EPA Grants: Lead in Drinking Water in Child Care Facilities and Schools – apply by Tue Apr 19 Written by Dani Birzer WASHINGTON — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced $20 million in available grant funding to assist communities and schools with removing sources of lead in drinking water. This grant funding, and additional funding…
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Help them Grow or Watch them Go: Strategies for Supporting Staff Wellness – Join us Thu Mar 17 Research on successful out-of-school time programming identifies that positive impacts for youth and families are directly related to highly skilled and trained, youth serving professionals. In this moment, it is urgent for programs and the field to…
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NJSACC Celebrates Greek-American Heritage Month. You can too. NJSACC celebrates the culture, accomplishments and experiences of Greek people during Greek-American Heritage Month in March. Greek-American Heritage Month Resources Ancient Greek Toys: All You Need To Know Kids Cooking Activities: Study Greek Cooking Lesson Plan: It Came From Greek Mythology (6th-12th grades) Teacher Planet’s Mythology: Lessons,…
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Conserve Wildlife Foundation of NJ Presents: Critter Chaos March Madness has gone to the birds! (and fish! and mammals! and reptiles! and…) This year, CWF will be hosting a fun alternative (or compliment) to the NCAA basketball tournament, March Madness! CWF staff got together and selected 40 species that spend some portion of their lives…
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Join us for Hunger Free New Jersey’s Policy and Program Information Session – Wed Mar 2 Greetings Hunger Free New Jersey partners! On Wednesday, March 2, 2022 from 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, Hunger Free New Jersey is hosting a virtual information session on Policies, Programs, and Legislation in 2022! Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89481719233 Meeting…
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Check out the Child Care Health Consultants’ March 2022 Training Calendar (English and Spanish) Please feel free to share the attached March 2022 Training Calendar from the Child Care Health Consultants. Register for our scheduled trainings by visiting www.NJCCIS.com. Comparta nuestro folleto de entrenamientos en español con cualquier persona que pueda estar interesada. Regístrese para nuestras entrenamientos visitando www.NJCCIS.com.…
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DCM Associates is pleased to announce the search for a Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for its client, NJSACC, New Jersey’s After School Network NJSACC, located in Westfield, New Jersey, is recruiting a dynamic afterschool education professional to become its next CEO. Founded 40 years ago as a grassroots coalition of stakeholders in education, government, industry,…
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Staffing Summit Strategy Sharing Recruitment, Hiring and Retention option 1 Need Staff? Together We Can Tackle Today’s Staffing Challenges The struggle to hire staff for 2021 (and have them show up and stay) was painfully felt in camps across the board. We worked together to navigate pandemic challenges; we can do the same for the…
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New Peer Group for OST Leaders – Join us on Tue Mar 1 For networking, updates, information sharing and more, join our new Peer Group for OST leaders by OST leaders starting March 1st! Hosted for NJSACC by Lauren Baretin with Quality Coach Arlyn Jimenez as staff liaison Come from 10 -11am to network and share! registration link…
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The Million Girls Moonshot: February Quality Trainings and Transformative Practices The Moonshot will be active in out-of-school programs in all 50 states, leveraging the Mott-funded 50 State Afterschool Network, which has access to more than 10 million youth and 100,000 afterschool programs across the country. Over the course of the new year NJSACC’s STEM Specialist…
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