Workshops are offered regularly on a statewide basis and are typically open to all interested in attending. They can also be scheduled for on-site presentations. Workshops are typically $200 for a maximum of 20 participants. All workshops can be adapted to suit the needs of the participants (i.e. parents, teachers and administrators). Please contact us if you would like to schedule a workshop at your facility.
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TITLE: Child Abuse and Neglect Indicators
This workshop is designed to promote a new awareness of and increase factual knowledge regarding child abuse and neglect’s physical and behavioral indicators. It is a workshop suitable for teachers, teacher assistants, childcare providers, directors, owners, and volunteers, adult students, home visitors, case managers.
TITLE: Mandated Reporters and Child Abuse and Neglect Laws
Prerequisite: Child Abuse and Neglect Indicators workshop
This workshop is designed to discuss the child abuse and neglect laws as well as what is means to be a mandated reporter. What you should know before making the call the child protective services and what to expect after the call has been made.
TITLE: Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting: Whew…This is Difficult!
Prerequisite: Child Abuse and Neglect Indicators workshop
This workshop is designed to discuss what happens when you report child abuse and neglect to child protective services. Through facilitated conversation participants will explore ways to handle confidentiality issues, personal feelings about making the report, brainstorm community referrals for families, and general information about what you should know before making the call the child protective services and what to expect after the call has been made.
TITLE: Child Abuse and Neglect from an Administrator’s Perspective
This workshop is designed to assist Program Administrators to develop comprehensive program policies with regard to issues of child abuse and neglect. Child abuse and neglect indicators, reporting mandates, hiring and screening personnel (paid and volunteer), and overall child supervision issues will be presented. The workshop will provide guidance regarding the issue of written policies/procedures and child safety.
TITLE: Strengthening Families – Building Protective Factors:
Your Role as an Administrator
Research shows that strong early childhood programs can be enhanced to incorporate child abuse prevention strategies and can serve as an effective “early warning system” to immediately and effectively address risky situations – in addition to their traditional roles of promoting healthy child development. This workshop session addresses the Administrator’s role in building protective factors, facilitating an atmosphere of and for family support, and creating a strong “early warning system” at the program level.
TITLE: Strengthening Families – Building Protective Factors: Your Role as an Early Childhood Educator
Research shows that strong early childhood programs can be enhanced to incorporate child abuse prevention strategies and can serve as an effective “early warning system” to immediately and effectively address risky situations – in addition to their traditional roles of promoting healthy child development. This workshop session addresses the parent’s role in building protective factors, facilitating an atmosphere of and for family support and growth, and being an active participant in “early warning system” for child maltreatment.
TITLE: Strengthening Families: Building Connections with Fathers
This workshop is designed to facilitate a new perspective related to the role and rights of the father and to develop effective ways to communicate with and engage fathers, step fathers, grandfathers, foster fathers, and other significant men in the lives of the children in their programs. Group discussion will focus on parent involvement as a whole with special emphasis on the intricacies of getting men involved on a daily basis…way beyond the playground improvement project level! The workshop will offer resources and will promote brainstorming to develop unique strategies for getting dads and others involved.
TITLE: Strengthening Families: Making Friends and Social Connections
“Having a young child can be a profoundly isolating experience – or it can open up opportunities to connect with others.” (Center for the Study of Social Policy) This workshop is designed to expand provider perspective for working with families and providing family support. Group discussion will focus on parent involvement as a whole with special emphasis on facilitating family peer friendships and social connections
TITLE: Strengthening Families: A Cultural Perspective
This workshop will explore culture in the home environment and its affect on learning. It will address the implications of the different cultures children and their families bring to school and their perceptions of school. What do children and their families bring with them when they first enter school in the way of culturally shaped expectations, attitudes, skills, and knowledge? How do we make the environment culturally friendly for all our children and families? Self-assessment to ensure our program is inviting to all cultures?
TITLE: Strengthening Families:
Using child observation to create beneficial partnerships with parents
This workshop will offer strategies for optimizing opportunities to engage parents in the process of observation and assessment to foster child development. Discuss how to inform and teach parents about their child’s growth and development and how to deliver the tough information in a proactive and positive fashion.
TITLE: Strengthening Families: Partnering with Parents
Parents and caregivers share a deep concern and love for their children. All children need parents who can identify, meet, and advocate for their needs. While all parents want to do their best, they cannot always do it alone. By recognizing and building upon existing strengths within the family and community, we can partner with parents and caregivers to provide children a safe, nurturing, and loving environment.
TITLE: Shaken Baby Syndrome: What is it?
This workshop is designed to give childcare providers information about a little known form of physical child abuse called Shaken Baby Syndrome. The presentation will impart information about the causes of Shaken Baby Syndrome, the signs/symptoms, data on perpetrators, and strategies for prevention. It will promote a new look at safety issues in the child care setting and will put new perspective on the issue of worker stress management as it relates to crying babies and challenging toddlers. It is a workshop suitable for teachers, teacher assistants, directors, owners, and volunteers.
TITLE: “Words can Hurt” – Emotional Abuse
This workshop is designed to give staff at all levels critical information about verbal, and emotional abuse, its indicators, ramifications, and intervention strategies for use in the classroom and at home. The workshop will explore how words and tone impact the well being of children.
TITLE: “What You Say is What You Get” – a workshop for parents
This workshop is designed to give parents and caregivers new insight about how their tone, their words, and body language has a direct effect upon their child’s behavior, attitude, and ability to interact with others. The workshop offers specific information about emotional and social competence, basic child development, and parenting techniques. It is an interactive workshop.
TITLE: Childhood Stress: Helping Adults to Understand
This workshop is designed to give staff at all levels critical information about childhood stress, its indicators, ramifications, and intervention strategies for use in the classroom, programs and for mentoring parents. The workshop will offer concrete techniques that staff can offer to parents for use at home to minimize and manage childhood stress.
TITLE: Bullies and Victims – How do we help them?
This workshop is designed to discuss why a child becomes a bully, what to do with them, and how do we help them break out of that behavior. And what about the victims: What can we do for them, give them the power to stand up to the bully, be left alone, or even help protect other children from the bully. This workshop will provide concrete strategies for dealing with bullying in the classroom, on the playground, and within youth programs as a whole.
TITLE: Internet Safety: At home and at school
This workshop is designed to make everyone aware of the dangers of the Internet. Do you really know what the children are surfing for on-line? Do you know the latest jargon that the children use? Who is talking to your child in the chat room? Become educated in Internet safety, before it is too late.
TITLE: 3P’s of Parenting: Provide, Participate, and Prevent
This workshop is designed for parents, grandparents, and all other caretakers. The workshop facilitates participants to look at the parenting role from a new perspective regarding children’s needs. Discussions around the provision of a nurturing and healthy environment, parental participation in the child’s growth and development, and stress management take place. The workshop promotes a new awareness of and is intended to increase factual knowledge what constitutes child abuse and neglect, and their role as the child’s best advocate.
TITLE: Everyday Safety: Do We Really Need Eyes in the Back of Our Heads?
This workshop is designed for childcare providers [Center-based and family home child care] to promote a new look at safety issues around our buildings, in our classrooms, and on the playground. It will put new perspective on the issue of safety. It is a workshop suitable for teachers, teacher assistants, directors, owners, and volunteers.
TITLE: Everyday Safety: For Parents
This workshop is designed for parents and other caregivers to promote a new look at household and family safety. It will facilitate a new way of thinking about safety in the home, safety related to child supervision, child care choices (including babysitter choices), teaching children personal safety. It is a workshop designed for all parents…new parents and veteran parents! It will help parents to “have eyes in the backs of their heads”
TITLE: Stress Management: Just How Do We Keep Our Sanity?
This workshop is designed to give staff, supervisors, administrators, and others in positions of authority the tools and techniques needed to maintain sanity and foster a continued love for the work we do, even when we feel it will never be quiet again!!! Techniques for stress management, time management, project coordination, delegation and self-health are discussed. It is a workshop suitable for parents, social workers, teachers, teacher assistants, directors, owners, and volunteers.
TITLE: How Do I Get It All Done? Where Do I Find The Time?
This workshop will offer strategies for organizing oneself in order to get through the workday … through the week … through the project … through life…. The presentation and hands-on participation will cover topics and situations related to time and project management, motivating oneself and others, communication and relationships with colleagues, clients, and friends, and overall stress management. It is a workshop that is designed for information giving as well as brainstorming among peers… it is a workshop suitable for supervisors, line staff, volunteers and administrators.
TITLE: Cultivating the Seeds of Professionalism
This workshop will cover how to promote professional behavior, conduct and attitude among staff at all levels. The presentation will impart seven key elements of Professionalism: Knowledge – Pride – Respect – Vision – Quality – Stress Management – Ethics. It will promote a new look at expectations for staff development, program outcomes, organizational behavior and stress management as a universal concept. It is a workshop that is designed for information giving as well as brainstorming among peers… it is a workshop suitable for supervisors, line staff, volunteers and administrators.
TITLE: Express Yourself! Great Ways to Communicate with Co-workers and Parents
This workshop looks at the key elements for effective communication in the early childhood setting. Learn why others don’t hear what you think you said….explore new ways to get your point across…and find effective strategies for building cooperation and “buy-in”. Good communication is the foundation for great teamwork at all levels. This workshop is highly interactive and filled with humor! It is suitable for all staff, administrators, and parents, too!
TITLE: Talking To Parents - Dealing With Difficult Issues
This workshop is aimed at helping staff to talk to parents about those more difficult issues: children’s hygiene, chronic tardiness in the mornings, children’s behavioral issues, domestic violence, parents who are under the influence of alcohol or drugs when picking up at the end of the day….explore new ways to get your point across…and find effective strategies for building cooperation and “buy-in”. Good communication is the foundation for great teamwork at all levels. This workshop is highly interactive and filled with humor! It is suitable for all staff and administrators.
TITLE: Teamwork and Communication
So you want everyone to be friends and “play well together”…. Don’t you think that you are expecting a bit much? TEAMWORK and good COMMUNICATION are achievable….this workshop session explores the basic concepts of both teamwork and communication. Building “Team Culture” is possible. Participants will participate in several interactive strategies while exploring and learning about these concepts.
TITLE: Parenting and Child Development
Each child has different abilities and skill sets and no two children develop exactly the same. Understanding typical child development enables early childhood educators to customize daily lesson plans and classroom environments to meet the needs of individual children and foster optimal growth and development for all children. Fostering trust, social-emotional well-being, physical growth and cognitive development are top priorities for educators and parents alike. This workshop session presents the general sequence of growth and development of children while mapping it to the six stages of parent development. That’s right…parents are in the midst of a growth and development process, too!
TITLE: Child Play – Maximizing Learning Opportunities
The human brain is built over time and the early years are critically important because a child’s early life experiences create the foundation for their lifelong learning, behavior, and their physical and mental health. Play is a critically important component and promoter of the brain development process. Offering children the opportunity to explore and experience the wonders of life through play greatly enhances the child’s world. Participants in this workshop session will learn the basics of brain development and will explore the opportunities for maximizing the many opportunities for play throughout the early childhood program facility including the playground and surrounding community.
TITLE: How Early Experiences Affect Brain Development:
The Role of the Early Childhood Provider
The human brain shapes and reshapes itself with every experience that we have throughout our lives. Let’s explore the brain and examine the ways the ways the brain is influenced by who we are and what we experience. Current brain research offers us great insight into our critical role as a provider. We must provide positive experiences to help the brain develop in young children.
TITLE: Brain Development Basics – Three Part Series
(Two-Hour Workshop Sessions - Total Contact Hours: 6 hours)
Session I Title: The Science of Brain Development: The Role of the Early Childhood ProviderThe human brain is built over time through an ongoing process that begins before birth and continues through adulthood. The early years are critically important because a child’s early life experiences create the foundation for their lifelong learning, behavior, and their physical and mental health. This workshop session presents basic easy to understand brain development information and offers opportunities for discovering new ways to foster brain development in our programs.
Session II Title: Brain Development: Nature versus NurtureThe brain is made up of millions of highly integrated sets of connections that are “wired” through the continuous and mutual influences of both genetics and environment. The human brain shapes and reshapes itself with every experience that we have throughout our lives. Children who experience toxic levels of stress tragically experience negative impacts upon the structure and functioning of their brain. Current brain research offers us great insight into our critical role as a provider. Let’s explore the brain further and examine the ways we can foster strong brains in the children we care for.
Session III Title: Brain Development:
The Essentials Elements of Healthy Development of Children Children who receive sensitive, responsive care from their parents and child care providers in the first years of life enjoy an important head start toward success in their lives. The secure relationships that they develop lay the foundation for emotional development and help protect them from the many stresses they will face in their lives. Participants will examine ways to maximize opportunities in the classroom and foster healthy development through curriculum, practice and parent support.
TITLE: Brain Development and Children - Four Part Series
(Two and One Half [2.5] Hour Workshop Sessions - Total Contact Hours: 10 hours)
Session I Title: The Science of Brain Development and Attachment Theory for the Early Childhood Provider
The human brain is built over time through an ongoing process that begins before birth and continues through adulthood. The early years are critically important because a child’s early life experiences create the foundation for their lifelong learning, behavior, and their physical and mental health. Early Childhood Attachment is a critically important element of brain development with lifelong ramifications. This workshop session presents basic easy-to-understand information and resources.
Session II Title: Brain Development: Nature versus Nurture
The brain is made up of millions of highly integrated sets of connections that are “wired” through the continuous and mutual influences of both genetics and environment. The human brain shapes and reshapes itself with every experience that we have throughout our lives. Children who experience toxic levels of stress tragically experience negative impacts upon the structure and functioning of their brain. Current brain research offers us great insight into our critical role as a provider. Let’s explore the brain further and examine the ways we can foster strong brains in the children we care for.
Session III Title: Fostering Optimal Brain Development:
The Essential Elements of Healthy Development of Children
Children who receive sensitive, responsive care from their parents and child care providers in the first years of life enjoy an important head start toward success in their lives. The secure relationships that they develop lay the foundation for emotional development and help protect them from the many stresses they will face in their lives. Participants will examine ways to maximize opportunities in the classroom and foster healthy development through curriculum and practice.
Session IV Title: Positive Parenting: Engaging and Supporting Parents for Brain Development
Parents and caregivers share a deep concern and love for their children. All children need parents who can identify, meet, and advocate for their needs. While all parents want to do their best, they cannot always do it alone. By recognizing and building upon existing strengths within the family and community, we can partner with parents and caregivers to provide children with optimal environments for healthy brain development.
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