Creating a Safer Community for Kids

This 90-minute webinar is intended for service providers that work directly with children and youth. In this webinar you will be provided with the tools to effectively navigate and support children and youth through abuse and neglect.

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https://education.cackelowna.com/courses/creating-a-safer-community-for-kids

Trauma-Informed Parenting Series – episode 4 – How do I help my child feel seen, protected and connected with Renae Regehr (Complex Trauma Institute):  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZfb8gODyqQ

Trauma-Focused Parenting

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Children develop a secure attachment with us by feeling seen, safe and soothed.

As an adult it is often much easier to accept our child’s experience when it aligns with our own inner experience. It makes sense to us why they feel sad, angry, or frustrated about something. 

This is more difficult to do when it contrasts our own.

For kids who have a history of complex trauma they often have much bigger reactions and emotional responses, which can be confusing and exhausting. Their response doesn’t always match the situation or the incident in our eyes.

One of the more effective ways we can teach our kids to move through their emotional experience and to make sense of them is by explicitly accepting their inner experience.

Renae breaks all this down and more in this week's episode and provides a sample script of what you CAN say.

Community Input Needed

SD#8 – Kootenay Lake has begun a round of Community Engagement to obtain input from all stakeholder groups about the upcoming 5 year Strategic Plan. There will be a virtual session taking place the evening of February 13. All sessions are also in school website calendars and on our online engagement site. Let’s make sure the South Nelson input is heard!

South Nelson in the News

February 7, 2023

Schools Receive Funds for Food from Nelson Firefighters

Four elementary schools in School District No. 8 (Kootenay Lake) have received a combined $1300 toward food for students and families thanks to fundraising efforts by the Nelson Professional Firefighters Association Local 1343.

In December 2022, Nelson firefighters held a fundraiser to raise money for Muscular Dystrophy Canada and for children and families at local schools who need assistance with food and meals. Firefighters raised a total of $1300 for food equity, providing $325 each to Hume Elementary, South Nelson Elementary, Wildflower Nelson and Rosemont Elementary in the Nelson Family of Schools.

“The Nelson Professional Firefighters like to help different groups within the City of Nelson. With my kids now in kindergarten, I had heard stories about the need for money through schools to support families and children who can’t afford food. We brought this need to the attention of our association as a worthy cause to support, and they went for it. We’re just trying to help out where we can,” said Nelson Firefighter Chris Thast, who initiated the fundraiser.

“The cost of living is always going up and there are a lot more families now struggling to pay for food. There’s an ongoing need to support families who can’t pay for hot lunches, for snacks and for groceries. We’re really thankful to the Nelson Professional Firefighters for this donation which will go toward improving food equity in each of our schools,” said South Nelson Elementary Principal Jann Schmidt.

Also present to receive a $325 donation were Hume Elementary Principal Sacha Kalabis, Wildflower School Principal Misty Terpstra and Rosemont Elementary Principal Lindsay Mackay.

The money each school received will help pay for snacks for students during the school day, for programs that provide groceries to families in need and other food equity programs with the goal of seeing children well nourished and ready to learn each day.

Sincerely,