{"id":91,"date":"2025-03-27T15:55:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T22:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/cteach\/?page_id=91"},"modified":"2025-06-23T11:47:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T18:47:34","slug":"past-projects","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/cteach\/our-work\/past-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Past Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wsu-row wsu-row--sidebar-right\" >\r\n    \n<div class=\"wsu-column\"  style=\"\">\r\n\t\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Community Transformation Grant: Start Healthy. Start Now.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Start Health. Start Now. (SHSN) was an effort to promote public health activities to reduce chronic disease, promote healthier lifestyles, reduce health disparities, and control health care spending in Spokane, Stevens, Pend Oreille, Ferry, Whitman and Adams counties. The initiative focused on more than 50,000 children, families, licensed childcare staff and early childhood educators and the families of childcare staff and early childhood educators. C.teach developed and led childcare specific trauma-informed care trainings that provided attendees with the tools for trauma sensitive interventions and offered opportunities to practice and apply lessons learned.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">For more information visit<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/community-minded.org\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/community-minded.org\/\">Community-Minded Enterprises<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<\/div>\r\n\n\n<div class=\"wsu-column\"  style=\"\">\r\n\t\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"314\" height=\"105\" src=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/extension\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2025\/03\/Step-up-and-go-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/extension\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2025\/03\/Step-up-and-go-logo.jpg 314w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/extension\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2025\/03\/Step-up-and-go-logo-300x100.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 314px) 100vw, 314px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"448\" height=\"155\" src=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/extension\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2025\/03\/EPHF.png\" alt=\"Empire Health Foundation logo.\" class=\"wp-image-149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/extension\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2025\/03\/EPHF.png 448w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/extension\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2025\/03\/EPHF-300x104.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"404\" height=\"90\" src=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/extension\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2025\/03\/community-minded-enterprises-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/extension\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2025\/03\/community-minded-enterprises-logo.jpg 404w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/extension\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2025\/03\/community-minded-enterprises-logo-300x67.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 404px) 100vw, 404px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\r\n\n<\/div>\n\n<section  class=\"wsu-section  wsu-width--full\"  >\r\n    <div class=\"wsu-section__inner wsu-width--content\">    \n<div class=\"wsu-row wsu-row--single\" >\r\n    \n<div class=\"wsu-column\"  style=\"\">\r\n\t\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Safe Start<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Safe Start Evaluation Project goal was to implement a universal response strategy for children exposed to violence by integrating social emotional learning and response to trauma as complementary service strategies in publicly funded early learning programs.\u00a0 WSU partnered with Spokane Head Start to implement Fostering Resiliency in Early Learning Environments (FREE)\u00a0training for staff.\u00a0 The program\u2019s goal was to demonstrate professional development strategies that enhance early learning system capacity to address the needs of trauma exposed children and their families in a sustainable and replicable model of development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Project Partners<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/circleofsecurity.net\/\">Circle of Security<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.traumacenter.org\/research\/ascot.php\">The Trauma Center at Justice Resource Institute<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ojp.gov\/programs\/juvjustice.htm\">Office of Justice Programs- Juvenile Justice<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ojjdp.gov\/\">Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rand.org\/\">Rand Corporation<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ccs.spokane.edu\/Head-Start.aspx\">Community Colleges of Spokane<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<\/div>\r\n\n<\/div>\n    <\/div><\/section>\n\n<div class=\"wsu-row wsu-spacing-before--xmedium wsu-row--single\" >\r\n    \n<div class=\"wsu-column\"  style=\"\">\r\n\t\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Weaving Bright Futures<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In partnership with local elementary schools and the Spokane Regional Health District, this project aimed to work with families to identify the root causes of their stress and to facilitate access to the community services needed as well as consultation and support to staff. The <a href=\"http:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-extension\/uploads\/sites\/2101\/2015\/03\/SRHD-ACE-Handout.pdf\">Stress and Early Brain Growth (PDF<\/a>) resource was developed by partners in this work to help explain how toxic stress impacts early brain growth and development.<a href=\"http:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-extension\/uploads\/sites\/2101\/2015\/03\/SRHD-ACE-Handout.pdf\"><br><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\r\n\n<\/div>\n        <div id=\"cahnrs-back-to-top\" class=\"cahnrs-back-to-top\" hidden aria-hidden=\"true\">\n            <a id=\"cahnrs-back-to-top-btn\" class=\"cahnrs-back-to-top__btn\" href=\"#product-top\" aria-label=\"Back to top\">\n                <span class=\"cahnrs-back-to-top__icon\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u2191<\/span>\n                <span class=\"cahnrs-back-to-top__label\">Back to top<\/span>\n            <\/a>\n        <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2191 Back to top<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":93,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_expiration_date":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/cteach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/91"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/cteach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/cteach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/cteach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/cteach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/cteach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/91\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/cteach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/91\/revisions\/341"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/cteach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/93"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/cteach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/cteach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/cteach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}