Growing Community Resilience_March 2022

Please join us on Tuesday, March 22nd at 5pm MT/ 6pm CT  for our next Growing Community Resilience Series online gathering to continue exploring civic engagement and community building practice.

During this 60 minute event, WFAN members will have the opportunity to hear an array of farming, parenting, and childcare perspectives, from on-the-ground program, research, and policy professionals. We will explore topics such as health insurance, policy gaps, employer education, elder care, relationship and marriage wellness — and more. There will be time before the conclusion of our panel for participants to ask questions and share thoughts.  

We encourage all registrants to read through our community agreements for GCR sharing, found HERE>>

For information about our 3/22 panelists, please visit HERE>>

Panelists: 

• Chris Frakes (Program Director, Farmwell Wisconsin)
• Yolanda Owens (Pathways and Partnerships Strategist for The Ohio State University College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences (CFAES)
• Dawn Wiand (President, Iowa Women’s Foundation)
• Shoshanah Inwood, PhD (Associate Professor of Community, Food and Economic Development, OSU)
• Florence Becot, PhD ( Rural Sociologist and Associate Research Scientist, National Farm Medicine Center)

For our March 22nd meeting, please explore some or all of the following resources to use as launching points for deeper reflection.

• Family farms are struggling with two hidden challenges: health insurance and childcare’ https://theconversation.com/family-farms-are-struggling-with-two-hidden-challenges-health-insurance-and-child-care-159542
• https://www.clasp.org/publications/report/brief/anti-racist-approach-supporting-child-care-through-covid-19-and-beyond

• https://www.clasp.org/blog/standing-black-communities-standing-against-white-supremacy-child-care-and-early-education

• Child Care in Farm Families 
• https://iawf.org/get-the-facts/child-care-solutions/
• https://iawf.org/business/
• https://iawf.org/child-care-solutions-fund/

We will send the Zoom access in the confirmation email after you register for this event. We will be sending reminder emails with the link closer to the date of the event. We encourage you to join with a computer so you can have access to full Zoom capabilities. We will be encouraging the use of video and audio during the breakout sessions. If you will be joining with a phone, please be sure to join the call at least 10 minutes early, so we can rename your Zoom profile according to your preferred breakout group. New to Zoom? Check out these tutorial videos.