Our Kids, Our Business 2016 What: Walla Walla’s eighth annual early learning awareness luncheon presented by the Walla Walla Valley Early Learning Coalition. Event Theme: “Putting the Pieces Together in Early Learning: System Building for Our Children, Our Future” Welcoming Special Guests: Dr. Kathleen M. Murray, President, Whitman College …
The ELC hosted an interactive Portable Early Learning Lab at the Friends Family Festival, downtown on October 3rd. We had activities for families to do with their young children and babies (birth to age five). We visited with families and distributed parenting education materials including Washington State’s Early Learning & Development Guidelines and Love Talk Play materials. Whitman student-volunteers…
About Trauma Smart Walla Walla
Trauma Smart training and practice are continuing in 2016! This collaborative initiative is a large-scale, ongoing, early childhood resilience-building program for early educators with our local Head Start and Head Start/ECEAP programs.
Trauma Smart Video
In 2012 the Walla Walla Valley Early Learning Coalition (ELC) began an ambitious effort to assess the health of our community’s early learning system. This system includes parents, families, neighbors, early learning professionals, schools, city and county government, colleges, non-profits and others. Research shows that healthy early learning systems create high-quality early learning experiences and better outcomes for children and society. Research shows…