R & R: Rest & Relaxation Through Resource & Referral! (Video)

R & R

Rest & Relaxation Through Resource & Referral! (Video)

Have you ever noticed how refreshed and energized your staff members become when you allow them to select and use new learning materials in the classroom?

Good News!  You can provide such staff experiences through your regional Extension Service Resource & Referral Center on a budget all can afford – $0!  That’s right, beautiful material is available for you and your staff members to check out for two weeks of classroom use – just like a library!

And the resources are not just available for early learning folks, but parents and grandparents you serve who are wishing to have supplemental material for summer review may also check out material!

All you have to do is register with your regional R&R just like you would if applying for a library card. (Call your R&R and ask them to email the simple form to you.) Click here to identify your R&R Center.

If you are returning completed Market Rate Surveys from facilities primarily receiving private pay tuitions in your area, take the time while you are there to look over the age appropriate lessons available in all subject areas and/or pick up a game for full-time summer school age children to enjoy while young children nap.

I am planning field trips to take one person from each of my facilities to experience R&R in Indianola on a rotating basis, but if travel is a problem for you in rural areas, call your R&R Center and see if arrangements can be made to have your  Extension Area Agent pick materials up and deliver them to your County Extension Office where you can collect them close to home. (Area Agents travel often and may be close to your regional R&R on any given day.) After two weeks of use, simply return all items to your County Extension Office and ask your Area Agent to return them for you if/when traveling by your regional R&R.

Resource & Referral Mobile Unit

If a group of providers in your community is interested in utilizing additional services, Dr. Louise Davis just may send the Resource & Referral Make & Take Bus to your town so make a request for that service as well: call 1.866.706.8827, Monday through Friday – 8 a.m. to 5 p.m! (I asked for permission to drive that “cool” bus around the block when it visited Greenwood. I explained I was licensed to drive a bus when teaching in Greenwood City Schools. My request was politely denied. 🙂 )

Dr. Davis’ office did recently hook me up for some “boots on ground” R&R.  (It is no secret that I am and have always been a strong supporter of Mississippi State Extension – efficiency and service!)  I was most impressed by the inventory and even asked who made the materials order! Excellent!  (Take a bow, Ladies!)

See the proof in my “Chevy Chase European Vacation” style  (remember the tour of the Louvre Museum) video below and meet my Indianola Extension friends, Helen Buckner and Keiva Elverton.

In the meantime, mail in those Market Rate Surveys to your regional R&R Center (from facilities primarily serving private paying families that earn too much income to qualify for Certificates such as Methodist and Baptist Churches – ask them to participate, particularly if they wisely and fairly understand costs of quality for low-income children also carries a high price tag).

 

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