Liaison Program Schedule and Information
All programs are FREE and open to children of ALL ages!! Attending any of these programs is a great way to support and extend the learning your child is already doing at his/her preschool or at home. Please note that parents must remain in the classroom for the duration of each program and are expected to be active participants with their child(ren). Be sure to download the February schedule below!
February is National Library Lovers’ Month! A perfect time to come see all that’s available.
- Every Monday morning at 10:00 is Toddler Time! An informal, short Story Time for 12-36 months, with stories, music, movement, and fun – all to develop comfort in the library and a love for books. (It’s also a great networking time for adults!)
- Every Tuesday and Wednesday morning at 10:00 is Story Time for ages 3-6. Stories are based on a theme each week, accompanied by games, songs, crafts, promoting early literacy skills plus a love for the library. (Tuesday and Wednesday sessions are identical)
- Children’s Resource Center offers a fabulous Toddler Playgroup Thursday morning, February 8th at 10:00, especially for ages 1-3. They pack an amazing amount of learning and fun into an hour!
- Special Family Valentine Cookie decorating will be Saturday morning, February 10th! Drop by between 10:00 and noon to join confectionary expert Kelly Greene for a fun time - and leave with a beautiful heart cookie ready to give someone!
- 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten is a super-simple way to help your kids get ready for a lifetime of reading! Stop by to see how easy it is to get started.
Follow the Kids’ Library on Facebook and Instagram at CodyKidsRead, where we regularly post photos and news!
Even before your children start to actively demonstrate kindness, they can experience empathy. By reflecting on those feelings, you can guide them to the concepts of empathy, generosity, and kindness in a way that will make sense to them.
Grab a book like Rubylicious, where two of your kids' favorite characters — Pinkalicious and Peterrific — must decide what to do when they're granted one wish and end up learning how being selfless and kind is the best reward of all. After reading the story, you can talk to your child about what they learned from the story, such as how hard the decision was for Pinkalicious and Peter and what they gained by making the choice they did. Stories like Rubylicious are great conversation starters and fun demonstrations that are easy for kids of all ages to understand.
These conversations are a great way to introduce the idea of kindness to young kids in their first years at school. And it can open up the conversation for everyone in your family or classroom to give their own definition of kindness and talk about the gestures they appreciate.
Use Play Pretend, Games, and Stories
While talking can be a productive way to teach kindness to kids, sparking their imagination with a silly game or an engaging story can be even better. Try having a smiling competition to show them just how contagious a bright smile really is, which can teach them this simple expression of kindness. Or, you can play the compliment game, where kids gather around in a circle and pass a ball back and forth. The child with the ball must compliment the person they're about to throw to before they toss the ball.
Play with them and introduce situations that make them consider how others feel. You might have a doll bump their head and ask the child what they should do to comfort it. You can also pose some hypothetical questions, like how they'd feel about being in a tough situation or how they would want to be treated.
Be an Example of Kindness
Kids are incredibly observant, and they learn a lot about how to treat others by watching the adults in their life. Demonstrate kindness when you are out and about so that you can live by example and have stories to tell the children in your life. You should also show kindness toward others when your kids are around so they can watch and mimic you.
Promote Kindness Through Selfless Habits and Experiences
You can encourage kids to become pros at showing kindness by helping instill good habits, like using manners, expressing gratitude or compassion, and doing random acts of kindness. Activities like volunteering or participating in community action will make for a great family bonding experience, as well as a chance to learn.
Help Them Understand That Kindness Isn't Always Easy
As adults, we know that sometimes being nice to someone can be hard, especially if that person hasn't been nice to us. However, one of the best lessons you can teach a child is to do the right thing and show kindness, even when you don't necessarily feel like it. Again, make sure to model that behavior, too, so they can learn by example.
Focus on How It Feels To Be Kind
Parents can offer stories from their own lives to demonstrate kindness, generosity, and empathy in the real world. Consider telling your kids of times when you experienced kindness from others or when you were kind to someone else. Focus on how good it made you feel to be the recipient of kindness or how you felt fulfilled from being nice to someone else.
Or, make it a habit to have children reflect after being kind to someone and consider the positive feelings they get when they're kind and generous. This can help them learn to be kind without needing to be rewarded and to feel good about doing it, just like in Rubylicious!
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About TANF/POWER
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) provides temporary cash assistance for families in need. In Wyoming, the case assistance program is called Personal Opportunities with Employment Responsibilities (POWER).
There are two forms of POWER in Wyoming:
- The POWER Work program
- Helps individuals find employment or other forms of financial stability based specifically on YOUR needs.
- Provides free Child Support assistance.
- The POWER Caretaker Relative program
- Provides cash assistance to family members, such as Grandparents, Aunts or Uncles, who are the primary caregiver to children whose parents are not in the same home and are responsible for the daily care and control of the children.
- Provides free Child Support assistance.
Who is eligible?
Wyoming resident who are:
- Responsible for daily care of a child under the age of 18.
- Meet citizenship and alien status requirements.
- Meet income and resource requirements.
- (POWER) Caretaker Relative program only counts the income and resources of the child, not the caretaker relative.)
How to Apply:
You can apply for TANF/POWER programs by downloading and completing the application and contacting your local DFS office local Department of Family Services office for an appointment.
For more information, contact your local DFS office.
The new emergency alert system will provide rapid notification of hazardous and urgent situations using a mix of telephone calls, text and email messages, and even TTY/TDD service for the hearing impaired. The system sends thousands of these messages to geographically targeted households in seconds, and can simultaneously deliver them to an even broader audience via social media, as well as sending broadcast messages to most current mobile telephones (made since 2011) in an affected area by providing access to FEMA’s Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) system.
The County plans to use the service primarily for alerts about weather and environmental hazards, criminal activity, and missing persons. Landline phones are automatically enrolled for Community alerts, but Weather alerts to landline phones and Community and Weather alerts to VoIP phones, mobile phones, and email addresses are only included when people enroll.
Residents and people who work in Park County are encouraged to enroll now (using a Park County address) either by calling or texting “Alert” to 307-213-7177 or by going to the website: http://hyper-reach.com/wyparksignup.html. Residents can get emergency alerts via their Alexa-enabled smart speakers just by saying “Alexa, enable Hyper-Reach” and following the Alexa-provided instructions. Residents can also download the Hyper-Reach Anywhere app on their smartphones. Hyper-Reach Anywhere is a free smartphone app that allows individual residents to manage and monitor the alerts they receive, both for their home, office, and other addresses they care about, such as those of elderly relatives or friends.
These notification services will be utilized by the Park County Sheriff’s Office, Park County Office of Homeland Security, Cody Police Department, Powell Police Department and the Park County Public Works department to keep the public informed during times requiring emergency notifications.
For residents who had subscribed to the Code Red notification service previously used by Park County, you do not need to sign up again. All prior subscriber information was imported to Hyper-reach.
Contact Info
Email: brookesieg@park6.org
Website: www.park6.org
Location: 919 Cody Avenue, Cody, WY, USA
Phone: (307) 272-0153
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