The Idaho Children's Trust Fund/Prevent Child Abuse Idaho provides funding, trains and provides technical assistance to community based programs
working to strengthen families in order to prevent child abuse and neglect in Idaho.
Being a parent is one tough job
Full of rewards, beautiful moments, laughs, and love. But the reality of raising children today is that parents become overwhelmed, exhausted, and stressed.
OneToughJob.org is a 2010 National Parenting Publication Award (NAPPA) winner, a program sponsored by Dominion Parenting Media, Inc. and promoted in association with parenting publishers across the United States
Check out this award winning site from the Massachusetts Children's Trust Fund with tips and ideas about parenting and families.
The Board and staff of the Idaho Children's Trust Fund at our summer meeting in Hagerman, Idaho.
While there, besides appreciating the beautiful environs of Billingsley Creek Lodge, the board heard about work going on in the Magic Valley that is building strong families and preventing child abuse and neglect. We heard about fabulous work going on between Jerome High School and Head Start, how the Stewards of Children program is working in Twin Falls to prevent child sexual abuse and how South Central Head Start is collaborating with more and more partners and building awareness that child abuse can be prevented throughout the Magic Valley.
Supporting the ICTF
Donating to Children’s Trust Fund: The Easiest and Most Effective Donation You Will Make All Year.
You can support the work of the Idaho Children's Trust Fund by donating on your Idaho State Income Tax form, or mailing a check to P.O. Box 2015, Boise, ID 83701,
you can also donate to the Idaho Children's
Trust Fund
on-line click on the button below!.
Your donation is tax deductible. Thank you.
The Idaho Children's Trust Fund is the
state affiliate of Prevent Child Abuse
America
Contact us using Free Text Relay
What is Text Relay?
Text Relay is a federally funded and regulated service designed to make it easy for people with hearing loss or speech disabilities to place phone calls.
Parent Talk:
With child development specialist, Carolyn Kiefer, MS
August,
2010
Read Me A Story –and more!
The summer seems to be speeding towards fall! The mornings are cooler, it gets dark a little earlier, the ads are all about “back to school”. Perhaps its time to think about your family’s routines. If you don’t already have a regular time to read to your children (or summer changed a few things) this could be a good time to start or return to “reading time”.
Dorothy S. Strickland, Ph.D., Distinguished Research Fellow National Institute for Early Education Research at Rutgers, has written extensively about literacy (reading and understanding words) and school achievement. “Early literacy plays a key role in enabling the kind of early learning experiences that research shows are linked with academic achievement, reduced grade retention, higher graduation rates, and enhanced productivity in adult life.” She continues with the following key points:
“Literacy learning starts early and persists throughout life.
From the earliest years, everything that adults do to support children’s language and
literacy really counts.”
“Oral language and literacy develop concurrently.
What children learn from listening and talking contributes to their ability to read and
write and vice versa.”
“Children’s experiences with the world and with print greatly influence their ability to comprehend what they read.
True reading involves understanding. What children bring to a text, whether oral or
written, influences the understandings they take away. There are two kinds of experiences that are highly influential to literacy development: background knowledge about the world and background knowledge about print and books.”
(http://nieer.org/resources/newsletter)
Prevent Child Abuse Idaho is on Facebook