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I'm happy to share that the 2018 Kids Reading Across RI selection is The First Rule of Punk by Celia C. Pérez. Thank you for your suggestions, and thanks to the KRARI committee for reading far and wide! Mark you calendar for the kickoff event scheduled for Saturday, May 19th from 2pm-4pm at the State House. Next month I will be asking if your library would like to have a table at the kickoff, so start brainstorming a rocking activity, display, or handout for the event! Author (and librarian) Celia C. Pérez will also join us for a just for grownups meet and greet the evening of Friday, May 18th. More details, along with the official announcement, will be coming soon.

OLIS will be offering Youth Mental Health First Aid Training on Tuesday, March 27 from
8:30am - 4:30pm at Bradley Hospital.

Youth Mental Health First Aid is an 8-hour training course designed to give members of the public key skills to help an adolescent who is developing a mental health problem or experiencing a mental health crisis. The 8-hour course covers a range of common disorders and potential crises such as helping a young person who is having a panic attack, is contemplating suicide or is struggling with substance abuse.

This training will be held at Bradley Hospital and will be led by hospital staff. Youth Mental Health First Aid is geared towards individuals who desire to learn more about responding to a youth ages 12-18 in behavioral crisis. Because this training is limited to 20 participants and requires a significant time commitment, interested participants are asked to submit this application. Professional and paraprofessional library staff working with youth ages 12-18 in public and school libraries are encouraged to apply. Priority will be given to applicants whose primary service area includes tweens and teens.

The application will be open until February 1 and all applicants will be notified by February 2. For more information about Mental Health First Aid please visit Lifespan.

Apply now to be part of the Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation Great Stories Club pilot program!

The American Library Association (ALA) invites libraries to apply for a pilot of the Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation (TRHT) Great Stories Club, a thematic reading and discussion program series that will engage underserved teens through literature-based library outreach programs and racial healing work.

Up to 25 selected libraries will work with small groups of teens to read and discuss three titles on the theme "Growing Up Brave on the Margins." The TRHT Great Stories Club will feature books that explore the coming-of-age experience for young people in historically marginalized groups, including Ms. Marvel Volume 1: No Normal by G. Willow Wilson and Adrian Alphona, The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas, and March: Book One by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell.

Visit the project guidelines and apply online by February 16, 2018.

The TRHT GSC is a part of the Kellogg Foundation’s Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation efforts, a comprehensive, national and community-based process to plan for and bring about transformational and sustainable change, and to address the historic and contemporary effects of racism.

The TRHT GSC is supported by a grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.

It's that time of year! The Collaborative Summer Library Program is looking for general theme suggestions for 2021 and 2022.

Guidelines: These suggestions should be thought provoking, exciting, and accessible to all libraries! Upon submissions, themes will be reviewed by Manual Committees for trademark infringement, accessibility, and will be narrowed down to the top themes to be voted on by CSLP membership.

This survey must be completed by January 11, 2018 so that submissions can be sent to CSLP by the January 12 deadline.

The final discussion list for the Mock Newbery meeting on January 17 at the Cranston Public Library, and the reading list for the Mock Caldecott meeting on January 23 at the Greenville Public Library are now available. Check out the the lists below for more info.

Aim High: Supporting Out-of-School Time Programs Serving Disadvantaged Middle School Youth (1/26)
Coretta Scott King Book Awards Donation Grant (1/31)
USSBY Bridge to Understanding Award (1/31)

*new* Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation Great Stories Club (2/16)

Bank of America Foundation Grants (varies)
Library Pipeline: Awesome Foundation Innovation in Libraries Grant (due between the 1st - 15th of each month)

Graduate Certificate of Professional Studies in Youth Experience

applications accepted until February 16

Information Session, January 16 7pm

Excite Transformation™ For Libraries

application for cohort 2 training in RI due 6/14/18

February
World Read Aloud Day (February 1)
Take Your Child to the Library Day (February 3)

March
Read Across America Day (March 2)
Teen Tech Week (March 4-10)

Registration for all OLIS winter/spring 2018 continuing education programs is now open! Check out all the offerings and our new look!

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