COVID-19 Response & Recovery Plan Our goal is to ensure that young children have quality, nurturing, and safe child care and education as physical distancing and other guidelines continue, to slow the spread of COVID-19. The next Coalition Call is Wednesday, …
August 28 | Weekly Digest: COVID-19 Response & Recovery for Child Care & Wellbeing
COVID-19 Response & Recovery Plan Our goal is to ensure that young children have quality, nurturing, and safe child care and education as physical distancing and other guidelines continue, to slow the spread of COVID-19. The next Coalition Call is Wednesday, …
Facebook Live: Navigating Distance Learning with Your Children
Parents are invited to join Dr. Susan Swick, the physician in chief of Ohana, a center for child and adolescent behavioral health at the Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula, for a Facebook Live Q&A on Tuesday, August 25 from 4:30 – 5:30pm. Dr. …
Healthy & Safe
Supporting Our Local Child Care & Education Providers Bright Beginnings and the COVID-19 Child Care & Wellbeing Response & Recovery Coalition helped secure and distribute supplies, including personal protection equipment, to help sanitize child care settings and keep caregivers, educators, and children …
National Breastfeeding Month
Raising Awareness and Empowering Mothers August is National Breastfeeding Month — a time to recognize the important role that breastfeeding can play in both a child and a mother’s lifelong health. This week (August 16 – 24) is Spotlight on Infant and Young Child …
School in the Time of COVID and Wildfires
This year, the first days of school look like no other — online for all and again disrupted for some forced to evacuate due to the wildfires throughout the County. Yet, whether a child is entering preschool or starting their …
August 21 | Weekly Digest: COVID-19 Response & Recovery for Child Care & Wellbeing
COVID-19 Response & Recovery Plan Our goal is to ensure that young children have quality, nurturing, and safe child care and education as physical distancing and other guidelines continue, to slow the spread of COVID-19. The next Coalition Call is Wednesday, …
August 14 | Weekly Digest: COVID-19 Response & Recovery for Child Care & Wellbeing
COVID-19 Response & Recovery Plan Our goal is to ensure that young children have quality, nurturing, and safe child care and education as physical distancing and other guidelines continue, to slow the spread of COVID-19. The next Coalition Call is Wednesday, …
Monterey OKs $106 million Children’s Mental Health Facility
A planned mental health treatment center for children and adolescents in Monterey was green-lighted on Tuesday, August 4, by elected officials. The 55,000-square-foot, 16-bed residential and outpatient Ohana Center will be built just off Lower Ragsdale in the Ryan Ranch …
Food Bank for Monterey County Sees Number Served Quadruple
Monterey County has one of the largest childhood hunger problems in the state, with one in four children affected by food scarcity, and the issue has been exacerbated by school closures due to COVID-19. A recent article from the Monterey …