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Parenting While Rising to Child Developmental Challenges Episode 5

Virtual

This free, 5-episode virtual conversation series offers a warm and inviting opportunity to connect with other parents and families of children with differences in or challenges to their development. Through a series of conversations with parents of children with developmental differences, challenges, or disabilities, we will explore the unique as well as common experiences of loving and raising children whose developmental process and journey is delayed or atypical. We will discuss the challenges and joys of family life with children with a wide array of ways of being in the world. Over the five conversations, we will cover topics near and dear to the hearts and experiences of families as we all learn from each other about how to best support and advocate for our children, the whole family, and our communities.

All are welcome to join and engage in these powerful conversations!

Free

Recurring

Touchpoints Training: The How of Child and Family Engagement (JAN2025)

Virtual

Touchpoints: The How of Child and Family Engagement is an intensive training program that introduces the Touchpoints Approach, which is an evidence-based approach to building strong family-child relationships from before birth through age 5. Participants who implement Touchpoints in their practice partner with families to lay the vital foundation for children’s early learning and healthy development.

Course format: This course consists 28 training hours including six monthly one-hour virtual reflective practice sessions. Attendance is required at all live sessions, each of which is 4 hours long. Participants who complete the course will receive a certificate of attendance. This course is approved for 20.25 Continuing Education Credits for physicians, nurses, social workers, and psychologists. Learn more.

Session Dates and Times: This course will take place on the following days @ 9 am – 1 pm ET / 6 – 10 am PT

Tues 01/14/2025
Thurs 01/16/2025
Tues 01/21/2025
Thurs 01/23/2025
Tues 01/28/2025
Thurs 01/30/2025
What you will learn:

Strategies for building partnerships with parents that promote family strengths
A framework to understand why children’s behavior can sometimes be challenging and confusing
Techniques for talking with families about child development concerns
How to actively listen to families and collaboratively solve problems related to child development or a child-family relationship
Number of participants: Minimum of 10 Maximum of 20

$895
Recurring

Supporting Healthy Social, Emotional, and Relational Development (JAN 2025)

Virtual

Social, emotional, and relational development is an intertwined process that happens across the lifespan beginning at birth. Ongoing support for social-emotional development and well-being enhances the relationships necessary for everyone’s mental health. The cumulative stresses of our times affect everyone’s mental health: infants, children, families and providers. This 3-part interactive workshop series explores the building blocks of healthy development and offers strategies to cope and heal through relationship-based care practices.

Each virtual workshop will be a highly interactive combination of didactic content, large group discussion, and small group break-out activities for reflection and practice.

Course format:

Live interactive webinar on Tuesdays @ 2-4 pm ET / 11 am -1 pm PT:

01/14/2025: Development of Social Emotional Competence in the context of Trauma
01/21/2025: Relationship-based Practices for Enhancing Family-Child Relationships and Mental Health
01/28/2025: Building our Own Resilience and Mental Health
# of hours:

6 clock hour certificate will be provided

$200
Recurring

Touchpoints Training: The How of Child and Family Engagement (JAN2025)

Virtual

Touchpoints: The How of Child and Family Engagement is an intensive training program that introduces the Touchpoints Approach, which is an evidence-based approach to building strong family-child relationships from before birth through age 5. Participants who implement Touchpoints in their practice partner with families to lay the vital foundation for children’s early learning and healthy development.

Course format: This course consists 28 training hours including six monthly one-hour virtual reflective practice sessions. Attendance is required at all live sessions, each of which is 4 hours long. Participants who complete the course will receive a certificate of attendance. This course is approved for 20.25 Continuing Education Credits for physicians, nurses, social workers, and psychologists. Learn more.

Session Dates and Times: This course will take place on the following days @ 9 am – 1 pm ET / 6 – 10 am PT

Tues 01/14/2025
Thurs 01/16/2025
Tues 01/21/2025
Thurs 01/23/2025
Tues 01/28/2025
Thurs 01/30/2025
What you will learn:

Strategies for building partnerships with parents that promote family strengths
A framework to understand why children’s behavior can sometimes be challenging and confusing
Techniques for talking with families about child development concerns
How to actively listen to families and collaboratively solve problems related to child development or a child-family relationship
Number of participants: Minimum of 10 Maximum of 20

$895
Recurring

Touchpoints Training: The How of Child and Family Engagement (JAN2025)

Virtual

Touchpoints: The How of Child and Family Engagement is an intensive training program that introduces the Touchpoints Approach, which is an evidence-based approach to building strong family-child relationships from before birth through age 5. Participants who implement Touchpoints in their practice partner with families to lay the vital foundation for children’s early learning and healthy development.

Course format: This course consists 28 training hours including six monthly one-hour virtual reflective practice sessions. Attendance is required at all live sessions, each of which is 4 hours long. Participants who complete the course will receive a certificate of attendance. This course is approved for 20.25 Continuing Education Credits for physicians, nurses, social workers, and psychologists. Learn more.

Session Dates and Times: This course will take place on the following days @ 9 am – 1 pm ET / 6 – 10 am PT

Tues 01/14/2025
Thurs 01/16/2025
Tues 01/21/2025
Thurs 01/23/2025
Tues 01/28/2025
Thurs 01/30/2025
What you will learn:

Strategies for building partnerships with parents that promote family strengths
A framework to understand why children’s behavior can sometimes be challenging and confusing
Techniques for talking with families about child development concerns
How to actively listen to families and collaboratively solve problems related to child development or a child-family relationship
Number of participants: Minimum of 10 Maximum of 20

$895
Recurring

Supporting Healthy Social, Emotional, and Relational Development (JAN 2025)

Virtual

Social, emotional, and relational development is an intertwined process that happens across the lifespan beginning at birth. Ongoing support for social-emotional development and well-being enhances the relationships necessary for everyone’s mental health. The cumulative stresses of our times affect everyone’s mental health: infants, children, families and providers. This 3-part interactive workshop series explores the building blocks of healthy development and offers strategies to cope and heal through relationship-based care practices.

Each virtual workshop will be a highly interactive combination of didactic content, large group discussion, and small group break-out activities for reflection and practice.

Course format:

Live interactive webinar on Tuesdays @ 2-4 pm ET / 11 am -1 pm PT:

01/14/2025: Development of Social Emotional Competence in the context of Trauma
01/21/2025: Relationship-based Practices for Enhancing Family-Child Relationships and Mental Health
01/28/2025: Building our Own Resilience and Mental Health
# of hours:

6 clock hour certificate will be provided

$200
Recurring

Strengths-based Leadership, Mentorship, and Coaching (Jan 2025)

Virtual

Whether you are a leader, mentor, manager, or coach, you know that building relationships with the people you work with is key. And you know that the way you work with them shapes the way they work, and their own wellbeing too. Focusing on their strengths in your conversations with them can help build collaborative, trusting relationships that inspire confidence, nurture practice change, and unleash professional growth. This workshop series offers strategies you can use to further cultivate and sustain a strengths-based approach in your leadership, mentorship and coaching role.

In this course, participants will learn:

How to take the other person’s perspective to support a strengths-based approach
How to identify where staff start and how they are advancing in their learning process
How to highlight and appreciate staff strengths in your interactions with them
Strategies that can help you deepen your connections with staff
Facilitator:

Christina Mondi-Rago, PhD
Intended Audience:

All professionals who serve in a leadership, management, coach, or mentor role, including directors, supervisors, coaches, peer or team leaders, and education or mental health consultants

Course format:

2-part workshop series, 3 hours each, totaling 6 hours of training
January 22 & 23, 1-4 pm ET / 10-1 pm PT
Live Spanish translation and closed captioning available
Participants receive a certificate of participation

$200