Leading for Children

Our 2025 Annual Report is here! This year’s theme—Resilience Through Connection—reflects what we’ve seen again and again across communities: when people come together with intention, trust, and care, something steady and powerful takes root.

🔗 Read the full report at https://simplebooklet.com/2025leadingforchildrenannualreport

📝 "We know we have to be resilient to get through life. And if resilience is the assignment, where do we even begin? What if we start by turning resilience upside down and considering what it is not?"

🔗 Read more of Amy White's blog at https://leadingforchildren.org/2026/05/07/how-not-to-be-resilient-a-soft-guide-for-hard-times-blog/

📅 Today at 4:00 PM ET — Join a webinar hosted by The CAYL Institute, featuring our founder, Judy Jablon!

🔗 Register for the event, "Reflect for Insight, Reset for Action!" at tinyurl.com/CAYLcatalystMay7

📬 You're Invited! Join us this Thursday for a National Conversation, as we explore:

- How we’re feeling and what we’re carrying—our internal and external context
- Who and what helps us feel grounded and regulated during challenging times
- How we can show up with care and intention to support ourselves and our communities

We invite you to bring along a friend, family member, or colleague. We're excited to learn with and from you!

🔗 Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/ouEsl_GsSBqgtfCP6LXccA

📬 Check your inbox! February's newsletter is here...

This month, Nichole shares about the life of Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune and how she exemplified a deep sense of inner belonging. This kind of belonging helps us feel grounded, find clarity about who we are, and cultivate resilience.

🔗 Read the full newsletter in your inbox or at https://mailchi.mp/leadingforchildren/looking-forward-february2026

📰 In January’s newsletter, Nichole shared a message inspired by MLK Jr. about how belonging is rooted in justice.

Belonging is not merely acceptance, but an unconditional welcoming of every human’s full, authentic self. It is what’s required for communities to thrive.

YOU belong in our community, and we’re grateful you’re here. 💛

🔗 Read the full newsletter in your inbox or at https://mailchi.mp/leadingforchildren/looking-forward-january-2026
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🎧 Listen into our latest podcast episode! Dr. Jennifer Rocks, mother and clinical psychologist, offers an accessible guide to emotional regulation. Come along as we explore the power of this skill in nurturing healthy relationships, exchange strategies for practicing it ourselves, and share ways to support children in co-regulating—creating spaces where everyone can thrive. 💛

🔗 Listen to the full episode at https://leadingforchildren.org/podcast/s2-e9-emotional-regulation-leading-from-inner-harmony/

Giving is more than hope—it is resistance, and it is love in action. Every act of generosity, every gift, every moment of care pushes back against the idea that nothing can change. ✨

🔗 Donate today at https://leadingforchildren.giv.sh/2e52