 Good morning and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I'm your host, Krista Porter, here at the Nebraska Library Commission. Encompass Live is the commission's weekly webinar series where we cover a variety of topics that may be of interest to libraries. We broadcast the show live every Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. central time, but if you're unable to join us on Wednesdays, that's fine. We do record the show every week as we are doing right now, and then it is posted on to our website in our archives for you people to watch at their convenience. Both the live show and the archive recordings are free and open to anyone to watch, so please do share with your friends, family, neighbors, colleagues, anyone you think might be interested in any of the topics of our shows. The Nebraska Library Commission is a state agency for libraries in Nebraska, and it's for all types of libraries. So we have things that run the game on our show, but we have things for publics, K-12, academics and universities and colleges, corrections facilities, museums, or archives, basically our only criteria is that it's something to do with libraries at all types of libraries, so something libraries are doing, something we think they could be doing, interesting or new resources or services that are out there, so we have a whole bunch of different things here. Sometimes we do book reviews or the demos and many training sessions of things, interviews with people, all sorts of things on the show. We do have Nebraska Library Commission staff sometimes do sessions on the show for things that we are offering here via the Nebraska Library Commission, but we also bring guest speakers, and that's what we have today. On the line with us is, and they're also here, we're the Library Commission's base here in Lincoln, and they're all, you're all in Lincoln as well, correct? In other offices, so we're all coming in here remotely on cameras from different places in the city. We have Holly Hatton-Bowers is on there, hi Holly. Hi. And then also Amy, Natalie and Linda Reddish are together in the morning. And they are all from our Nebraska Extension UNL University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and I'm just going to hand over to you guys. They're going to talk just about this awesome, great program that I'm very excited about, that they have this Read for Resilient Children. And I'm just going to hand over to you guys to explain who you are, what you do there and all about this new, this program you started up. Great, thanks so much for having us. As Christa said, I'm Amy Napoli. I'm an assistant professor of Child Youth and Family Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and also an early childhood specialist with Nebraska Extension. Hi, good morning. My name is Linda Reddish. I'm a statewide educator with Nebraska Extension. And so my focus is mostly children, families and then also early childhood. Hi, good morning. I'm Holly Hatton-Bowers and I'm an assistant professor in Child Youth and Family Studies and also an early childhood extension specialist. And my, I guess, my passion is really early childhood and promoting emotional well-being of caregivers and young children. So we're really excited to share this great project that we started, I guess, back in the spring. So it's great to be here. Thanks for having us, Christa. So today, Linda is just going to introduce our learning child team. And we'll talk a little bit about Nebraska Extension's response to the flooding. And then Holly and I will talk about the background of Read for Resilience and what the project is and how you can get involved if you're. Yeah, so University of Nebraska-Lincoln has Nebraska Extension. Nebraska Extension sort of always been known as sort of the outreach arm of the university. And so Extension's role as part of a land-grant based university is to connect in all of our counties throughout the state and provide whether that's research, education or community programs. We try to think about that as what can we do for the good of the public? And our particular focus as the learning child team then is to support children and families and then early childhood professionals. And when I say early childhood professionals, I'm meaning child care providers, family home providers, really any adult who's working with young children. And that, of course, includes parents, right? Because they're their kids first teachers. So our team of Extension educators across the state work closely with the Extension specialists. So as Holly and Amy just mentioned, both of them have appointments here at the university, but they work closely with Extension educators like myself to share their expertise and knowledge. And then we go out and deliver a lot of that programming in a very collaborative way. And so we really are, as I mentioned, you know, doing our best to provide affordable research based education, educational programs for resources. And again, this is offered throughout the state of Nebraska. And so really what our goal is is to to power, as I mentioned earlier, any adult who's caring for young children to have access and have the opportunity to be provided high quality professional development. And that's because we hope that in doing so, that will set the stage for lifelong learning, discovery and success of children. So what we're going to talk about a little bit today is the Read for Resiliency program. But before we jump right into that, we wanted to provide some context behind the history that led us to developing this program. So as we mentioned, our goal is really to support communities throughout Nebraska. And earlier this spring, Nebraska was impacted by several natural disasters, including the bomb cyclone and flooding. And so in response to the flooding and the natural disasters that have occurred in Nebraska this year, we identified that children and families would likely be experiencing some stress following these natural disasters. And so we really wanted to focus on how could we then support and help young children cope and what are the different ways that parents or educators could play a role in supporting children and youth, experiencing the emotions that they're having, but then finding a path towards healing. And so our first response actually was to develop a website, which was this disaster website. And so we created the website so that extension could start to have a platform for what and how you could initially start immediately following the flooding. And so we formulated our website around sort of three key areas in the immediate response that we noticed folks were having. So one was family stress. And so we know that everyone experienced stress at some point in your life. But ongoing chronic stress and then stress related, particularly to natural disasters can compromise your health and well-being. And so this sub page has several resources that we have, including a list of common signs of chronic stress. And individuals then can look at that and say, oh, I'm noticing someone that I know is experiencing these symptoms and signs of chronic stress. And then we have a list of resources and hotlines that you can refer someone to. The resources are both national and Nebraska specific. So we would encourage you to check those out. Again, the goal in making this site was to identify resources that immediately could get into the hands of those caring for young children. Then the next part, as we mentioned, our team also supports early childhood professionals. So early childhood professionals have a really unique role. In planning what to do before, during and after an emergency event or a natural disaster. And so this website has resources specific to emergency preparedness and educators roles in supporting young children during emergencies. So really interesting kind of note. We know that nearly 80 percent of young children from birth to age five, according to the Buffett Early Childhood Institute, are in some form of paid care today. And so it was really critical then that we identified these resources for childcare programs and after school program kids, knowing that young children are often in these settings for a good chunk of their day. And so then finally, we wanted to talk about helping children cope and we'll shift the majority of our conversation around really this particular topic. So as we mentioned, we wanted to identify and promote ways that children could be supported in response to a natural disaster and the stress that they might be feeling. And knowing that they were having stress, that would then lead to them experiencing a variety of different emotions. And that it was really important to remember that all adults play a really important role in helping young children find ways to experience, manage and then cope with the emotions that they are experiencing. And so on this link, we have several resources from birth through age 18 that are available so that if you're interested in what are some of the immediate strategies that I could start to implement or maybe I'm not 100 percent aware of what I should be looking for or what are some common signs or symptoms that is all available on this particular subpage. And so as we thought about helping children to cope, this led us then to saying, OK, now, how do how do we find ways to help young children emotionally cope? And in particular, you know, the the effectiveness of different strategies. And that's how we landed now on need for resilience. So Dr. Halie Hunt-Bowers is going to talk a little bit here about how you can use children's literature to help young children heal and kind of think about emotional development in the context of a natural disaster. OK, thank you, Linda. So I think as Linda said, she gave a great, sorry, getting over a cop, a great description of how children and their caregivers, so either a parent or even a child care provider, can be a source of support to help children during a natural disaster, which can be very stressful and it also can be possibly traumatic, right? So if you think of a child who may be displaced or have to move from their home because it's flooded, they don't have their familiar items with them, right? And so we wanted to come up with a way they're there. I will say our website is an amazing resource for understanding how children will respond in different ways to these types of natural disasters and events. But it's also I want to also say that Sesame Street has some great resources as well in terms of how to talk to children about even and really specific to natural disasters. So I just want to share that as a resource. So what we wanted to do was not duplicate efforts with some resources that were out there, but create a unique opportunity to really understand to provide a support to caregivers in terms of how can you help children have some more emotional understanding and learn some strategies that may help them cope with whatever their experience may be. And so this slide is purposely put here to show you that a child may experience the same event. So maybe it's they can't return to their child care provider because they need to have their home cleaned out. And so you can think about how that might create stress for the family, how that might put stress on the child if they're used, right? The young children in particular really like predictability. And so taking away that safety and that predictability can feel kind of scary. So you can see here, a child may respond in different ways. So they might want to have a need of physically covering up to feel safe because they're worried and scared. So that particular child feels worried and scared because they don't have the child care provider that they used to be with. And they're experiencing kind of that stress of the climate of the home as well. So that child may say, I need to build a fort. That's my need right now because I have worry and I scared. Another child may feel feelings of angry, right? Just as adults, we experience events, maybe similar events, but we respond in different ways. And so this child is saying, I really want to hit a pillow and roar like a dinosaur, right? That's going to be their strategy to kind of release that anger. For another child, it might be feeling really overwhelmed and so you might help them with a counting exercise. And then another child may feel sad and really need that physical comfort. So this is to illustrate, we put this here because this is how we're thinking about the books that we're going to go into more detail about later, Amy will talk about, is that we knew that children would be responding to these events with different reactions and different feelings. And so having books really helped them have more understanding emotionally of what could be going on through the characters. So now I'm going to move to the next slide. That's okay. So right here is read for resilience and really supporting young children's coping with story books. So research shows that children's literature in an interactive way. So that means that I'm not simply picking up the book and reading it, which has a lot of great benefits as well, but I'm going to actually pick up the book and I'm going to say, we're going to talk today about a terrible thing that happened. And I'm going to go through and set it up in terms of what may be happening through the story. I might even flip through and show the pictures to the children before I start reading the actual words if it has words in the book. And I might even flip over to the back and the front, right? So I'm really getting them engaged in the book. I'm showing them kind of setting it up on what we're going to learn about and talk about. So I start getting you kind of primed to this is a story about someone who's worried. And so we're going to think about that, right? We're going to think about our feelings around being worried and looking at some of the strategies that are used. So that's how this is a storybook activity and how we will share more about how we scaffold that. So before we do that, we thought, I don't know if there's a lot of attendees. So we can even open it up if you want to and just share and think about your own experiences with reading. So we have some questions that we came up with. What are some reading experiences you have had that influence how you interact in the world? And you can put that in the chat or if you want to raise your hand, just hear some responses. Yeah, you should be able to go ahead and just type into the question section of your interface. Or if you want to use your microphone, if you have one available that's working, you can raise your hand and I'll unmute you. So this would be experiences like them personally, not necessarily with your own personal experience. And another question is what are ways that reading stories has impacted your learning and the way you understand feelings and how did early story book reading impact your desire to read books today? And do you have any favorites growing up as a child? So really, we just want to think about your own personal experience with how you use books to how it may have influenced your understanding of feelings and coping. So if people are typing, unfortunately, I can't see like, yes, sometimes when you're texting or chatting to someone, you can see they're working on something. I'm not sure until they finish typing in. So please, someone go ahead and share about any of these questions. I can say, for myself, I don't know. Let's try to think about the first two questions there. Readings that have influenced how I interact in the world. I don't know if I remember anything specifically, but maybe subconsciously or those kind of situations that we're put into as a child would likely, we're going to talk about this and this is the book we're going to read and then you don't always necessarily remember that specific event because I mean, I've been reading since I was as long as we could walk. My dad was taking us to the public library every Saturday. I remember that. So we were always attending things there. And I was just thinking like, my anniversary in Gables was a huge influence. My dad bought me the books and so we read it together because he knew I was really fascinated with it. And so asking questions and just thinking about being resilient in different ways and kind of putting yourself out there to develop, you know, like being resilient, what does that mean and doing things that are really your passionate about, right? In terms of your professional motivation. So it could be just kind of, you think about books might help you with a character that you relate to and might have influenced your thinking. I don't know, Linda and Amy, if you have any. The first thing that I thought about with this was the Velveteen Rabbit and how like when I read it, like just feelings of empathy and kind of the emotions that are tied to that book and all of the very strong emotions that I felt as a child and how I always thought about that and relating to other people in the world even in animal objects, things like that. Yeah, I think some of the way reading stories has impacted my learning and the way that I learned to understand feelings has really been shown now as a parent. And so now when I read books and I read stories, it's impacted the way that I even think about how children process emotions. So for example, when we would read my many colored days and we would talk about how different colors and how I would feel on different days and when I'm pink, I just can't think. It makes me so happy. And so that's shifted then to how I think about understanding feelings and also how kids like a color can spark an emotion for a child or a picture can spark an emotion for a child. And in what ways then do I as an adult take an information and how does that impact how then I understand my own feelings? In your child's feelings. In my child's feelings. As far as the third question, the sort of book impacting your desire to read books and any favorites. My most, once I remember most or once when I was older, I guess. I mean, I have lots of, ones that stick in my mind are things like Watership Down and Chronicles of Narnia when I was reading, when I was like a teenager or middle school. There was the Watership Down is my favorite book, I think. And I always remember the ending of that. And I think because I hope people have already death at the end of it. And it was something that I always go back to when I'm thinking about that, that how to deal with if someone has passed away, that it's okay, that it's not the end of everything. It's still a different kind of, other things will go on. That's something that I always think about from that book. Thanks for sharing that. I'm now on that one to my list. It's for older, it's not a kid's book, but it does have, yeah, I always think about that part of it. It makes me cry every time I read it. I reread it all the time, watching the old movie, the new TV show that was on, yeah. But it's a good thing to deal with the feelings about it, yeah. Yeah, and that really helps us sort of think about transitioning then a little bit, right? Cause we're talking about how do you pause and think about your experience? And then your example talks about how you can use storybook then to cope with your feelings, right? So books can be a great way to just have some understanding, especially if you go to the next slide, Amy, I don't see any other comments, but anyway, just some things to think about, right? Like how we as adults also use books sometimes, even in fictional stories to think about maybe how we're feeling and ways that we might also have strategies as well. So that's really what we are doing with Read for Resilience. So this is a great article. I could even share the link to it. It just came out, Kozak, and I don't know really, I don't know how to say the last person, but Ritika 2019 has a great overview about how storybooks can offer experiences for children to learn and think about and reflect on events and their feelings. And so a lot of this research has been done with K through 12, but there's even research starting to become more, there's becoming more research in the pre-K. So even in preschoolers, and we know with babies too, right? It's a great way to just start even you as an adult and a caregiver to relate to children in youth language around emotions. So that really develops that understanding and then it can really help children to think about, oh, this character, so this is the idea of identification, right, of I'm identifying with this character and maybe their situation, and I can see how they might have used some different ways of coping, which might be that I'm gonna reach out to my parent and I'm gonna share that I'm sad or maybe I'm gonna use a stuffy and I'm gonna hold that stuffy as a comfort item just as the character did in the book. So the books that we chose, I share this because we were really intentional in choosing books that would have this element of catharsis. So that story character was dealing with situations and the students are learning about empathy towards whatever the situation may be in the characters and then they can experience the process through the book. So if you know that children during a natural disaster are scared or they might have feelings of separation, then you can think about a book that may help with that. So when we chose our books, we were really thinking about how are these elements of involvement, identifying, having that process of the catharsis, the insight, so thinking about the difficult events and then how they were responding to it. And then this idea of universalization, which is that I'm not alone and these are experiences that other characters and other people may be experiencing. So our books were really chosen around age appropriately, around these ideas to have these elements. And we're continuing to add to them too, so in some other ways. So that we might have children who are angry, we might have some that are worried, we might have some children who are sad. And so the books hopefully touch on these different feelings and thoughts to help them learn strategies for coping. So after selecting the book, it can be really helpful to extend learning with questions and activities. And that's really where the storybook reading guides come in and Amy's gonna talk more about how we develop those and what they look like. And then there's some great activities you can see where Linda did an activity with children and it's really great to see how they were processing their feelings after reading the book. Thanks. So currently the Read for Resilience program is housed online. We have nine storybooks that we've selected and then two more that are in progress and we're working all the time to identify more and develop additional storybooks and storybook guides to go with them. So these nine storybooks that we've selected, as Holly said, they're kind of intentional, not kind of, they are intentional we've intentionally selected them to be kind of general around themes of resilience, coping and kind of involving children in identifying and exploring their emotions. So three examples of the books that we have for the program are up there. They're designed to be kind of for a broad range of maturity for children's ages, experiences and kind of where they are. So the way I feel is kind of an example of more basic one for younger children just working on identifying their emotions, naming them and learning different ways to talk about them. And then the other example, a terrible thing happened that's up there is kind of more specific to something that happened and engaging maybe older and more mature children and talking about that experience that they had. So currently the books are available for free for caregivers who have children in Nebraska that were affected by the natural disasters this year. And so caregivers, that means parents or childcare providers. We've also had some school psychologists sign up for the program, which is awesome because we know that means that the program is getting up to more children. But you can go online to our website and if you meet these criteria as a caregiver in Nebraska of a child who was affected by the flooding or blizzards, you can apply to select five of the books that will be mailed to you at no cost. But the storybook guides that we've developed to go along with the books are available online for anybody. So anybody can go on the website, which we'll share later, how to access, excuse me, the website. Anyone can go on there and access the storybook guides. So if these are books that are available to you in your library to check out, then you can also access them that way if you're not in Nebraska or weren't affected. And we select right now the flooding that was in many states around us. Yes, and we've been partnering with some folks in South Dakota. We've had interest from Iowa also. So there are people in those states and other states around us that we can give information to you if you're not in Nebraska about accessing the resources at no cost. But like I said, libraries are always a great place to go, see if your librarian has these books, and then you can use the storybook guides to go along with them. So this is an example of one of the storybook guides. We have one available for all nine of the books that we have. And as Holly and I mentioned, we're working to develop more of them to are in progress right now. So all of the storybook guides have questions or prompts that go along with a specific story. So this is an example of the way I feel. So kind of talking about the emotions and exploring them more. And then they also have suggested activities to go along with them. So the next piece is an example of one of the activities. So these guides are available as trifolds. You can download, print them. They'll be available in some of the libraries soon. Or you can look at them like on an iPad or tablet to go along. So this particular activity in this book, a terrible thing happened. One of the ways that the adult is helping the child sherman cope with his experience is by drawing his feelings and talking about his anger and fear that he has. So as Holly mentioned, Linda brought this activity to some children in her area. And this is an example of one of the illustrations, one of the pictures that a child drew. And the child said, these are all of my feelings. I filled the whole paper with my feelings. The next one, I love this example because the child provides a specific strategy that they use. So this is a picture of me looking at elephants at the zoo. They're big and sometimes they're scary and I hold my mom's hand and then I feel better. So this is a great opportunity to elaborate with children on different coping mechanisms, different strategies that they can use. And the same with the next one, which I love because it's kind of a silly example. You never know what you get when you're working with children. So this is me feeling sad because the bananas are, we're laughing at me and I feel sad when bananas laugh at me and it makes me feel like throwing things. So this is an opportunity to talk about different strategies of, oh, when you feel sad or angry, you might wanna throw things. What are some other ways that we can think about processing our feelings? What are other things that we can do when we feel sad or angry? And to the storybook. The banana is laughing. That's the problem of the tone. Yes, yes. I wish I was there working with children because like I said, you never know what is gonna come up or what you get. But even these kind of strange or silly situations that pop up are good opportunities to talk about strategies and ways to promote resilience. And all of the storybook guides have different activities. Some of them are mindfulness activities to practice breathing exercises as a way of coping. One of the ones Holly pointed out earlier was about counting. And you could count your breath, things like that. The different strategies are available in the storybook guides to kind of go with the different things that children feel in the different ways that they have of coping. So the next step for the Read for Resilience project is bringing this program to the library. So we have these books that are available that caregivers can apply for, but we're also expanding to make it something that caregivers can attend with their children and we could kind of talk more about these ideas. So we're partnering currently with local libraries and we're working all the time to get this brought throughout the state. So these programs can be available to the children who are really impacted by the flooding. So the design of the program is that caregivers bring their children in. Caregivers observe, read aloud with the children, kind of learn some strategies for reading, asking questions, engaging children, and then also a piece about learning about social-emotional development. So children, we know experience all of the things that adults experience, but they might not have the strategies or the tools to talk about their feelings the same way that we do or to explain why they're doing something that they're doing. So this piece really focuses on helping adults understand children's emotions and different ways that they make hope. After observing the storybook reading, caregivers go learn about that piece and then children participate in activities to promote their resilience or talk about feelings, things like that. So one example is making worry stones with children kind of talking about how that can be a good strategy for working through their emotions. And that picture you can see is one of the displays that will be going up in the local libraries. We're working to partner with librarians throughout the state so that this is something that can be available in all of the libraries. So the books that we've identified will be available to check out in our local Lincoln libraries. And if there are librarians listening, please reach out. Yeah, I was gonna say, if it had been, I'd seen that just recently, and probably saw we were doing the show that Lincoln City Libraries had shared about the program. So they have this in some of their locations already. So November 2nd, we will be piloting our first program with the libraries in Lincoln. And then around that time, also these displays will be available in the nine libraries throughout our area. So they will have each of the books available to check out information on how caregivers can also access them if they wanna receive copies of the books and then the storybook guides will be printed and available when the books are checked out. But as I mentioned, they're always available online as well. So anyone can access those too. Amy, can I just add something? So I think the event is really great because it's an opportunity for, it could be mainly it could be parents or whoever the primary caregiver is. So grandparents whoever wants to come with their child. And so it'll be an education around just what is socio-emotional development look like with young children? What are some things that might be helpful in terms of strategies? So they're also gonna get that information along with seeing how to do storybook reading and why that can be helpful for children as well. And then as Amy said, you'll get an activity. So I think it's just, it's a great opportunity to come and learn some information but also interact with other caregivers who would be there as well. And I think teachers are welcome to come as well. So if you want to come and observe the process, we welcome them to attend the event. And these will be available at no cost also, which is great. So if anybody has questions, whoops. We'd be happy to take them now. And then we also will share information on how to get in touch with us, how to access our website for more information on Read for Resilience or more resources that Linda talked about for helping with general reading. All right, anybody have any questions about what Amy and Holly and Linda have shared today? Any questions you have about the program? Any thoughts about having it in your libraries? I know we have people from a bunch of different libraries here on the show this morning. Everyone from Nebraska, just so you guys know. At the moment, all Nebraska people. I do know that we do get a lot of people from everywhere, watch our recordings afterwards. So it's good to have that information in here in the recording for later in the archive for anyone who comes across it from outside of the state. So they'll have all that info. Thank you. As Linda mentioned earlier, that we have learning child educators throughout the state. So if you're already partnering with some educators in your area, then you can reach out to them and they can provide information on how to access the program or how to get the program in your area. But that is how where, although Holly and I are housed in Lincoln and Linda's closer to Omaha, we do have resources available to get this program throughout the state. So we're all about that. Nebraska Extension is all across the state. Now is there, this is a question, is other states have the similar thing their own extension offices? Because you said you've been in talking with other people like South Dakota and Iowa. Is it the same group extension or is it other types of organizations or? Both. So extension is something that's provided from land-grade universities. There's one in every state. So for South Dakota, we're partnering with extension in South Dakota. Iowa, it's the program that's shown interest in we're partnering with is not directly related through extension, but connects and does a lot of work with extension. So we're everywhere. And we are working on getting this program out. So children who were impacted, not only by flooding. I mean, it started as a program specifically for natural disaster, but the books are broad enough that children who have been through any stressful event can benefit from them. Yeah, so for example, my county and home library where I go to is in Bellevue, right? So Bellevue is a pretty traditional military town. So our books are also a way too so that if parents are deploying or they're on separation for a few weeks, doing training or things like that, these books would certainly be appropriate for helping children to sort of cope with some of the feelings when it comes to separation from their primary caregiver. So those stories that would be super appropriate. And as we mentioned, we're still identifying other books because what really started was in a real genuine response to what we were seeing in our communities. We're now hearing, well, this has been really helpful. Do you also have a resource for this one? Do you also have a resource for this? Yeah. So we're continuing to think about then broadly, as Holly mentioned, how can we promote resiliency with young children using effective literature? Yeah. And that's a good tip that I just think about you mentioned being by the military, by the bases, that's maybe something for other people in other states to reach out to. Is there someone in, if you are near a military base of some sort, reach out to them and see if they do have this kind of a need with the families and connect with them as a partnership that can then use these, the read for resilience guides and books and everything to help those kids. They may not even know if that's something that they should be dealing with, have to deal with, have a problem with that. We know from the libraries because of this that we can now reach out to them as a place that might need our help. Yeah. Yep, and extension educators are well connected. So if you're not sure where to start, you can reach out to our team and we'll put you in contact with someone in your area or someone close to your area who can help. I think this is a good timing too. I mean, we had the flooding throughout the Midwest and the country earlier this year, but myself being well in Nebraska, of course, but also being originally from off state New York, winter is coming, winter weather and that can be devastating storms and things are just getting worse due to climate change. So the Nor'easters that would come up the coast and just knock out our power and bury us in like two to three feet of snow for three days. And I remember living through that as a child and it's, you know, to a child you think it's, oh, it's fun because, you know, we're gonna go out and play in the snow all day, but it's also stressful because there's the hours out, there's no heat, there's no light. Why is mom and dad worried about things? You know, why are they not going to work or are they going to work out in this feet and feet of snow? So that season coming up, I think this would be something very useful in those areas as well. Something else you just made me think of, I think that the story about reading guides, the Read for resilience project can be helpful for, is it also can help you as the caregiver be thinking about your own emotions, you know, and feelings and that. So even though they're children's books, they're great ways. Like I think, Linda, you brought up the one of color, right? So what, there's another one that we have, which is what color do you feel today? Right? And so it's like, I might feel blue, I might feel pink, I might feel all gray, blue and pink. So it's kind of a way to have common language and also for you to think about and process your own feelings with while you're reading the book with children too. So it's really a parallel process that way. With adults, we've got so many other things we're trying to just deal with in these disaster situations. Having something simpler to read to help me get through it emotionally might be easier than an article in a medical journal or in a newspaper that's as long and in-depth thing about how to take care of yourself. You know what, just give me something simple. I already have all these other things I'm dealing with that are huge. Something quick and simple that will just calm me down might be the way to go, yeah. Yeah, and you can even draw, like the picture, right? You can draw, what are my worries while your child's drawing their worries or as a childcare provider. I'll draw my worries too. So it's really great when you can do the activities with. Yeah, journaling, writing in a diary, the artistic things that get the emotions out, absolutely. All right, so does anybody have any other questions? Anything else they wanna ask for suggestions or thoughts on this? I'm typing in the question. You guys wanna show off the website now? You say you're gonna do that. So our email for REFER resilience is there and then from the child.unl.edu website you can access resources for multiple things but that's the easiest way also to connect to the REFER resilience website. Do you wanna show that or you can show that on your screen if you want me to or? Yeah. If you'd like to pull it up, Krista, go right ahead. Okay, I can switch over to mine. Because I do have here. Yeah, I'm gonna pull presenter control to my screen and here is, all right. So this is the session page for today's show where you see we do have links to the website, the REFER resilience program itself but then the specific what you have there, child.unl.edu. And then you'll see reading as one of the main tabs there. So as long as you get to this page you'll be able to find it. So both of the resources that we shared today the main disaster response website, right? And resources in general. And then if you scroll down a little bit you'll see the other one reading I'm interested in storybooks right there. So either as long as you make it to child.unl.edu it will get you to either of the resources that we talked about today. And then here's the different each of the books that you guys have been working with so far. And then up here it had the storybook guides that you're talking about. So you can download the storybook guides and then there's another option also to request the books. Okay, and you just collect some information about what there's just a few quick questions to fill in, not too bad, yeah. Yep. And then after that information it takes you right to the link to download the guides. We're just trying to get a sense of how people are using the books whether they're finding them helpful ways that we can improve the program. And then this is you said in Nebraska that's what the request books would be? Yes. So there's a question asking about if you were affected by the natural disasters what county in Nebraska you live in, things like that. And then from there you can select five of the books and usually within about two, three weeks they're delivered to your door. Do you get multiple copies or just one of each? One copy up to five of the books. And some of these maybe things you may already have in your library's collection just because anyways, yeah. Wemmerly worried is a popular one. L-B-B's too. Yeah. And some of the other ones are a little bit not, I guess, common to have, so like that will trouble, but it's a fun book. So we, like they said, if you want that book then you fill out the application and you can have it directly down to you. This is a good way too, if it's a book you've not purchased for your library yet this is a way to at least be able to take a look at it and see is it something you might want more copies of potentially. If it is very useful to some of your children or families. Great. We have two more that we'll be adding, so. Yeah, thank you. Anything else you want me to show on the website to people while we're here? I think that's our main focus of that read for resilience and then the disaster response page also is the one that led to it. That is where you're talking about the beginning. Yeah, I saw that here the helping children cope, the family stress section. Yeah, other emergency preparedness. Yeah, that's where all this is. Yeah. All right. So does anybody have any last minute questions you want to ask? Anything else you want to ask or anything you want to share about if you may be using this in your library? Type it in the question section. This was great. I'm so glad you guys contacted me about putting this on the show because it's been a, you know, children dealing with disasters, trauma is always an issue, but especially with what's been going on in the Midwest this year, it's been a little extreme over the top, more than usual for everyone to deal with. Yeah, we're hoping that this is a resource to help children and adults connect and kind of process together. I think it'll be very helpful, yeah. And we're going to share it out when we get our recordings and everything ready there for everybody to learn more about it. All right, doesn't look like anybody has any desperate last minute questions they want to ask. That's fine. So I think we'll officially wrap it up for today. Thank you so much, Amy and Linda and Holly for being with us here today. We are recording the show, so that we're wrapping up for today and I'm going to get back to her, so there we go. So we're recording and the recording will be available on our main Encompass Live page here. So far in the world, you can Google Encompass Live, the name of the show and nothing else is called that yet on the internet. Nobody else is allowed to use this name. If you bring it, yeah, search for it, you'll find our website and our archives. This is our upcoming shows, but right underneath all of our list of upcoming shows is the link to our archives. These are in most recent ones at the top of the list, so this is the one from last week. The recording will be, as I said earlier, it will be posted to the Library Commission's YouTube channel and then I think you guys we're going to send me your slides too to add. Yeah, we'll have a link to this slide as well if you want to look at them too. It will be based on this and it will also have a link to the website because that's part of the session description for today's show. When it is and the recording is available here and ready, I will send an email out to everyone who attended today and everyone who registered for today's show. We also push it out on our various social media. We have Twitter that we use for our Encompass Live. We have a Facebook page, so we'll put it all out there as well. And while I'm showing you the archives here, I'll show you, we do have a search feature here where you can search through our previous shows where you can search the entire archives or the most recent 12 months only if you want to. This is because Encompass Live has been around for about 10 years. Our first show was January 2009, so we have the full history of the show here. This is a very, very long page. We're back to the very beginning. So we did put in a search feature so you can narrow down search for a specific topic or also just search for something recent if you want really up-to-date information. Because this does have our full archive in here, you will find old shows that maybe are outdated and the product or service doesn't exist anymore or has changed since we talked about it. Links might be broken or you're gonna have to find a new one. But just pay attention to the date. Everything has a date of when it was originally broadcast. So if it is an old one, just make sure you realize that you're watching something older. Some of our shows are stand the test of time, no problems reading books, lists of books to read, kids books, team books, whatever, but sometimes certain things may become outdated. So just pay attention when you are watching a show and doing your searches on here. We are librarians, we are a library so we do archive and historical things. We'll always keep adding to this as long as we've got somewhere to host all of this. So as I said, we do have a Facebook page. I've got that open up over here. So if you are a big Facebook user, you can like us on Facebook. We post reminders about shows and announcements of things going on with Encompass Live. Here's your reminder to log into today's show. If we scroll down here, previous recording being available from last week. So two, three times a week, not too busy on the page. So if you do like to use Facebook, give us a like over there or follow our hashtag on Twitter and comp live or abbreviation there. So that will wrap it up for today's show. Thank you everyone for attending. Thank you guys for being here with me this morning. And I hope you enjoyed this next week when our topic is pretty sweet tech, the power of the internet. Pretty sweet tech is our monthly show being done by Amanda Sweet, our technology innovation librarian here at the Nebraska Library Commission. We started this up a few months ago. So now she's on to a regular schedule where the last Wednesday of every month will be her pretty sweet tech show on different topics each time. And this one next week is the power of the internet, use it wisely. So you can learn all about how you can be a good user of the internet. So please do sign up and join us for that show or any of our other upcoming shows coming up. We have all the rest of the year is booked. I'm still waiting on a couple of descriptions for the sessions in December, but the dates are filled in. So keep an eye on that to see what we actually have coming up as our specific shows. Oh, thank you everybody for being here. I hope we'll see you on a future episode of Encompass Live. Bye bye. Thank you.