Aspen Family Connections is here to advocate for the needs of families in our community.
You can read about some of our efforts here.
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https://vimeo.com/481312854
Introducing Awesome Aspenites Video Series
Introducing a New Video Series... Awesome Aspenites! Aspen Family Connections has met so many amazing people and we wanted to bring you some that are directly impacting AFC and our community. Our first interview is with Cam Daniel, Pitkin County Sheriff Deputy and the Aspen School District Student Resource Officer. So today... enjoy our first installment of AWESOME ASPENITES! If [...]
Growing Community: Teaching Tolerance
I wish you could have been there! Kids First just hosted our annual in-service training for all the child care programs staff in Pitkin County. Everyone successfully Zoomed into the meeting, and we loved hearing Dr. Rosemarie Allen share information about implicit bias, microaggressions, white spaces and how we look at ourselves and our classrooms with new insight. Teachers and [...]
Growing Community: There’s enough food for all tables
This column ends up with a blatant commercial, so apologies in advance. This week, we want to talk about food. Food: that endless source of controversy, topic of discussion and fascination in modern life. If your home is anything like ours, the acquisition, preparation and consumption of food are the only topics discussed more than homework. Remember that old proverb, [...]
YOU GOT THIS… PARENTING EVENT with Emily Supino, MA, LPC
This week, our YOU GOT THIS... Parenting Event will be with Emily Supino, MA, LPC. Emily is a local therapist with a wealth of information to support children. She spoke with us in our summer series about supporting young children with resilience during this time. You can find a recording of this event on our resource page. This Wednesday, she [...]
Growing Community: Nothing fights Powerlessness like a Plan
Please, just make it go away. ‘This too shall pass,” is a well-worn truism that most of us have invoked during these past six months of pandemic. Something about saying it can be helpful - maybe as an appeal to our reserves of resilience, a reminder of hard times we’ve coped with during our lives, or even to the inspirational [...]
YOU GOT THIS… Parenting Events
This last spring, we launched a new series of Parenting workshops called YOU GOT THIS... We had 4 presenters share with families on various topics. Aaron Garland spoke with us about supporting teens executive functions skills and creating healthy schedules for them at home. Meg Dangler gave us 7 parenting survival tips for the summer. Emily Supino spoke about resilience [...]
Growing Community: It’s school time – but not as we know it
Every family with children, regardless of their kids’ ages, is braced for the new school year. A time traditionally filled with excitement (of parents!), apprehension (everybody) and expensive forays to Target and Walmart, is, this year, filled instead with crushing dread. And this, for reasons we all know so well by now, that we are not going to mention them – [...]
Growing Community: Readiness, a state of mind
How on earth are parents supposed to help their children be ready for school or child care? There is so much uncertainty and constant change, and we’re all getting more than a little worn out, honestly. It used to be that if children could say their ABCs, count, and knew their colors, they were ready for school. Everything about [...]
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https://vimeo.com/481312854
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Introducing Awesome Aspenites Video Series
Introducing a New Video Series... Awesome Aspenites! Aspen Family Connections has met so many amazing people and we wanted to bring you some that are directly impacting AFC and our community. Our first interview is with Cam Daniel, Pitkin County Sheriff Deputy and the Aspen School District Student Resource Officer. So today... enjoy our first installment of AWESOME ASPENITES! If [...]
Growing Community: Teaching Tolerance
I wish you could have been there! Kids First just hosted our annual in-service training for all the child care programs staff in Pitkin County. Everyone successfully Zoomed into the meeting, and we loved hearing Dr. Rosemarie Allen share information about implicit bias, microaggressions, white spaces and how we look at ourselves and our classrooms with new insight. Teachers and [...]
Growing Community: There’s enough food for all tables
This column ends up with a blatant commercial, so apologies in advance. This week, we want to talk about food. Food: that endless source of controversy, topic of discussion and fascination in modern life. If your home is anything like ours, the acquisition, preparation and consumption of food are the only topics discussed more than homework. Remember that old proverb, [...]
YOU GOT THIS… PARENTING EVENT with Emily Supino, MA, LPC
This week, our YOU GOT THIS... Parenting Event will be with Emily Supino, MA, LPC. Emily is a local therapist with a wealth of information to support children. She spoke with us in our summer series about supporting young children with resilience during this time. You can find a recording of this event on our resource page. This Wednesday, she [...]
Growing Community: Nothing fights Powerlessness like a Plan
Please, just make it go away. ‘This too shall pass,” is a well-worn truism that most of us have invoked during these past six months of pandemic. Something about saying it can be helpful - maybe as an appeal to our reserves of resilience, a reminder of hard times we’ve coped with during our lives, or even to the inspirational [...]
YOU GOT THIS… Parenting Events
This last spring, we launched a new series of Parenting workshops called YOU GOT THIS... We had 4 presenters share with families on various topics. Aaron Garland spoke with us about supporting teens executive functions skills and creating healthy schedules for them at home. Meg Dangler gave us 7 parenting survival tips for the summer. Emily Supino spoke about resilience [...]
Growing Community: It’s school time – but not as we know it
Every family with children, regardless of their kids’ ages, is braced for the new school year. A time traditionally filled with excitement (of parents!), apprehension (everybody) and expensive forays to Target and Walmart, is, this year, filled instead with crushing dread. And this, for reasons we all know so well by now, that we are not going to mention them – [...]
Growing Community: Readiness, a state of mind
How on earth are parents supposed to help their children be ready for school or child care? There is so much uncertainty and constant change, and we’re all getting more than a little worn out, honestly. It used to be that if children could say their ABCs, count, and knew their colors, they were ready for school. Everything about [...]
