each section on different months allows for the most meaningful experiences, as well as provides ample storytelling from veterans, astronauts, pilots, and scientists.
History Museum Experience
The Burke Museum offers a tool to curate an intentional learning experience that supports building the educators knowledge and skills to share knowledge with children and families. The Burke Musuem is filled with natural world and art connections with role playing opportunities throughout that support collaboration and reflective practices related to how we can reduce our carbon footprint in our everyday exchange.
Zoo Experience
This is a prefabricated curriculum created by Zoologist that support experiential learning. They offer packets and exhibits by age group and I was so excited to utilize the coloring sheets with the 9-month-old twins I took to the zoo last week! It was a blast to learn more about the NW passage and also have activities we could do in the zoo meadow while enjoying a picnic. I highly recommend reviewing a special area of the zoo and curate that experience with the outlined materials. The parents who attended with me felt so empowered to have fun facts ready to talk to their babies about and we had laminated animal flash cards the kids could have as tangible handheld items.
Professional & Experiential Learning
Additional Activities
Caregiver Resources
Utilize these resources to support bonding, physical and mental development for you and your growing family.
Regulating Nervous System
Sound Ture is a collection of podcasts, VLOGS and meditations created by some the most influential experts in the field of collective energy and nervous system regulation. This link features simple practices to begin mindfulness protocols. Moany families I serve have this playing in the background or as the wake or prepare for bedtime and couple it with a ceremony of tea, signaling transition for rest to themselves and their entire family
Naming Emotions
Diane Alber is the author of the Little Sport of Emotion book series. Her website offers incredible tools, to build awareness and steps to name emotions and build autonomy and confidence along the way. There are many free tools and skill building ideas on her website and on social media.
Attuning Support
Dr. Daniel Seigel Wheel of Awareness if a great free resource to support clarity, offer skills and tools that support regulating the nervous system and open opportunities to attune to yourself and others. In addition to this resource Dr. Seigel’s book, The Power of Showing up is available at Libby Library service. The book is about how to decode the responses we have in being caregivers, it supports being curious about what is going on internally and how that influences our external world.
Social Emotional Learning
Connect With Music
Bring excitement to movement through all stages through connection with music, rhythm, and fun. Music supports language and literacy by building your baby's brain architecture.
Child Activity:
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Professional adventure
Bring in the Old McDonald had a farm song and add movement, dance, and counting.
Additional Activities
Connect With Nature
Bring excitement by building an intentional nature walk with your child and bring their friends and parents along. These guides are offered for free by the Bellevue parks and community page, leaving planning an educational and informed experience a breeze and FREE.
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Additional Activities
Sailing Basics
Bring excitement by building an intentional sailing basics with your child and bring their friends and parents along. These guides are offered for free by the nodical community pages, leaving planning an educational and informed experience a breeze and FREE.
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Statement of the problem
The U.S. faces a critical shortage of preventive health measures, resources, and high-quality responsive care, contributing to poor maternal and child health outcomes. Romeo, R. (2018). Research indicates that strong maternal and paternal bonding, crucial for child development, is heavily influenced by supportive environments (Ormrod, J. E., 2020). However, gaps in early childhood language and cognitive development, detectable as early as 18 months, are on the rise, with delays averaging six months (McGovern Institute, 2018). Additionally, the U.S. ranks 33rd out of 38 developed nations in maternal mortality, a preventable tragedy that underscores the need for accessible prenatal planning and responsive care (Williams, D.) (Romeo, R., 2018).
While 90% of mothers express a desire to breastfeed, only 16% receive the support needed to continue beyond two months postpartum (Renner, E., 2015). Compounding this with mental health issues exacerbated by toxic stress, especially in low-resource communities, impact maternal and paternal well-being (Renner, E., 2015). Parents urgently need access to high-quality prenatal and postnatal support, meaningful developmental guidance, and resources to foster healthy, resilient children.
