Virtual Institute for Health and Mental Health Leaders
WebinarThis three-day virtual institute will provide a unique opportunity for both new and experienced health leaders to deepen their skills and understanding. Discover how Head Start and Early Head Start programs can enhance the health and well-being of the children and families they serve. Explore strategies to prepare to resume healthy, safe, and nurturing in-person program services. Virtual sessions will include plenaries, workshops, networking and engagement activities, and learning opportunities in English and Spanish.
Increased Access, Increased Learning
WebinarWhen children can fully access their learning environment, they participate and learn effectively. Join this webinar to discover how disabilities services coordinators can help educators think about ways to give children with disabilities or suspected delays access to a full range of learning experiences and activities. Explore how coordinators can help educators learn to notice each child’s level of participation. Discuss how to set up the learning environment for maximum participation and when to modify activities and materials for all children.
How to They/Them: A Guide to Nonbinary Pronouns and Gender Fluidity
WebinarWhat does nonbinary really mean? What is gender nonconforming? And isn't they a plural pronoun? In this charming and disarming guide, Stuart Getty, a real-life they-using genderqueer writer, unpacks all your burning questions in a fun, visual way. No soapboxes or divisive comment-section wars here! Sometimes funny, sometimes serious, always human, this gender-friendly primer will get you up to speed. It's about more than just bathrooms and pronouns--this is about gender expression and the freedom to choose how to identify.
Engaged: Using Summer to Connect with Students and Families
WebinarWorking together we can create a bridge to school an intentional approach that utilizes the summer to create connection, a feeling of belonging and excitement about learning.
Reflecting on Resilience: A celebration of learning of 2020-2021 school year
WebinarIn the final installment of our “Making Distance Learning Work” webinar series, we will celebrate all that we have learned together this school year. We have engaged in reflective practice in the midst of the unknown and guided our youngest learners in growth and discovery through one of the most challenging school years in recent memory. Together, we will celebrate the challenges, innovations, and resilience of the early childhood field in this educator-featured “Celebration of Learning.”
Overcoming the Challenges of Integrating Nature into the Early Childhood Classroom
WebinarThis edWebinar will help early childhood educators identify the principles fundamental to a nature-based approach and the benefits of such an approach. Then, using a continuum of nature-based early childhood education as the overarching framework, Rachel A. Larimore will address the unique challenges of integrating nature into the preschool classroom.
Mind in the Making and Vroom: Even Babies Develop Executive Function
WebinarErin Ramsey and Dan Torres will join us from the Bezos Foundation to talk about the importance of executive function and how even our youngest Head Start babies can start to develop these vital life skills. Through Mind In The Making and Vroom, they work to ensure all children and the adults who support them understand how to build better executive function.
Community Resiliency Model (CRM) Parent/Caregiver Training: Part 1
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.
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!