Parent-Family-Community Connections

July 2022 Edition

Parent Tips: Help Your Child Have a Good School Year

As a parent, there are many things you can do at home to help your child have a good school year. These include making sure your child gets enough sleep, getting him to school on time, and reading at home every day.

Here are ten important ways to get started!

Parents and Families Newsletter

Each month, the Texas Education Agency publishes a newsletter for parents and families. Here is the newly released July edition of the Parents and Families Newsletter, as well as the June issue.

July Newsletter

June Newsletter

If you give a child a cell phone . . .

Keeping Your Children Safe Online: Tools and Tips for Parents

When is the right time to give your child a cell phone?

Who are they interacting with on their phones or other devices?

What are some of the dangers we need to be aware of and talk about with our children and teenagers?


View a short video clip below (in English or Spanish) that addresses these topics.


The video clip features the PadresPresentes program from learntoprotectkids.com, that teaches educators and parents about the dangers of social media and how to talk to kids about online safety.

Additional Online Safety Resources

Parent Involvement and Response to Uvalde

Resources in response to the Robb Elementary School shooting


In response to the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde Texas, the National Child Traumatic Stress Network has developed resources to help children, families, educators, and communities navigate what they are seeing and hearing, acknowledge their feelings, and find ways to cope together.

These resources include:

· Talking to Children About the Shooting

· Helping Youth After a Community Trauma: Tips for Educators

· En Español

· Talking to Children: When Scary Things Happen

· En Español

· Talking to Teens About Violence

· En Español

· Tips for Talking to Students About Violence

· Coping After Mass Violence: For Adults

· Coping After Mass Violence: For Teens

· En Español

· Helping School-Aged Children with Traumatic Grief: Tips for Caregivers

· En Español

· Helping Teens with Traumatic Grief: Tips for Caregivers

· En Español

· Helping Young Children with Traumatic Grief

· En Español

· Guiding Adults in Talking to Children About Death and Attending Services

· After a Crisis: Helping Young Children Heal

· Age-Related Reactions to a Traumatic Event

· Once I Was Very Scared (book for young children)

· After the Injury (for families with injured children)

Summer Reading Resources

Summer is a great time to encourage your children to read.

Click on the free Read Aloud QR Code cards below, in English and in Spanish!

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findhelp.org

Findhelp.org helps you find free and reduced cost social service programs in your community. When you type in your ZIP code, or the ZIP code of someone you're helping, you will see programs that serve that community.

Region 7 Bilingual Family Engagement


Joseph Pino

Emergent Bilingual Family Empowerment Specialist

Email: jpino@esc7.net
Website: https://www.esc7.net/page/TitleIII.home
Phone: (903) 988-6793