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Focused on the wellness of Children and Families
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OUR STORY
Project Whole Child(PWC) is a Sonoma County based program focusing on small but significant changes to build strong & healthy, emotionally connected children, families, and community.
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Our programming helps to ensure optimal outcomes for children & their families. Using strategies that strengthen families, build protective factors, promote individual growth, help systems be more responsive to families, and strengthen communities capacities as safe and healthy environments thus reducing child abuse and child neglect.
UPCOMING EVENTS
STRENGTHENING FAMILIES PROTECTIVE FACTORS FRAMEWORK CERTIFICATION
Learn small but significant changes to build strong & healthy, emotionally connected children, families, and community
In this training you will learn the Strengthening Families Framework, a strength-based theory developed by the Center for Study of Social Policy and the National Alliance of Children's Trust and Prevention Funds(CTFA).
Participants who complete the two-day training will become certified through the CTFA in the Strengthening Families Framework.
The Five Protective Factors:
*Social Connections
*Parental Resiliency
*Knowledge of Parenting and Child Development
*Concrete Support in Times of Need
*Social & Emotional Competence of Children
Introduction Course
December 17th 6-8PM
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Ask us about a hosting a training!
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PROJECT WHOLE CHILD HAS COLLABORATED WITH:
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Peacetown
The Toyworks
Beale Air Force Base
Gravenstein Health Action
Charles M. Schulz Museum
Santa Rosa Junior College
Castle Preschool & Daycare
Sebastopol Center for the ARTS
Sonoma State Children's School
Sonoma County ACEs Connection
Child Care Planning Council of Sonoma County
Ask us about how we can collaborate!
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Elizabeth Beaty-Smith
Founder of Project Whole Child
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Elizabeth is a Best Selling Author, founder of PWC, Community Chair of Sonoma County ACEs Connection, Board member of Peacetown and facilitator of Peacetown Family Village. After experiencing trauma that left her with PTSD she left her career in the medical field to offer others the social-emotional tools she had learned. Having children of her own, she wanted to create a program that broke unhealthy patterns to change the world one peaceful family at a time.
She holds certifications in Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Child Psychology, Suicide Prevention, Therapeutic Art, Personal Training, Registered Children's Yoga Instructor(E-RYCT), Registered Yoga Instructor(E-RYT), certified in 6 modalities of Yoga, and was a trainer for a Internationally recognized children's Yoga program certifying others to teach Children's Yoga. Elizabeth is a licensed trainer through the National Alliance of Children’s Trust and Prevention, skilled in delivering the research-based protective factors framework known as Strengthening Families™. She believes teaching children how to handle big emotions and skills to cope with life is just as important as learning ABC’s and 123’s.
CONTACT US
Sebastopol, CA 95472
(530) 329-5109