Before the meeting, please prepare for the discussion by: 

• Reviewing the Vook Club List here: https://www.handsandvoices.org/resources/pubs/OURChildrenVookClubSept2021.pdf
• Reading the ABC of Body Safety and Consent and The Feelings Wheel (watch at these links:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGicCpucU90   
  https://www.calm.com/blog/the-feelings-wheel
• Be prepared to share how the Vook Club has made an impact and to discuss what to “keep, stop and start”.
• What is on your “This Summer I Will” list to further the O.U.R. Project learning for yourself or others?
• What would you like to see discussed during next season?  
  

Primary Audience 

Chapter and program leaders, family-based support organizations, educators, health care providers, and individual family members.

Facilitator : Chresta Brinkman

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Agenda and Assignments

Join us for the O.U.R. Children’s Safety Project meeting. The time is finally here; summertime, sun, pools, popsicles and our annual review the of the Vook Club. In this meeting we will go over the Vook Club List, share stories of success, and brainstorm ways to improve and grow the list of books. We will also discuss a new book, ABC of Body Safety and Consent, and explore how to effectively use The Feelings Wheel for children and their caregivers. Towards the end of this session, we will share commitments for “This Summer I Will” and brainstorm ideas for the next season of the O.U.R. Children Project.

Before the meeting, please prepare for the discussion by: 

• Reviewing the Vook Club List here: https://www.handsandvoices.org/resources/pubs/OURChildrenVookClubSept2021.pdf
• Reading the ABC of Body Safety and Consent and The Feelings Wheel (watch at these links:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGicCpucU90   
  https://www.calm.com/blog/the-feelings-wheel
• Be prepared to share how the Vook Club has made an impact and to discuss what to “keep, stop and start”.
• What is on your “This Summer I Will” list to further the O.U.R. Project learning for yourself or others?
• What would you like to see discussed during next season?  
  

Primary Audience 

Chapter and program leaders, family-based support organizations, educators, health care providers, and individual family members.

Facilitator : Chresta Brinkman

*What is O.U.R. Children Safety Project - (Observe, Understand, and Respond)? 

Hands & Voices has created a Community of Learners, comprised of parents, family members and professionals, to explore and develop activities that will work to increase the safety and success of children who are deaf or hard of hearing. This welcoming and inclusive community of learner’s values participation from Hands & Voices leadership including GBYS and ASTra program staff. Through discussion and critical reflection, the group focuses on issues to increase awareness and understanding surrounding prevention of child maltreatment for deaf, hard of hearing and deaf plus children.

Together, members of O.U.R. identify and determine action steps that support others in their own communities that serve to observe and respond to instances of abuse, neglect and bullying, as well as cohesively work to enhance policies for prevention within the systems of care serving D/HH children and families. The O.U.R Children Safety Project incorporates the foundation and mission of Hands & Voices, and as such guides the message of prevention throughout Hands & Voices state and provincial chapters in order to carry out the work that enables deaf, hard of hearing and deaf plus children to reach their highest potential.

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