The Dollar General Literacy Foundation’s Adult Literacy Grants, Family Literacy Grants, and Summer Reading Grants are accepting applications through Feb. 17 (by 10:00 p.m. Central).The Dollar General Literacy Foundation provides grant funding to support literacy and education initiatives serving individuals of all ages. The Foundation funds nonprofit organizations, schools and libraries within a 15-mile radius of Dollar General stores in the states in which they operate. Learn more about grant eligibility and the application process.
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Free STEM Challenge Kits Available through 4-H
Galactic Quest is the 2021 4-H STEM Challenge, 4-H’s annual initiative to inspire kids everywhere to build confidence and spark interest in STEM. Libraries can get a free kit by filling out this online form as soon as possible—kits will be distributed on a first-come-first-served basis until supplies run out. Galactic Quest is suitable for kids aged 8–14 with little-to-no experience with STEM. Each kit serves 12 kids at a time and is reusable. To help improve the product, recipients will be asked to complete a short survey after they’ve had a chance to use the kits.
Learn more about Galactic Quest and the 4-H STEM Challenge at 4-h.org/STEMChallenge. Additional kits are available for purchase at https://shop4-h.org/products/galatic-quest. Questions? Please contact Griffin Schwed at gschwed@4-h.org.
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Free Webinar – Mental Health & Wellness 101
Date: Tuesday, February 08, 2022
Time: 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM
Place: Online at https://tinyurl.com/4sp2ufz8
Presenters: Mental Health Association in New York StateMental Health and Wellness 101 helps participants to understand mental health in a holistic context and utilize basic mental health awareness in order to self-care and help others.
Mental Health and Wellness 101 participants will:
– Increase basic knowledge of mental health to help reduce stigma.
– Understand Mental Health as a continuum of wellness that defines us every day — it is illness, recovery, and all of the space in between.
– Promote wellness, treatment seeking behavior, recovery, and self-care. Why is this important?
Consider this: the median time between the onset of mental illness (when symptoms first appear) and when an individual gets appropriate treatment is 10 years. During that time, a person is likely experiencing periods of increased symptomology and periods of wellness. Mental Health and recovery are dependent on an individual’s ability to recognize and manage where he/she is each day on the continuum between wellness and illness and take care accordingly, an important piece to quality of life.
Free to ESLN Members (MVLS libraries, select CDLC as your ESLN Council). Registration is required. -
Free Webinar – Transforming Teen Services in Your Library
Date: Thursday, February 03, 2022
Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Place: Online at https://lilrc.org/event-4561927
Presenters: Shauntee Burns-SimpsonDoes your library have a hard time getting teens through the door? Are you having a hard time engaging with the young adult population? While there may be no one-size-fits-all solution, this webinar will share some tools and approaches to engage with teens in your library.
Transforming Teen Services (T3) is a series of trainings designed to help improve library services for teens across four basic content areas:
- Connected Learning
- Computational Thinking
- Child and Youth Development
- Educational Equity
Learn about this series based training and transform teen services in your library.
Free to ESLN Members (MVLS libraries, select Other Library Resources Councils when registering). Registration is required.
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Online Training for Trustees – Trustee Handbook Book Club
Join co-authors of the Handbook for Library Trustees of New York State Jerry Nichols and Rebekkah Smith Aldrich for this fun and informative series! Each month trustees are encouraged to read a chapter of the Trustee Handbook and send in questions that the authors will address at live events later this year. Trustees from all public library systems in New York State are welcome. Library Directors from across the state are welcome to attend as well.
Program details can be found here. https://midhudson.org/trusteebookclub/ And, participants can submit their questions ahead of time by clicking here.
Sessions will be held as follows:
Tuesday, January 18, 2022 from 5:00-6:30pm: Budgets and Finance | Register Here
Tuesday, February 22, 2022 from 5:00-6:30pm: Facilities | Register Here
Tuesday, March 29, 2022 from 5:00-6:30pm: Policies and Risk Management | Register Here
Tuesday, April 19, 2022 from 5:00-6:30pm: Ethics and Conflicts of Interest + Intellectual Freedom, Censorship and Privacy | Register Here
Tuesday, May 03, 2022 from 5:00-6:30pm: Planning and Evaluation | Register Here
Tuesday, June 14, 2022 from 5:00-6:30pm: PR and Advocacy | Register Here
The first three sessions, focusing on Duties and Responsibilities, Library Board Meetings, and Personnel, were held in the fall of 2021. Recordings of those sessions, along with post-session tool kits for followup, are available here.
Ron Kirsop, Pioneer Library System executive director, and Brian Hildreth, Southern Tier Library System executive director, will be co-moderating these events.