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National Runaway Prevention Month – November

I wanted to share some resources for you to help support the youth in your community during National Runaway Prevention Month.

The National Runaway Safeline has some great resources, including:

-Free Educational and Outreach Materials:

https://www.1800runaway.org/free-promotional-materials/

-Presentations about the National Runaway Prevention Month for the community, social media posts and more. https://www.1800runaway.org/nrpm/

-Runaway Prevention Curriculum. “a free, evidence-based, interactive, 14 module curriculum intended to educate young people about alternatives to running away as well as to build life skills so that youth can resolve problems without resorting to running away or unsafe behavior.”

https://www.1800runaway.org/runaway-prevention-curriculum-sign-up/

-They also have prevention specialists that will lead a virtual youth group discussion:

https://www.1800runaway.org/providers-educators/kids-call/

Also there is an excellent article on Webjunction: https://www.webjunction.org/news/webjunction/serving-homeless-youth.html This is a great opportunity to network with social service agencies and homeless prevention programs.  

Remember:

1 in 10 young adults (age 18 to 25) and 1 in 30 minors (age 13-17) experienced unaccompanied homelessness in a one-year period. This translates to approximately 3.5 million young adults and 700,000 minors (Morton et al, 2017) 

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Free Storywalk and Home-Learning & Play Resources

Kirsten Cappy, Curious CIty works closely with educators and librarians to develop children’s book engagement tools. Curious CIty has teamed up with Child’s Play to create free storywalk sign files for libraries (and others) to display in their communities. The current free storywalk is Cat’s Colors by Airlie Anderson. Cat’s Colors Picture Book Play Activity Sheet.

Check out all the Home-Learning & Play Resources too!

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Copyright First Responders Course Resources

Federal copyright law says that “Copyright protection under this title is not available for any work of the United States Government.” 17 U.S.C. § 105.  What happens when the copyright falls under the works of State Government? For more state copyright laws see:

http://copyright.lib.harvard.edu/states/

Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States

  17 U.S.C. § 107, available at https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/107·         

Fair Use Infographic: http://copyright.lib.harvard.edu/fair_use/

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Using Media Literacy to Combat Election Disinformation: Librarian Train-the-Trainer Workshop Resources

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If you would like to catch up on past live workshops and panels that Pen America has presented to the public, view the recordings on their project page, Knowing the News.

How to Talk to Friends and Family Who Share Misinformation – PEN America

PEN America’s Guide on COVID-19 and Disinformation

PEN America Reports:

Faking News: Fraudulent News and the Fight for Truth

Truth on the Ballot: Fraudulent News, the Midterm Elections, and Prospects for 2020

Fact-checking resources:

Politifact.com by the Poynter Institute or Washington Post’s Factchecker both fact-check political content.

RevEye Reverse Image Search is a Chrome extension to perform an inverse image search.

FactCheck.org is a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Centerand is non-partisan and monitors for political accuracy.

All Sides offers perspectives on topical news stories from the left, center, and from the right, plus a ‘media bias rating.’

Snopes.com has been around since 1994 and fact-checks internet content.

Duke Reporters’ Lab is a database of both national and global fact-checking resources. 

NewsGuard Coronavirus Misinformation Tracker for COVID-19-specific tracking.

A short news article from Buzzfeed on the various hoaxes and misleading content surrounding the protests.

News Literacy Project’s How News Literate Are You? quiz

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Resources from STEMIE Fest 2020

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STEMIEFest Innovation for inclusion in early education

9/14/20

Two popular early learning robots were Beebots & KIBO.

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AFIRM Autism Focused Intervention Resources & Modules: AFIRM Modules are designed to help you learn the step-by-step process of planning for, using, and monitoring an EBP with learners with ASD from birth to 22 years of age. Supplemental materials and handouts are available for download.

Supporting Individuals with Autism Through Uncertain Times-7 Support Strategies.