The Power of Play - Healthi Kids Playful Learning Summit
Staff from Children’s Institute and ROC the Future Alliance joined other community vendor organizations and nearly 200 attendees at the inaugural Healthi Kids Playful Learning Summit on Monday, August 21, 2023.
Continue readingCelebrating at the YCWC Juneteenth Freedom Resource Festival
The Young Child Wellness Council (YCWC) had a beautiful day for their community JUNETEENTH FREEDOM – Resource Festival held on Saturday, June 24, 2023.
Continue readingStudents want you to know you make a difference!
It’s a time of year that “burnout” creeps or leaps into almost every conversation that occurs among those of us in the education field... a couple of wishes as you head into summer break ...
Continue readingCelebrating the Work of Our Youth Leadership Council
Whole Child Connection’s Youth Leadership Council (YLC) and graduate students at The Warner School of Education came together to work on the teacher pipeline project.
Continue readingNewly Published Article: Students in Primary Project had higher attendance rates
Our recently published article in the Journal of Applied School Psychology highlights results that show students enrolled in Primary Project had higher rates of attendance compared to their peers.
Continue readingWelcome to New Board Members
Children’s Institute welcomes two new Board Members to a three-year term. Each volunteer member brings a unique set of expertise, experience, and perspectives that will enhance the Board's commitment to our mission: Joining together to raise every child’s complete wellbeing.
Continue readingGold Award for Team Excellence! GRQC 2022 Performance Excellence Awards
Children’s Institute’s Get Ready to GROW team was honored with a Gold Award for Team Excellence – Get Ready to GROW Referrals: Let’s “Close the Loop!”
Continue readingQSNY Update and Welcome to New CI Employee Krista Nicolaisen
QUALITYstarsNY (QSNY) is a large project that has been on hold during COVID. It is New York’s Quality Rating and Improvement System (QRIS) for early childhood programs, providing support and resources to improve and sustain high quality across New York State: New York’s Quality Rating & Improvement System - QUALITYstarsNY.
Continue readingLeading with Love
Last weekend, I gathered with lay faith members of communities across Rochester with whom I have gathered monthly for a year. It was our final class. We were celebrating our accomplishments together as a community that cares about mental health, in this intentional learning community of Renewing of the Mind’s (RoM).
Continue readingResearch Presented at 2022 ISDC
Children’s Institute's former student intern, Victoire Alleluia Shenge, now a graduate student at the University of Maryland, and Executive Director, Ann Marie White, virtually presented their community-based participatory research project at the 2022 International Systems Dynamic Conference (ISDC) held in Frankfurt, Germany: "Interdependencies of Faith and Mental Health among Black Millennials in a US City."
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