The Oregon Department of Human Services (ODHS) received approval from the federal government to provide additional food benefits for young children whose families received Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits between September 2021 and May 2022. These additional food benefits will provide approximately $46 million in additional food assistance for 80,000 young children in Oregon. The additional food benefits will be issued to families’ existing EBT cards in Fall 2022, with the exact dates yet to be determined.

Resources and information for wildfire weather events from the Oregon Department of Emergency Management.

The Early Learning Division is developing a new Early Childhood Suspension and Expulsion Prevention Program (Program), as called for by House Bill 2166. September 1, 2022, the proposed rule language for the Program was posted for public comment. It is scheduled for review and adoption by the Early Learning Council at their meeting on Wednesday, September 28.

The Preschool Promise Notice of Intent to Award list was published today, August 30 on the Early Learning Division website: https://oregonearlylearning.com/preschool-promise.

The Early Learning Hub is restarting our Data & Evaluation workgroup in October via Zoom. If you would like to participate in this workgroup, please let us know when you are most available by taking this brief poll.

Free Health Care Interpreter Training offered by IRCO and LBHEA, sponsored by OHA's Office of Equity and Inclusion. Online training is on Tuesdays & Fridays 9am - 1pm from 9/30/22-11/22/22.

Oregon Health Authority (OHA) is confirming the state’s first pediatric case of monkeypox virus (hMPXV). OHA and county public health officials say the case is linked to an adult monkeypox infection that was confirmed last month. “We have a known connection to a previously diagnosed case,” said Dean Sidelinger, M.D., health officer and state epidemiologist at OHA. “This child did not get the virus at school, child care or another community setting.”

The Early Learning Hub of Linn, Benton & Lincoln Counties would like to help you Read for the Record this year. We will send you this year’s book - Nigel and the Moon by Antwan Eady and illustrated by Gracey Zhang - to read to your class or care group. Book orders have begun. If you would like to participate this fall, please contact us now.

The Soroptimist Live Your Dream Award is an opportunity for a woman who is the primary financial support for their family, needs financial assistance, is enrolled in or has been accepted to a vocational/skills training program or an undergraduate degree program, and is a resident of Linn County.

Our Children Oregon released the 29th annual Oregon KIDS COUNT Data Cards featuring state and county-level data, complementing the simultaneous release of the 2022 KIDS COUNT Data Book, a 50-state report on how children and families are faring. Both these resources shed light on the health, economic, education, community, and environmental challenges impacting children in Oregon.