All About the Vook Club plus ‘This Summer I Will...’

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Please join the H&V O.U.R. Children’s Safety Project for building a community of support and safety. First-time attendees are always welcome!

We’ll close our O.U.R. Project Year with a discussion about the Vook Club and how organizations are using it. If that term is new to you, it’s a good time to join! We’ll take a look at what we will do as parents and as parent leaders for our organizations this summer in regard to children’s safety.

Please register for this meeting so we can track participants and ensure accessibility needs.

Agenda and Assignments

If your organization is using books from the Vook Club, (check out the list at the link below), come prepared to share what you are doing. We’ll plan to set some goals for summer until we meet again on October 10, 2023 after the H&V Leadership Conference in Michigan.

Objectives

1. Get familiar with the Vook Club curated list of books and videos: Vook Club Book and Video List
2. Learn from other Chapters and Family-based organizations how they are sharing the Vook Club materials.
3. Get inspired by others about your to-do list until we meet again in October 2023.

Primary Audience 

Chapter and program leaders, family-based support organizations, EHDI system stakeholders, educators, and individual family members.

Facilitator

Chresta Brinkman, The O.U.R. Project Core Team, H&V Headquarters

What is O.U.R. Children Safety Project - (Observe, Understand, and Respond)?

Hands & Voices has created a Community of Learners, comprised of parents, family members and professionals, to explore and develop activities to increase the safety and success of children who are deaf or hard of hearing. This welcoming and inclusive community of learners values participation from Hands & Voices leadership including GBYS and ASTra program staff along with the larger community. Through discussion and critical reflection, the group focuses on issues to increase awareness and understanding surrounding prevention of child maltreatment for deaf, hard of hearing and deaf/hh plus children. Together, members of O.U.R. identify and determine action steps that support others in their own communities that serve to observe and respond to instances of abuse, neglect and bullying, as well as cohesively work to enhance policies for prevention within the systems of care serving D/HH children and families. The O.U.R Children Safety Project incorporates the foundation and mission of Hands & Voices, and as such guides the message of prevention throughout Hands & Voices state and provincial Chapters in order to carry out the work that enables deaf, hard of hearing and deaf plus children to reach their highest potential.

Please join us and feel free to share this information with others!

View selected past sessions on the website: https://www.handsandvoices.org/resources/OUR/index.htm

For more information, contact us at: janet@handsandvoices.org

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