Youth Services Interest Group

Do families visiting your library seem highly stressed by academic pressure? Do you know teens who fear they are failures if they don’t get accepted to their dream college? Do you know youth who seem so disconnected from school that they have given up? Do you know kids who are so pressured by academics that they don’t have time to just be kids? The Youth Mental Health Working Group (a group of staff from Alameda County, Santa Clara County, and San Mateo County libraries), wi...th funding from Pacific Library Partnership (PLP) is offering this free Zoom workshop from Challenge Success to help library staff better serve families experiencing negative effects from school stress. Challenge Success is a non-profit affiliated with Stanford University Graduate School of Education. Since 2007, Challenge Success has worked with over 450 school communities around the US and other countries to embrace a broad definition of success and to implement research-based strategies that promote student well-being and engagement with learning. See more

Looking for someone to collaborate with during COVID-19? Fill out the CLA YSIG Survey and help us plan our Fall Fling: https://docs.google.com//1io9Yi63ih1_bnjo2W0IQBe/viewform

Teen Services Networking Conversation #2 (COVID-19) Tuesday August 25th 1pm The State Library is offering a virtual meeting for all California library teen services staff via Zoom and facilitated by Lisa Neubert, Programming Librarian at Santa Barbara Public Library. To register please use this link: https://forms.gle/WHBJVwu8wqGezCCE7

In the event you'd like to promote this information at your library grab-and-go meal sites, or at any other type of curbside or grab-and-go services you may be offering this summer please see below. Students that receive free or reduced price meals are eligible. (In case this message clips) The newsletter below contains a link to flyers in 16 languages letting families know: The deadline to apply for P-EBT was recently extended in the State of California to July 15, 2020. Whi...le schools are closed due to COVID-19, families with students who were receiving free or reduced-price breakfast and lunch at school can get up to $365 per child for groceries this summer. You can find resources and information to share, including flyers on the San Diego Summer Meal Coalition website. See more

Thank you again for helping us spread the word about the First Partner's (rescheduled) Facebook Live Storytime, now scheduled for Tuesday, July 14, at 10am PST. The storytime is part of the First Partner's California Summer Reading Challenge which encourages families to take part in their public library's summer reading program and keep reading all summer long. The storytime will be streamed at: https://www.facebook.com/jensiebelnewsom... The hashtag is: #CASummerReading

California's First Partner, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, has launched a summer reading challenge to encourage and inspire Californians to take part in public library summer reading programs and keep reading this summer. YSIG encourages you to share the First Partner's messages and use the program hashtag, #CASummerReading, to promote her challenge and raise awareness of summer reading. Press Release Link: https://cdn.ymaws.com//su/firstpartnerjennifersiebelne.pdf

Listed below are some helpful resources and information that you can utilize and share with families this summer. Farmers to Families program: Connects local farmers to organization to distribute food boxes. Approved contractors for farmers to families food box program. If you live in the San Diego County area and interested in the Farm to Families Food Box program, you can also email: [email protected].... If serving multi-day meals here is a tip sheet developed by USDA and https://www.cde.ca.gov//nu/documents/bulkfoodsfactsheet.pdf. P-Ebt Information: Please share this information with families. Also, checkout the community flyers SD Hunger Coalition developed. https://www.sandiegohungercoalition.org/p-ebt.

Good afternoon! We have rescheduled the June 4th Lunch at the Library Network Conversation to Thursday, June 11th at 11:30 a.m. Please use this link to register for this session: https://forms.gle/5ErArwDRGCfDnoiC9... This is a chance to connect with your Lunch at the Library colleagues and an opportunity to: Receive grant information from Lunch at the Library grant staff. Share what your library is implementing for Lunch at the Library 2020 and hear what your colleagues are planning for their libraries. Let us know what assistance you need, and what questions you have. Please let us know if you have any questions. We look forward to seeing you on Thursday, June 11th at 11:30am. Take care, The Lunch at the Library team

Looking for a grant to help your libraries during these trying times? Look no farther: Want to get involved to advocate for equality? Please share this statement released by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association and reshared by the California Library Association. http://www.ala.org//Statement%20Condemning%20Increased%20V... https://www.cla-net.org/

Want to get involved to advocate for equality? Please share this statement released by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association and reshared by the California Library Association. http://www.ala.org//Statement%20Condemning%20Increased%20V https://www.cla-net.org

Looking for a neat craft this summer? Try this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B9iVVDVYH0

Dear Summer Library Community: We wanted to let you know about an upcoming statewide summer reading project and enlist your assistance! The California State Library is about to launch a statewide COVID-19 community history project. The project will: Encourage Californians to share their experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic through creative expression, e.g., through an essay, a story or letter, a poem, a song, photos or drawings, a painting, sculpture, a short film, a blog...Continue reading

For Immediate Release Tue, 05/26/2020 Contact: Macey Morales, Deputy Director...Continue reading