Relying on Rural Resilience:
This Must Be The Place: Examples of Rural Community Approaches to Meeting Early Care and Education Needs

Bradford Wiles PhD present...

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This webinar will present a summary of the unique early care and education facilitators and challenges facing rural families and communities. We will focus on family, child, and economic development benefits, recommendations for rural community capacity-building of early care and education will be provided.   
 

This quarterly webinar series, Relying on Rural Resilience, highlights findings based on 20+ years of research with low-income, rural families across the United States. These results yield powerful information about actions that family outreach professionals can take to promote rural health and resilience. Presenters share key findings from the NC1011/NC1171 HATCH projects that spark facilitated breakout discussion among Extension and other family outreach professionals regarding how the findings can impact YOUR work and families in YOUR rural community. 

 
 

Participants in this webinar will: 

1. Learn about research on early care and education considering rural families and communities. 

2. Identify ways to apply these findings to their specific programming and community outreach. 

3. Brainstorm strategies to develop resilience in rural families with other outreach professionals. 

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