Events for September 29, 2024 - September 29, 2024

Didn't pre-register?  No problem!  Please join us. In this session, we will provide tips and tools for creating positive mealtime attitudes in your classroom and communicating with parents in order to sustain those healthful practices at home. Please come prepared to share from your experience!

Take a closer look at the Instructional Support Domain: Concept Development, Quality of Feedback, and Language Modeling.  Learn more about these important dimensions of the CLASS tool and what they look like in the classroom.  Session will use breakout room discussions so please do your best to be at a device with camera and microphone to participate in breakout groups.

Didn't pre-register?  No problem!  Join us for a discussion and Q&A session with Child Welfare Screening Manager Sarah Stankey.  Learn everything you wanted to know about child welfare, child abuse reporting,  working with DHS, and how to best support the the children and family throughout throughout the process.

Didn't pre-register?  No problem!  Please join us. We will discuss some of the joys and challenges of teaching in the Extended Day model.  Will share tips and info from teams for strategies that keep things running smoothly.  Session will include time for participants to discuss, share, and ask questions of each other so please do your best to be at a device with camera and microphone to participate in breakout groups.

Didn't pre-register?  No problem!  Please join us. In Part 1, we learned about the history of poverty in the US along with statistics and types of poverty.  In Part 2, we explored the communication characteristics of print and oral culture. Join us for Part 3 as we explore the effective characteristics of mentors who are poverty informed.  Join our in house poverty coaches; Al McGillivray, Becca Bruce, Chava Kronen, and Karla Snell along with special guest Candice King, an independent contractor advocate, Community Organizer, Housing Navigator, and all around inspirational speaker. The attached activity (Mentoring In Practice), will have the best impact if you are able to take a look ahead of the session. Please have the activity with you when you join the workshop.

In this experiential workshop, you’ll look at our field’s concepts of child development (i.e., regulation, reciprocity, rupture-repair) through the lens of social justice practice. You’ll explore ways to embed social justice practices of solidarity, power-with, and accountability into your daily work with families and young children.

Topics will include: Crisis prevention, philosophy and basics of person centered communications, scene safety, crisis de-escalation strategies, rapport building, the role of self in any intervention, and the importance of debriefing.

Please join us for a virtual conversation with best-selling author Dr. Bruce Perry. Ingrid Cockhren-CEO of PACEs Connection, Mathew Portell-PACEs Connection's Director of Communities, and Dr. Perry will engage in a conversation concerning Historical Trauma and his best selling book "What Happened to You?", which he co-authored with Oprah Winfrey.