SPOON Wins Zero Project Award for Advocating for People with Disabilities20231205142326
SPOON Wins Zero Project Award for Advocating for People with Disabilities
December 5, 20232024, advocacy, award, children, conference, Count Me In, disabilities, disability, education, inclusion, inclusive, inclusive education, innovation, innovative, leadership, malnutrition, nutrition, policies, policy, project, rights, Thought Leadership, zero, zero project0 comments
SPOON is thrilled to announce that we are a recipient of the 2024 Zero Project Award.The Zero Project is an initiative that finds and shares solutions...
Improving Support for Children with Disabilities with Count Me In+20230618025120
Improving Support for Children with Disabilities with Count Me In+
June 18, 2023advocacy, app, caregivers, children, Count Me In, digital health app, disabilities, disability, families, feeding, malnutrition, nutrition, technology0 comments
SPOON is redesigning our digital health app, Count Me In. This new version, called Count Me In+, will allow SPOON to improve our support for children ...
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...
The Needs of 250 Million Children are Not ‘Niche’20220712164317
The Needs of 250 Million Children are Not ‘Niche’
July 12, 2022advocacy, alternative care, children, COVID, disabilities, disability, malnutrition, nutrition, policy, research, residential care0 comments
SPOON serves two groups of children who face some of the highest rates of malnutrition: children with disabilities and children without family care (i...
