All the best to those conducting summer reading programs in these coming weeks! ~Cathy CSLP's 2019 Teen Video Challenge Do the teens in your library like to make videos? Encourage them to participate in the Collaborative Summer Library Program 2019 Teen Video Challenge this summer! This year's Teen Video Challenge will be a NATIONAL contest and five winners will be chosen to receive a $200 cash prize plus $50 worth of summer reading materials for their library. *New* this year, the challenge will run through the summer, so you can hold video making programs in June and July. Videos can be submitted June 1-August 2, 2019. These 60 second-or-less videos should be their interpretation of the 2019 slogan "A Universe of Stories." For more information, including complete contest rules, visit this page of the CSLP website: https://www.cslpreads.org/programs/teen-program/2019-teen-video-challenge/. Libraries and Summer Food: https://www.cslpreads.org/libraries-and-summer-food [A screenshot of text Description automatically generated] In 2018, the National Farm to School Network and Michigan State University Center for Regional Food Systems surveyed early care and education (ECE) providers across the country to better understand current initiatives, motivations and challenges in applying farm to school activities in early care and education settings. Nearly 2,030 providers serving 255,257 young children in 45 states and Washington, D.C. responded and shared with us the benefits and challenges of connecting young children to healthy, local foods, gardening, and food and agriculture education through farm to ECE. Fact Sheet: 2018 National Farm to Early Care and Education Survey<http://www.farmtoschool.org/Resources/ECESurvey18-FactSheet.pdf> * Infographic: Growing Healthy Futures for All Children<http://www.farmtoschool.org/Resources/ECESurvey18-Infographic.pdf> * THE HEALING LIBRARY is a project that assists families in their healing journey with kits available for check-out at participating libraries. Each kit features picture book(s), art and play therapy activities, conversation starters, and more to help a family through times of trauma or change. The Healing Library provides free PDF packs to librarians so they can build their own suitcase or backpack of healing tools. (They also offer the full kits for sale.) https://www.thehealinglibraryus.com/ Cathy Lancaster Youth Services Coordinator Library of Michigan 702 W. Kalamazoo St. Lansing, MI 48915 LancasterC5@michigan.gov<mailto:LancasterC5@michigan.gov> | 517-335-8129 | www.mi.gov/libraryofmichigan<http://www.mi.gov/libraryofmichigan> Follow us: Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/libraryofmichigan/> | Twitter<https://twitter.com/libraryofmich> | Instagram<https://www.instagram.com/libraryofmichigan/>
