Changing Systems to Realize the Rights of Children with Disabilities20240308141142
Changing Systems to Realize the Rights of Children with Disabilities
March 8, 2024advocacy, award, child, children, collaboration, conference, conferences, Count Me In, disabilities, disability, inclusion, leadership, learning, nutrition, presentation, rights, spoon blog, SPOON in the News, systems, systems change, Thought Leadership, UN, united nations, winner, zero project0 comments
Ending inequalities in nutrition will require transforming systems so that every child has the support they need to grow and thrive. SPOON’s work comb...
Child Health Task Force: SPOON Promotes Disability-inclusive Nutrition20230618020340
Child Health Task Force: SPOON Promotes Disability-inclusive Nutrition
June 18, 2023Access to Health, advocacy, ARU, ARU-CCCU, caregivers, Child Health Task Force, children, collaboration, conference, Count Me In, disabilities, disability, leadership, learning, Lesotho, LNFOD, malnutrition, nutrition, partner, partnership, policy, presentation, SDG, spoon blog, Thought Leadership, Uganda, Zambia0 comments
At the 2023 Child Health Task Force conference, Accelerating progress towards the 2030 SDGs: reducing inequities in child health, program practitioner...
Holistic Care for At-Risk Children in Vietnam20230517152134
Holistic Care for At-Risk Children in Vietnam
May 17, 2023at risk, caregivers, child development, childcare, children, collaboration, daycare, development, developmental delays, disabilities, disability, early child development, feeding, health, home-based care, home-based childcare, inclusion, learning, malnutrition, mealtime, nutrition, OneSky, partner, partnership, program, programs, spoon blog, training, Vietnam0 comments
Through a grant from AVPN, SPOON launched a new project in partnership with OneSky focused on providing holistic and inclusive care for children in ho...
SPOON Partner Profile: Meet Nikolina20230125164901
SPOON Partner Profile: Meet Nikolina
January 25, 2023advocacy, caregivers, children, collaboration, confidence, Count Me In, croatia, disabilities, disability, feeding, inclusion, learning, malnutrition, nutrition, partner, partner profile, partnership, peer trainer, perkins, trainer, training0 comments
Meet Nikolina Juric, Program Manager for Europe and Eurasia at Perkins International and SPOON Peer Trainer in Croatia. Beginning in 2022, SPOON partn...
Expanding SPOON’s Reach Through Work with USAID20230118102314
Expanding SPOON’s Reach Through Work with USAID
January 18, 2023advancing, advancing nutrition, collaboration, disabilities, disability, feeding, feeding difficulties, inclusion, leadership, learning, malnutrition, nutrition, resource, resource bank, resources, Thought Leadership, usaid0 comments
Recently, SPOON had a chance to collaborate with USAID Advancing Nutrition in an effort to improve nutritional care for children with feeding difficul...
Laying A Foundation: Training that Includes Children with Disabilities20221019122600
Laying A Foundation: Training that Includes Children with Disabilities
October 19, 2022caregivers, child development, children, collaboration, course, disabilities, disability, distance learning, early child development, foundational, inclusion, inclusive, India, kenya, learning, malnutrition, nutrition, online, partner, partnership, south africa, support, training0 comments
In July, a cohort made up of 42 professionals was the first to complete our new Disability-Inclusive Child Development Course. This course was develop...
Local Impact: Updates on Our US Program20220824112513
Local Impact: Updates on Our US Program
August 24, 2022caregivers, children, collaboration, confidence, distance learning, empowerment, feeding, foster, foster care, learning, local, malnutrition, nutrition, online course, online learning, oregon, OSU, pacific northwest, partner, partnership, program, resources, support, training, trauma, trauma-informed, trauma-informed care, United States, washington0 comments
SPOON and Oregon State University (OSU) Extension Service in Columbia County have collaborated to create the “Nourished and Thriving Children Course,”...
Confidence in Croatia20220815155614
Confidence in Croatia
August 15, 2022caregivers, children, coaching, confidence, Count Me In, croatia, disabilities, disability, facilitation, feeding, learning, malnutrition, mentorship, nutrition, positioning, support, training0 comments
With funding from the Dorothea Haus Ross Foundation, SPOON is excited to partner with Perkins International on our first-ever program in Croatia. Perk...
A Chair for Every Child20220510181348
A Chair for Every Child
May 10, 2022accessibility, assistive technology, caregivers, chair, children, disabilities, disability, feeding, learning, positioning, research, seating, spoon blog, support, testing, Uganda0 comments
Since 2019, SPOON has partnered with Utensile, an Oregon-based product development company, to create a safe and affordable seating solution for child...
An Appetite for Learning in Belarus20210329063710
An Appetite for Learning in Belarus
March 29, 2021Belarus, caregivers, children, disabilities, leadership, learning, nutrition, progress, response, training0 comments
SPOON recently began a partnership with UNICEF-Belarus through which we are training a diverse group of nearly 100 participants, including caregivers ...
