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Early Childhood Programming & Staff Professional Development

​Trainings Suited for: Early Childhood Care Providers, Teachers, Home Visitors, Family Service staff, Content-Area Leads, Early Childhood Program Supervisors and Managers, and Program Directors

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Level of Content: Beginner level for new staff to advance level for seasoned early childhood program staff.

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Service Delivery: On-site or virtual consultation, program review and recommendations, professional development support, targeted training and support for implementation of content into practice.

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Early Head Start Program

Session Content:

  • Understand how the Head Start Program Performance Standards guide quality early childhood programming

  • Understand the basic structure and organization of an Early Head Start Program

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Duration: 2+ hours

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Nursery School

Collaborating and Co-Teaching   in Group Care

Session Content:

  • Components of Co-Teaching / Team Teaching

  • Benefit of Working as a Team

  • Classroom Management

  • Making the Most of the Partnership

  • Tips for Working Together

 

​​Duration: 3+ hours

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Staff Wellness

Session Content:

  • Identify components of staff wellness

  • Articulate why staff wellness is important

  • Practical tips to improve personal wellness

  • Practical tips to improve wellness in programs

  • Understand and Learn to manage stress & Depression

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Duration: 1 - 4 hours

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Coaching

Session Content: 

  • Explore benefits of coaching

  • Explore coaching options and formats

  • Understand the various components to the different coaching formats

  • Considerations for implementing coaching into your early childhood program

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Duration: 2 - 10 hours

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Applying

Practice-Based Coaching

Session Content: 

  • Explore the key elements and components of Practice-Based Coaching

  • Discuss current coaching activities in relation to Practice-Based Coaching

  • Theory of Change

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Duration: 2 - 10 hours

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Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)

Session Content:

  • Introduction to Trauma-Informed Care

  • Brain Architecture

  • Brain Building Through Play

  • The Parent-Child Relationship as a Space for Healing

  • Parent Talk​

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Duration: 1 1/2 - 5 hours

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Introduction to a Culture of Safety

Session Content:

•Define and identify characteristics of a culture of safety

•Understand how a culture of safety prevents injuries and promotes child well being

•Describe the 10 actions for a culture of safety

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Duration: 1 1/2 - 5 hours

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Implementing a Culture of Safety

Session Content:

•Explore and discuss strategies to establish, train, implement, and enforce a culture of safety

•Learn ways to solve safety problems using root cause analysis

•Discuss how management systems strengthen and support a culture of safety

•Explore the role of program leadership in establishing and enhancing a culture of safety

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Duration: 1 1/2 - 5 hours

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Active Supervision

Session Content:

•Explore adult supervision as the most effective way to keep children safe and prevent injuries

•Explore the six active supervision strategies

•Identify ways to plan for, implement, and monitor active supervision strategies

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Duration: 1 1/2 - 5 hours

Infant & Toddler Development & Care

Understand the essence of child development for children newborn to age 3, how to provide developmentally appropriate responsive care for young children in group care to support and maximize young children’s development.

 

Learn how to effectively design and implement high-quality early childhood group care services and achieve desired outcomes.

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  • Trainings Suited for: Early Childhood Care Providers, Teachers, Home Visitors, Content-Area Leads, Early Childhood Program Supervisors and Managers, and Program Directors

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  • Level of Content: Beginner level for new staff to advance level for seasoned program staff.

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  • Service Delivery: Consultation, program review and recommendations, professional development support, targeted training and support for implementation of content into practice. ​

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The Growing Brain Curriculum

Session Content:

  • The Basics

  • The Factors Affecting Brain Growth and Development​

  • Communication and Language Development

  • Cognition and Executive Function

  • Social-Emotional Development

  • Understanding Behavior

  • Everyday Play

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Duration: 3 - 21 hours

Baby Learning to Walk

School Readiness for Infants & Toddlers

Session Content: 

  • Overview of School Readiness

  • Attachment 

  • Developmental Domains

  • Individualization​

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Duration: 1 1/2 - 6 hours

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Responsive Caregiving

Session Content

  • Define and understand responsive caregiving.

  • Understand how responsive caregiving impacts children’s learning and development

  • Identify responsive caregiving strategies​

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Duration: 1 -2 hours

Happy Baby

Attachment Theory & Brain Research

Session Content: 

  • Understand brain areas and functions

  • Develop strategies to use with families to promote healthy brain development

  • Identify different types of stress and associated impact on child and adult outcomes

  • Explore ways responsive relationships support early brain development

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Duration: 1 - 2 hours

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Transitions

Session Content: 

  • Understand the importance of effective transitions in group care

  • Explore and practice various types of strategies for effective transitions throughout the daily schedule of activities

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Duration: 1 - 2 hours

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Temperament

Session Content: 

  • Understand and explore Flexible, Fearful or Fiesty, the different temperaments of Infants and toddlers

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Duration: 1 - 2 hours

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Creating Indoor & Outdoor Environments for

Infants & Toddlers I

Session Content: 

  • Develop a deeper understanding developmentally-appropriate indoor and outdoor learning environments for infants and toddlers.

  • Design and create an environment for those you care for. 

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Duration: 2+ hours

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Creating Indoor & Outdoor Environments for Infants & Toddlers II

Session Content: 

  • Develop a deeper understanding of how to plan for or improve an infant and toddler care setting.

  • Learn how to set up specific areas for infants and toddlers.

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Duration: 2+ hours

The Home-Based Program

Understand the essence of the Home-Based Program option with support and training designed for program staff in all positions.

 

Learn how to effectively design and implement a high-quality home-based program and support enrolled families to achieve desired outcomes with targeted program services.

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  • Trainings Suited for: Home Visitors, Home-Based Program Supervisors and Managers, and Program Directors​

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  • Level of Content: Beginner level for new staff to advanced level for seasoned staff.

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  • Service Delivery: Consultation, program review and recommendations, professional development support, targeted training and support for implementation of content into practice.

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The Guiding Processes
of Home Visiting

Session Content:

  • The home-based program model

  • The process of home visiting

  • The responsibilities & steps of home visiting

  • Key approaches for working with parents

  • Taking a strengths-based perspective

  • Cultural competence

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Duration: 4+ hours

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The Home Visitor
& Parent Relationship

Session Content:

  • The role & relationship of the Home Visitor

  • The triadic relationship with the parent & family & their child.

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Duration: 3+ hours

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The Parent &
Child Relationship

Session Content:

  • The relationships parents develop with their child

  • Ways that the home-based program supports the parent-child relationship

  •  The young child’s universal learning agenda, developmental needs & temperament that influence the relationships parents develop with their child

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Duration: 3+ hours

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Child Development

Session Content:

  • Child development

  • Brain development

  • The importance of attachment

  • Responsiveness to support the developing child

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Duration: 2+ hours

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Guidance & Discipline

Session Content:

  • Explore socialization and guidance practices that support a young child’s developmental readiness

  • Developmentally appropriate guidance and discipline practices

  • Providing guidance and discipline strategies with parents and families.

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Duration: 4+ hours

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Kindergarten Guide

Language &
Cognitive Development

Session Content:

  • Children’s learning

  • Ways for parents to support learning in the home through naturally occurring interactions and objects

  • Language and cognitive development 

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Duration: 4+ hours

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Special Considerations
in Home Visiting

Session Content:

  • Child development concerns

  • Parent and child mental health

  • Communicating with parents

  • The role and responsibilities of those that supervise and support Home Visitors

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Duration: 4+ hours

Day Care

Socializations & Home Visiting

Session Content:

  • Design and implement effective Socialization opportunities for children and families that support home-based program services and programming.

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Duration: 3+ hours

Holding Hands

Reflective Practice,
Self-Awareness & Self-Care

Session Content:

  • The importance of Reflective Practice to support home-based program services and Home Visitors

  • Information and resources to support home-based program staff’s self-awareness

  • Self-care practices to sustain high-quality program practices and effective implementation of program services

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Duration: 4+ hours

Family Services & Engagement

Explore and understand the essence of family services and engaging families as an essential component to an early childhood program.  Learn the role of family services and family service staff, how to engage and build relationships with families, and the critical elements of the Family Partnership Process. Learn how to assist families reduce their stressors and increase their strengths and capabilities to be their child’s first and best teacher and advocate.​​

 

Training Suited for: Family Service Staff, Family Service Supervisors and Managers, and Program Directors​

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Level of Content: Beginner to advance for new and seasoned family service staff and home-based program staff.​

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Service Delivery: Consultation, program review and recommendations, professional development support, targeted training and support for implementation of content into practice.

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Overview of Family Services

Session Content:

  • The Foundations of Family Engagement

  • Building Relationships and Partnerships with Families

  • On the Job - Roles and Responsibilities ​

 

Duration: 5 -6 hours

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The Family Partnership Process

Session Content: 

  • Recruitment and Enrollment

  • Family and Child Assessment

  • Communication with Families

  • Goal Setting with Families

  • Follow Up and Support

  • Continuous Program Improvement

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Duration: 1 1/2 - 2 hours

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Goal Setting with Families

Session Content:

  • Understand and explore the goal setting process as part of the Family Partnership Process

  • Explore the various steps necessary to support goals from creation to accomplishment

  • Practice strategies to utilize to support families with their goals to reduce their stressors and increase their self-reliance​

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Duration: 3 hours

Project

Motivational Interviewing

Session Content: 

  • Gain increased understanding of factors that make it difficult for families to engage 

  • Gain strategies for improving and developing positive relationships with families

  • Gain strategies for having more-helpful conversations that facilitate growth

  • Understand Motivational Interviewing strategies

  • Understand how to implement MI strategies with families to facilitate and support their change process

  • Build skills by practicing MI strategies

 

Duration: 2 -4 hours

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