Max’s Story: Impact in Oregon20250107101502
Max’s Story: Impact in Oregon
Seventy percent of the over 11,000 children in Oregon foster care enter the system due to abuse or neglect. Many of these children come from household...
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...
Expanding our Impact in Uganda20230331145829
Expanding our Impact in Uganda
March 31, 2023advocacy, ARU, care, care reform, caregiver, caregivers, child, children, community, Count Me In, disabilities, disability, families, family, family care, feeding, impact, Master Trainer, nutrition, partner, partnership, programs, support, training, Uganda0 comments
SPOON has been working in Uganda since 2016 in partnership with the Association of Religious through their Catholic Care for Children Uganda (ARU-CCCU...
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...
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...
Detecting Disability Early in Lesotho20220615172623
Detecting Disability Early in Lesotho
SPOON's Nutrition Scientist, Zeina Makhoul, just returned from her first trip to mountainous Lesotho–the world’s largest enclave country–where we are ...
One Year Later: The Impact of COVID-19 on Child Nutrition20210421062520
One Year Later: The Impact of COVID-19 on Child Nutrition
April 21, 2021advocacy, Belarus, COVID, disabilities, Haiti, research, resources, training, UNICEF, Zambia0 comments
As we mark more than one year since COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic, SPOON is reflecting on the impact of the pandemic for children with disab...
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 ...
