COVID-19 and Children with Special Health Care Needs: CCHCs Can Help
WebinarJoin this webinar to explore how child care health consultants (CCHCs) can address the impact of COVID-19 on children with chronic health conditions, using asthma as a case study. Learn how CCHCs can work with families and programs to understand new recommendations to keep children with special health care needs safe during the pandemic.
Trauma-Informed Facilitation Workshop
WebinarJoin us for this free, interactive workshop about the importance of implementing trauma-informed facilitation in your work. This is a two-part training, June 7 & 21, 9:00 – 11:00am, led by the Trauma Healing Project, and hosted by Live Healthy Lane, Early Learning Alliance, and United Way of Lane County. Be sure to add both dates to your calendar!
Strengths Based Approach to Culturally Responsive Services: Understanding the influence of Culture
WebinarEvery individual is rooted in culture. To build ongoing, goal-oriented relationships with families, program staff value and embrace the diverse cultures of enrolled children and families while also exploring their own. In this interactive session, join NCPFCE to review key concepts that will enhance understanding and awareness of how culture may influence engagement efforts with families.
Identifying and Working with Children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASDs)
WebinarThis webinar will provide teachers and home visitors with strategies to help identify and improve outcomes for children who were prenatally exposed to alcohol. Learn how FASDs may cause problems with learning and development that lead to challenging behaviors. Understanding the cause of these behaviors can inform strategies to support positive social and emotional development and learning.
Staff Retention from Inception: Effective Interviews and Onboarding in ECE
WebinarDo you ever wonder why recently hired staff don’t hang around for long, or worse, behave in ways that make you question your own judgment in hiring them? Every childcare business should have interview and onboarding/orientation processes that are streamlined, consistent and empowering for new staff members. From the moment you first screen applicants through the moment you make the job offer, you will want to share the roadmap to them becoming a part of the team. Hiring and onboarding are best thought of as a process of ramping staff into the culture of your program– think of it as organizational socialization!
Coaching Conversations: Supporting Teachers to Implement Pyramid Model Practices Equitably
WebinarCoaches work collaboratively with teachers to support them in implementing Pyramid Model practices. Pyramid Model practices are designed to support young children’s development of social-emotional competence including emotional literacy, problem-solving, communicate their wants and needs, and peer relationship skills and to decrease the likelihood they will engage in challenging behavior. How do coaches support teachers to ensure they are using Pyramid Model practices to address the individual needs of each and every child in their classroom? In this webinar, panelists will discuss ways coaches can support teachers to implement Pyramid Model practices equitably.
Community Resiliency Model (CRM) Parent/Caregiver Training: Part 2
WebinarThe Community Resiliency Model (CRM)® is a mental health training for parents, caregivers, and community members to support families and their wider social network. The primary focus of this skills-based program is to re-set the natural balance of the nervous system in order to bring the body, mind, and spirit back into greater balance. CRM’s goal is to help to create “trauma-informed” and “resiliency-focused” communities that share a common understanding of the impact of trauma and chronic stress on the nervous system, and how resiliency can be restored or increased using this skills-based approach.
Playing Makes You Smarter!
As crazy as our world seems right now, we need to put our children first. We need to remember that children want and need the same things they’ve always wanted. They want to be loved, they want to feel safe, and they want to play and have fun! Join Dr. Jean and Carolyn Kisloski and discover how to TEACH the WHOLE child with hands-on activities, games, centers, and PLAY!
Wonder of Wonders! Harnessing the Wonder of Play through Provocations
WebinarFrom a very young age, children begin expressing their own unique views and ideas. Children are born with many strengths and abilities that continue to unfold and mature throughout their lives. When we respect and value a child’s individual interests in play, we are giving them the fundamental right to realize their unique potential. Children have the amazing capacity to construct their own learning. Learn how we can harness this undeniable power and wonder of play in Play Provocations. What is a play provocation and how can we support and expand the hidden potential of children’s play?
Sustaining Ourselves: Workforce Wellness in the Face of Trauma
WebinarThis workshop is for professionals who work with survivors of trauma and for lead staff and administrators working to develop and sustain workers and workplaces that are healthy for everyone. As many of us recognize, providing care and support for survivors of violence, abuse and other forms of trauma can be both rewarding and emotionally taxing. Survivors who take on this work – especially survivors who have done their own healing – can be very powerful advocates and allies. However, to thrive personally and professionally in these roles, we need processes that actively promote healing, personal growth, and professional development in the face of difficult stories and experiences that come up while working with vulnerable people. This workshop is an opportunity to explore the impact of trauma on workers and organizations and to develop trauma-sensitive strategies for supporting the health and well-being of staff and organizations serving survivors of trauma.