{"id":10899,"date":"2024-05-20T09:45:28","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T14:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin-new\/?post_type=campus_story&p=10899"},"modified":"2024-05-20T09:45:28","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T14:45:28","slug":"uw-green-bay-embracing-community-outreach","status":"publish","type":"campus_story","link":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/story\/uw-green-bay-embracing-community-outreach\/","title":{"rendered":"UW-Green Bay: Embracing Community Outreach"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Brooke Lemke leads a presentation on supporting children’s mental health. Lemke, a parent educator\/community outreach coordinator with the Sheboygan County Family Resource Center, recently earned a certificate in Pediatric Mental Health through UW-Green Bay’s Division of Community Engagement and Workforce Training.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Brooke Lemke is a Parent Educator\/Community Outreach Coordinator with the Sheboygan County Family Resource Center (FRC) and recently earned a certificate in Pediatric Mental Health. Brooke has embraced the community outreach requirement of the certificate and has so far given four (and counting) presentations.<\/p>\n

In her four presentations, Brooke has educated over 44 childcare employees. She has six more presentations scheduled yet this spring. Brooke wanted to do more with her position at the FRC. Earning the certificate and making community presentations was a perfect fit and growth opportunity for her and the FRC. The 60-minute presentation she put together is called \u201cSupporting Children\u2019s Mental Health,\u201d and it utilizes a lot of the information she learned in the certificate program.<\/p>\n

Trish Erpelding, Executive Director of FRC, Sheboygan County, said, \u201cIt has been wonderful to see how many organizations responded so quickly to participate when Brooke began making her initial outreach in the community. It really shows how important this topic is, and how more education in infant and pediatric mental health is needed and wanted, especially for those in our area who work with young kids each day. I am proud to be a part of a community that is willing to take the time to learn more about this topic to better support the kids and families they work with, and even more proud that Brooke and the FRC are able to provide this information.\u201d<\/p>\n

Survey responses from participants at Brooke\u2019s presentations have been overwhelmingly positive and motivating:<\/p>\n

\u201cAngel moments are important and what I do matters to these kids!\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cMaking sure I create a safe and connected environment in my classroom.\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cGiving daycare kids in our classrooms attention and love mattes and is important.\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cThe brain is affected by experiences.\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cBeing more aware of things in the child\u2019s life and working to foster positive connections.\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cHow impactful adults in a child\u2019s life can be.\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cStaying calm when children are crying.\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cTrying to keep my level of intensity lower than that of a child [to help them regulate].\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The Family Resource Center of Sheboygan County has been around since 1997 and is dedicated to supporting young children, their families, and adults through parenting education and adult literacy programs, which are both offered free of charge. FRC has a strong reputation in the community for providing programming to support individuals and families, and they work hard to make sure their programming meets the needs of the community. Addressing mental health concerns continues to be a priority in Sheboygan County, and FRC is happy to be a support to the community in this area.<\/p>\n

The Pediatric Mental Health Certificate is offered through the\u00a0Division of Community Engagement and Workforce Training<\/a>\u00a0at UW-Green Bay. If you would like to learn more about the certificate or community outreach, please connect with Melissa Betke, Program Specialist,\u00a0betkem@uwgb.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Written by Tori Grant Welhouse<\/p>\n

Link to original story: https:\/\/news.uwgb.edu\/phlash\/news\/04\/02\/embracing-community-outreach\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brooke Lemke is a Parent Educator\/Community Outreach Coordinator with the Sheboygan County Family Resource Center (FRC) and recently earned a certificate in Pediatric Mental Health. Brooke has embraced the community outreach requirement of the certificate and has so far given four (and counting) presentations. In her four presentations, Brooke has educated over 44 childcare employees. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":10900,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","institution":[111],"story_category":[],"class_list":["post-10899","campus_story","type-campus_story","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","institution-uw-green-bay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/campus_story\/10899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/campus_story"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/campus_story"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"institution","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/institution?post=10899"},{"taxonomy":"story_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/story_category?post=10899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}