The Society for The Protection and Care of Children

From our partners at Bivona. Important words.

We'd like to give thanks to a generous friend who wishes to remain anonymous. She dropped off many presents for the families in our programs!

THANK YOU to all of our #GivingTuesday ROC stars who helped us #ROCtheDay! We exceeded our match grant goal and raised over $1200 this year thanks to your generosity! We'd also like to thank Brown & Brown of NY for once again offering the match grant for our campaign. It is through the support of you, our community, that we are able to continue providing the services of our eight programs to the most vulnerable members of the greater Rochester community. On behalf of the children and families we serve, thank you!

We would like to thank Spoke Cycle and Fitness Studio for doing a holiday donation drive to benefit the more than 7,000 families served by SPCC! We appreciate your kindness and generosity!

The SPCC WALMART CHALLENGE! Each girl had $10 and 15 minutes to shop in Walmart for gifts for SPCC families. Plus Mom threw in a few gift cards too! What a great way to care for others during the holiday season! Thank you!!!!

We are SO CLOSE to meeting our #ROCtheDay match grant! Will you please help us meet our match grant goal? Every donation helps! Thank you for being an SPCC ROC Star! https://tinyurl.com/SPCCROC2020

Today is #GivingTuesday and we are READY to #ROCtheDay! We hope you will be a ROC Star for SPCC by donating today: https://tinyurl.com/SPCCROC2020

Volunteer opportunity! Please email Lisa Butt, President & CEO, if you are interested at [email protected].

This timely resource from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network, "Supporting Children and Teens During This Holiday Season", offers ideas on ways to connect, encourage self care, and access mental health crisis contacts as holidays may look so different this year due to COVID. At SPCC, we especially appreciate the recommendation to start a conversation with your children about what has changed and check in about how the changes are feeling. https://www.nctsn.org//supporting_children_and_teens_durin

Please consider supporting SPCC's Holiday Project 2020

SPCC welcomes the opportunity to participate in this challenge offered by United Way of Greater Rochester as we stand together in this work towards equity in our community. We hope that this 21 day experience will enhance and enrich our journey toward being antiracist as individuals and an agency. https://www.uwrochester.org//21-Day-Racial-Equity-Challenge

We are pleased to share that the work of our Therapeutic Visitation Program (TVP) is featured in the September issue of the Zero To Three Journal. The article, Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health-Informed Therapeutic Visitation: An Overview and Evaluation, was authored by Samantha VanHout from Mt. Hope Family Center, and SPCC's Sarah Fitzgibbons and Alana Russotti. The article includes some very exciting findings from Dr. VanHout's research focused on the impact of TVP services. SPCC is thrilled to be able to offer TVP's excellent services to our community, and to serve as a model for therapeutic visitation program designs across the country!

October 1st marks the beginning of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and SPCC's CEO Lisa Butt, who serves as the Chairperson for the Rochester/Monroe County Domestic Violence Consortium kicked off this season of increased awareness at a press conference this morning. A new study confirms trends that domestic violence professionals have been suspecting: the COVID-19 pandemic and related stay-at-home orders are correlated with increases of domestic violence incidences by 10-3...3% in cities in the United States and across the globe. (citation in comments). Please join SPCC and our community partners in increasing awareness, and decreasing domestic violence through advocacy, promotion, prevention and intervention efforts!

A message from SPCC to our community.

Un entrenamiento co-presentada por expertos en salud mental infantil y Modelo Pirámide para directores de la primera infancia! Registrarse aquí: https://us02web.zoom.us//tZwscOChqTMrE9bl7h3k-ZG6l_4SjeCCd Con nuestras amigas, Child Care Council, Inc.!

As educators, school staff, and early care and learning professionals welcome children back in the midst of Covid-19, there are many new social, emotional and mental health challenges and opportunities to navigate. SPCC is proud to have partnered with Children's Institute: Whole Child Connection and University of Rochester Medical Center: Department of Psychiatry in the creation of two new publications for education professionals regarding Best Practice Recommendations to Su...pport Student’s Social-Emotional Development & Mental Health in the midst of Covid-19. The first focuses on elementary and the second on middle and high school students. Each publication begins with a one-page info-graphic, followed by three pages of expanded detail. These publications are the second and third in our community’s collaborative series aimed at supporting best practices in schools, child care and early learning centers as they reopen their doors this summer and fall in the midst of Covid-19. Our first publication, in collaboration with the Child Care Council, Inc., focused on children 0-6 years old and can be found here: https://www.spcc-roch.org//SPCC-IECMH-Childcare-Reopening- Please follow the links below to the high-resolution versions of both new publications, and share widely! https://www.childrensinstitute.net//Full%20Pre%20K%20Eleme https://www.childrensinstitute.net//Returning%20to%20Middl

Registration is now open! Please join us on September 10th at Midvale for our 33rd Annual Children's Classic Golf Tournament!

SPCC's Mary Ellen Institute is pleased to share a wonderful conversation with Danielle Nicholson (Director of WIC), Bonnie Allen, and Samantha Colson (both IECMH Trainers & Consultants) as they share their personal and professional journey of receiving and providing reflective supervision using Robert Weigand’s 2012 article, Reflective Supervision: Discoveries of an Accidental Tourist to inspire their discussion. If you are interested in learning more about reflective supervision/consultation or the field of infant and early childhood mental health, we invite you to listen and share your thoughts below! (link to the article is in the comments).

Join our team! Our Family Trauma Intervention Program is looking for a full time (40 hour) Case Manager! For detailed job description, please click here: https://www.spcc-roch.org/about/careers/

Sending nurturance and warmth to all on this Father's Day art cred Bless the Messy

Today, on Juneteenth, join SPCC in purposeful reflection on the historical traumatic, systematic injustice of slavery, celebration of freedom and achievements of African-Americans in our country, and advocacy for dismantling racism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1UIfeVP3vk&feature=youtu.be