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ChildWIN® (Child Wellness Institute) Our focus is to build …

WEBchild wellness Our focus is to build resilience and social-emotional health within children and families. EXPLORE The Child Wellness Institute – known as ChildWIN® — builds resilience and social-emotional health within children and families. Our Healing Hearts® series of workshops provides an overview of the impact of trauma and Adverse …

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Helping Children Bounce Back: Resilience

WEBMaybe that’s what determines who will bounce back and who will not. From the Latin word “resilere,” resilience means “to spring back” or “to recover from misfortune.”. Those children who are more resilient than others tend to be able to survive abuse and other adverse experiences and to tolerate more favorably the everyday

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Are We Overprotecting Our Children

WEBProfessionals conclude that somewhere between 30 and 40 percent of anxiety is genetic, so some children will be more prone to it than others. However, parents play a significant role in how children manage their anxiety. They are not the cause of anxiety in their offspring, but they do accommodate it, making it more intense than it should be.

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Some Ingredients of Resilience

WEBTwo such resilience ingredients come to mind: social connectedness and optimism. One of the things that strengthens children in times of stress is social connectedness, the level of social support they experience. Research tells us that most victims of trauma are able to recover on their own, as long as they sense that they are supported by a

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Keeping Up Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) at Home

WEBTeaching a new behavior. involves a preponderance of positive feedback over negative. Remind. children of the positive, pro-social behavior that is expected of them, even. before it is expected. “Remember to wash your hands before you eat.”. Teach. alternative behavior in order to reduce undesirable behavior.

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Understanding, Navigating and Addressing Social Determinants of …

WEBThe World Health Organization (WHO) defines social determinants of health (SDOH) as “the conditions and environments in which people are born, grow, work, worship, play, live, and age, and the wider set of forces and systems shaping the conditions of daily life.” Despite being non-medical, all of these factors can play a part in a person’s health …

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Social-Emotional Wellness Shop

WEBSocial-Emotional Wellness Shop view product catalog Wellness Walk Kit Kid tested & teacher approved to support self-awareness and self-management! This 57 piece decal features several options for children to jump, balance and breathe their way through the hallway. Developed by a team of therapists & educators (with plenty of kid input along …

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Documentary Film Screenings

WEBDocumentary Film Screenings PCA-NJ owns the viewing rights for several documentary films that shine the light on important issues related to child and family wellness. We offer a 2-3 hour presentation that includes viewing the film and a facilitated discussion about the issue. Paper Tigers learn more Paper Tigers follows a year in the life of […]

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Protecting Children, Helping Parents

WEBThe changes in how children and families conduct themselves during these weeks of quarantine have placed enormous burdens on everyone involved. Children no longer have access to those many systems that they have become accustomed to participating in outside the home: schools, play groups, organized sports and other activities, and …

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A Heartfelt Invitation

WEBI have been asked about this story many times so I will share it as a lesson of not only the work done at the Child Wellness Institute but as an important lesson in humanity. January 2020: He sat there kicking the easel in the back of the room, his body positioned away from the classroom and he was hunched slightly forward-looking at his …

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Training Topics for Professionals

WEBTraining Topics for Professionals Request a training Healing Hearts: Trauma-Informed Practices The Healing Hearts Series of workshops provides an overview of the impact of trauma and Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) on the developing child. Teachers, administrators and staff who work with children will learn how trauma/toxic stress …

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Healing Hearts and Fostering Connections: Mitigating …

WEBInternational Journal of Learning and Development ISSN 2164-4063 2023, Vol. 13, No. 2 ®

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Uncategorized Archives

WEBUncategorized Archives - Page 2 of 2 - ChildWIN® (Child Wellness Institute) donate now

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TTI Pilot Results

WEBBlog Post by Gina Hernandez, MA, LPC, CCTP – Executive Director. Prevent Child Abuse-New Jersey and Child Wellness Institute (ChildWIN®) In 2018 … in a preschool classroom in Camden, an urban New Jersey city, a group of parents sat in child-sized chairs facing each other.

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Helping Children Cope with COVID-19, the Coronavirus

WEBIf social distancing has become the operative term in the light of this virus, and if social isolation is the “new normal” for families for the foreseeable future, how can they answer their children’s questions and help them cope with …

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The Mental Health Care Crisis Continues One Year …

WEBThe outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been stressful and traumatic for many people, particularly our children and adolescents. As we approach the pandemic’s one year anniversary, unfortunately, many of us are continuing to grapple with its distressing effects both physically and emotionally.

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