Pinnacle Developmental Services

Today is National Eat Outside Day!

After the kids get out of school, go home, let them change clothes, let them play a little, let them gather some of their favorite foods for an outdoor meal & then you all choose a spot to go and eat outside!

It’s after hours, but we’re still at the office prepping at the for our virtual Floyd Co. Family Support Strategy Team Parent Led Advisory Committee Meeting tonight at 6:15 PM!

“It’s a Listening Session”

“Do not listen with the intent to reply.
But with the intent to understand.”

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So in our new norm of providing trainings virtually, this calls for a booster training for the Standards of Quality for Family Strengthening & Support!

In a nutshell, this training helps me work with youth serving agencies/school systems or any organization who interacts with families, in order to help them work better with the families that they work with.

A lot of these principles are common sense, such as, “Is it enough to provide flyers for events in other languages than English?

No, it is not enough, but what about not only providing flyers in other languages, but also having representatives from each language origin present to provide guidance and understanding and/or providing headsets to translate to the ESOL families.

Kids who eat dinner with their families have stronger literacy skills than kids who don't eat family meals.

shares ways to strengthen that connection and have fun doing it!

It is with great pleasure that we introduce you to our Carol O. Willis Mini Grant Recipient, Ferst Readersof Floyd County!

Ferst Readers was founded in 1999 to address the growing problem of children from low income communities entering kindergarten without basic early literacy skills and school readiness, a preventable problem with life long impact. To address this issue, Ferst Readers mails an age appropriate book every month to registered children from birth to their 5th birthday- at no cost for to the family. Because parent engagement is vital in the preschool year, each book comes with a parent newsletter that reinforces children!

Improved School Success with an emphasis on Childhood Literacy is one of our strategies that each applicant was required to follow.

Ferst Readers will be collaborating with Rome City Schools - Rome, GA to ensure that every registered student (age appropriate) receives a book!

Kids are still asking questions about the Coronavirus and 2 African American med school students wrote a book entitled, “Why We Stay Home” & you can download it for FREE!

While the characters of this book are brown girls, it is a book that can and will reach all races!

It is available in multiple languages!

Share this link and download your free book here, https://www.millieandsuzie.com/ .

This evening’s Virtual Nurturing Communities wasn’t what we expected, IT WAS BETTER!!! We have established our Parent-led Advisory Council (The PAC)!

The Floyd County Family Support Strategy Team Community Partners such as
Rome Floyd County Commission on Children and Youth, Exchange Club Family Resource Center, Rome-Floyd YMCA,Restoration Rome
pulled concerned community guardians together for a virtual dinner prepared by .



Tina Bartleson Gabrielle Hawkins Stewart LaDonna Collins Jessica Glover

Check out how Elmo’s dad talks to him about why people are protesting. https://youtu.be/xBUFcv0y0yk

Excited to be partnering to be a table host for tonight’s Virtual Parent Cafe Night through Strengthening Families Georgia for parents all over the state of Georgia!

It’s Father’s Day Weekend & I am looking forward to asking Parker these Quality Questions in the link that has shared to open up the dialogue for showing gratitude for his daddy, !

Spend some time with your child and ask them these questions & see if you can find a way to incorporate their answers into a “Forever” Gift!

Happy Father’s Day Weekend to all the Fathers & Father Figures!