On the agenda:

• Volunteers for Learning Center Libraries: Leah Picker and Anne Schwan, Student Chapter of the American Library Association (SCALA), University of Pittsburgh
  
• Bridges Group & Early Childhood Updates: Joan Eichner, Office of Child Development, University of Pittsburgh
  
• CAPE Program Update: Laura Bailey, HCEF
  
• Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh:
  Programs and opportunities for Children and Teens -- Georgene DeFilippo (Youth Services Coordinator), LeeAnn Anna (Teen Services Coordinator);
  Using Readers Theater at your centers -- Emma Connolly (BLAST School Outreach)

• Group Discussion: What's working in agency-based children and teen programming

  
  
  Pitt Library Volunteers: The student chapter of the American Library Association at Pitt is teaming up with HCEF to provide library volunteers to help with various tasks in the Learning Centers: color-coding books by reading level, keeping the shelves organized, and creating book displays. Volunteers may also be available to read to children. Let Laura know if you wish to take advantage of this opportunity.
  
  Also let Laura know if you'd like to arrange for International Languages & Arts Workshops in January and February 2012.
  
  

  (See the Celebrations page for photos from the June and August Mini-Grant events at the Spaghetti Warehouse.)

  
  

  Mini-Grants Promising Practices Catalog

   

  Want to know about The Clairton Collaborative? Click here
  
  Links to Pittsburgh Public Schools websites of interest:
  
  Home page    Schools
  Community Resource Guide    Parents
  Curriculum and Instruction    Online Parent Portal

  See the National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth's (NAEHCY) Frequently Asked Questions on the Education Rights of Children and Youth in Homeless Situations – Updated November 2009 (a .pdf document that can be downloaded and/or printed). See also
  Schools and Communities Uniting to House Unaccompanied Youth
  
  Read on line or download the National Center for Children in Poverty's December 2009 paper, Ten Important Questions About Child Poverty and Family Economic Hardship

  Link to National Center for Homeless Education
  Posters of parents' and student's rights and school districts' obligations
  Parent's poster    Student's poster
  Posters may be reproduced. Also available in Spanish.

  Direct links to a sample of the mapping of neighborhood service assets
  and of the services these organizations can provide

  Access   Grolier On-line's After School Fun and Learning Center
  user name: hcef1 – password: grolier
  and
  Access Scholastic's BookFlix
  pairing classic storybooks with related nonfiction – grades Pre-K - 3
  user name: hcef – password: bookflix

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