Webinars

Webinar Length: 60 minutes

Presenter: Sara Johnson, LCSW

Target Audience:

• Direct care providers (e.g., caseworkers, childcare providers, court advocates, early interventionists, medical/mental health professionals, and teachers)
• Supervisors / agency leadership

Objectives:

• Discuss basic factors that contribute to early childhood exclusionary discipline and the disparities within it
• Identify strategies to support teachers and caregivers in order to prevent preschool expulsion and caregiver burnout
• Identify strategies to promote pro-social skills and emotion regulation in young children, as well as de-escalation techniques to decrease aggression and risk of preschool expulsion

Webinar Length: 90 minutes

Presenter: Cynthia Palacios-Gutierrez, PsyD

Target Audience:

•  Direct care providers (e.g., caseworkers, childcare providers, court advocates, early interventionists, medical/mental health professionals, and teachers)
•  Supervisors / agency leadership

Objectives:

• Understand how regulation skills develop throughout the preschool years and beyond

• Further understanding of activities that can be used with preschoolers to help build and strengthen practice of regulation skills

Webinar Length: 60 minutes

Presenter: Kimberli Berrett, CMHC

Target Audience:

•  Direct care providers (e.g., caseworkers, childcare providers, court advocates, early interventionists, medical/mental health professionals, and teachers)
•  Supervisors / agency leadership

Objectives:

• Identify social and emotional stages of infants and young children
• Consider developmental concerns and need for further assessment
• Discuss potential diagnosis and evidence-based treatments

Webinar Length: 1 hour

Presenter: Aimee Nakamura

Target Audience:

• Early career providers/ students
• Direct care providers (e.g. caseworkers, childcare providers, court advocates, early interventionists, medical/mental health professionals, and teachers)

Objectives:

• Discuss the role of affect management for caregivers in promoting childhood emotional regulation and improvement in the parent-child relationship
• Identify interventions and activities that support affect management for caregivers

Webinar Length: 2 hours

Presenter: Veronica Love, PsyD

Target Audience:

• Direct care providers (e.g., caseworkers, childcare providers, court advocates, early interventionists, medical/mental health professionals, and teachers)
• Supervisors / agency leadership

Objectives:

• Identify potential influencing factors on children’s socioemotional development, as well as the functional impact that these experiences often have in specific areas of development
• Discuss interventions to support parents/caregivers and their children in the development of important social and emotional skills, using techniques that can be applied daily in a variety of settings

Presenter: McCall Lyon, PsyD

Webinar Length: 1 hour

Target Audience:

• Direct care providers (e.g., caseworkers, childcare providers, court advocates, early interventionists, medical/mental health professionals, and teachers)

Objectives:

• Review research related to the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system
• Discuss techniques to activate the body’s parasympathetic nervous system, including short-term relief strategies as well as long-term practices that can increase efficacy of our parasympathetic nervous system over time

Webinar Length: 60 minutes

Presenter: Cynthia Palacios-Gutierrez, PsyD

Target Audience:

• Direct care providers (e.g., caseworkers, childcare providers, court advocates, early interventionists, medical/mental health professionals, and teachers)
•  Supervisors / agency leadership

Objectives:

• Gain a general understanding of communication milestones from birth to 3

• Understand how multilanguage learners’ communication skills develop

• Understand multilanguage learning and how to support the process

Webinar Length: 120 minutes

Presenter: Samantha Smith, PsyD 

Target Audience:

• Direct care providers (e.g., caseworkers, childcare providers, court advocates, early interventionists, medical/mental health professionals, and teachers)
•  Supervisors / agency leadership

Objectives:

• Review the potential impact of early childhood exposure to traumatic events
• Identify some basic principles of trauma-informed engagement with young children that can be used in everyday interactions
• Address ways to build resiliency and improve mental health outcomes for children using trauma-informed techniques in a variety of settings

Webinar Length: 60 minutes

Presenter: McCall Lyon, PsyD

Target Audience:

• Direct care providers (e.g., caseworkers, childcare providers, court advocates, early interventionists, medical/mental health professionals, and teachers)
•  Supervisors / agency leadership

Objectives:

• Review common sleep problems seen in early childhood, associated risk factors, and behavioral correlates
• Consider multicultural lenses related to sleep practices and the role of caregiver preference in sleep routines
• Address methods of improving sleep in early childhood

Webinar Length: 1 hour

Presenter: Samantha Smith, PsyD

Target Audience:

• Direct care providers (e.g., caseworkers, childcare providers, court advocates, early interventionists, medical/mental health professionals, and teachers)
• Early career providers / students
• Supervisors / agency leadership

Objectives:

• Review psychoeducation related to trauma, including how it is experienced by young children and its potential impact on development
• Identify the benefits of screening for trauma in young children and different measures to do so

Webinar Length: 120 Minutes

Presenter: Kimberli Berrett, CMHC

Target Audience:

• Early career providers / students
• Direct care providers (e.g., caseworkers, childcare providers, court advocates, early interventionists, medical/mental health professionals, and teachers)

Objectives:

• Review attachment styles and how attachment is developed
• Identify interventions and activities that enhance attachment

Webinar Length: 2 hours

Presenter: Jamie Sellers, CMHC 

Target Audience:

• Direct care providers (e.g., caseworkers, childcare providers, court advocates, early interventionists, medical/mental health professionals, and teachers)
• Supervisors / agency leadership

Objectives:

• Identify potential influencing factors on children’s socioemotional development, as well as the functional impact that these experiences often have in specific areas of development
• Discuss interventions to support parents/caregivers and their children in the development of important social and emotional skills, using techniques that can be applied daily in a variety of settings

Webinar Length: 2 hours

Presenter: McCall Lyon, PsyD

Target Audience:

• Child advocates (e.g., GAL, CASA)
• Child welfare workers
• Mental healthcare providers
• Supervisors / agency leadership

Objectives:

• Review the potential impact of early childhood exposure to traumatic events
• Discuss the importance of the following domains: supporting attachment, developing a healthy adoption narrative, and promoting ongoing connection to the adopted child’s family and/or culture of origin

Webinar Length: 1 hour

Presenter: McCall Lyon, PsyD

Target Audience:

• Direct care providers (e.g., caseworkers, childcare providers, court advocates, early interventionists, medical/mental health professionals, and teachers)
• Supervisors / agency leadership

Objectives:

• Explore the potential impact of secondary trauma and chronic stressors on providers who work with young children and their families
• Define and discuss the benefits of self-compassion in addressing provider wellness, including interventions that increase mindfulness, connection, and self-kindness

Webinar Length: 2 hours

Presenter: McCall Lyon, PsyD

Target Audience:

• Direct care providers (e.g., caseworkers, childcare providers, court advocates, early interventionists, medical/mental health professionals, and teachers)
• Supervisors / agency leadership

Objectives:

• Identify potential influencing factors on children’s socioemotional development, as well as the functional impact that these experiences often have in specific areas of development
• Discuss interventions to support parents/caregivers and their children in the development of important social and emotional skills, using techniques that can be applied daily in a variety of settings

Webinar Length: 120 Minutes

Presenter: Veronica Love, PsyD 

Target Audience:

• Early career providers / students
• Direct care providers (e.g., caseworkers, childcare providers, court advocates, early interventionists, medical/mental health professionals, and teachers)

Objectives:

• Review attachment styles and how attachment is developed
• Identify interventions and activities that enhance attachment

Webinar Length: 60 minutes

Presenter: Veronica Love, PsyD

Target Audience:

• Early career providers / students
• Group care providers (e.g., child care providers, group therapists, and teachers)
• Anyone engaging with families of young children

Objectives:

• Gain an understanding or infant-early childhood mental health
• Increase capacity to support the social and emotional development of infants and toddlers
• To make meaning of challenging behaviors in infants and toddlers

Webinar Length: 1 hour

Presenter: McCall Lyon, PsyD

Target Audience:

• Direct care providers (e.g., caseworkers, childcare providers, court advocates, early interventionists, medical/mental health professionals, and teachers)
• Supervisors / agency leadership

Objectives:

• Review research related to the importance of providing children with warm, nurturing spaces to explore their gender identity and expression
• Identify ways to discuss topics related to gender with young children using age-appropriate and supportive language
• Provide information about relevant children’s literature, play materials, and support groups for children and their caregivers

Webinar Length: 1 hour

Presenter: McCall Lyon, PsyD

Target Audience:

•  Direct care providers (e.g., caseworkers, childcare providers, court advocates, early interventionists, medical/mental health professionals, and teachers)
•  Supervisors / agency leadership

Objectives:

• Discuss potential risks of “forcing” children to apologize

• Review research related to parental/caregiver goals when prompting apologies

• Identify healthy ways to help children make repair by using empathy, modeling, and problem-solving skills

Webinar Length: 1 hour

Presenter: Aimee Nakamura, LCSW

TARGET AUDIENCE:

• Early career providers/ students
• Direct care providers (e.g. caseworkers, childcare providers, court advocates, early interventionists, medical/mental health professionals, and teachers)

OBJECTIVES:

• Discuss the role of affect management for caregivers in promoting childhood emotional regulation and improvement in the parent-child relationship
• Identify interventions and activities that support affect management for caregivers

Webinar Length: 60 minutes

Presenter: Veronica Love, PsyD

Target Audience:

• Early career providers / students
• Direct care providers (e.g., caseworkers, child care providers, court advocates, early interventionists, medical/mental health professionals, and teachers)

Objectives:

• To increase awareness of three critical areas of social and emotional health
• To increase understanding of how children’s social and emotional well-being impacts future functioning
• To increase application of strategies that foster healthy social and emotional development in young children

Webinar Length: 2 hours

Presenter: McCall Lyon, PsyD

Target Audience:

• Direct care providers (e.g., caseworkers, childcare providers, court advocates, early interventionists, medical/mental health professionals, and teachers)
• Supervisors / agency leadership

Objectives:

• Identify potential influencing factors on children’s socioemotional development, as well as the functional impact that these experiences often have in specific areas of development
• Discuss interventions to support parents/caregivers and their children in the development of important social and emotional skills, using techniques that can be applied daily in a variety of settings

Webinar Length: 2 hours

Presenter: Veronica Love, PsyD

Target Audience:

• Early career providers / students
• Direct care providers (e.g., caseworkers, childcare providers, court advocates, early interventionists, medical/mental health professionals, and teachers)

Objectives:

• Review the foundational principles related to sustainable behavioral change in young children
• Identify direct interventions and techniques that can be used by adults to increase compliance, reduce undesirable behaviors, and ultimately strengthen connection with a child

Webinar Length: 60 minutes

Presenter: Veronica Love, PsyD

Target Audience:

• Early career providers / students
• Group care providers (e.g., child care providers, group therapists, and teachers)
• Anyone engaging with families of young children

Objectives:

• Gain an understanding or infant-early childhood mental health
• Increase capacity to support the social and emotional development of infants and toddlers
• To make meaning of challenging behaviors in infants and toddlers

Webinar Length: 2 hours

Presenter: McCall Lyon, PsyD

Target Audience:

• Group care providers (e.g., childcare providers, group therapists, and teachers)
• Supervisors / agency leadership

Objectives:

• Review research related to the function of aggression in young children, particularly as it relates to peer interaction
• Identify techniques to prevent children from escalating to aggression, as well as tools to manage aggression as it occurs in classroom settings

Webinar Length: 1 hour

Presenter: Samantha Smith, PsyD

Target Audience:

• Direct care providers (e.g., caseworkers, childcare providers, court advocates, early interventionists, medical/mental health professionals, and teachers)
• Supervisors / agency leadership

Objectives:

• Discuss the role mindfulness can play in promoting early childhood mental health through the parent-child relationship
• Identify mindfulness techniques that can be implemented with young children and their caregivers

Webinar Length: 60 minutes

Presenter: Veronica Love, PsyD

Target Audience:

• Direct care providers (e.g., caseworkers, childcare providers, court advocates, early interventionists, medical/mental health professionals, and teachers)
• Early career providers / students
• Supervisors / agency leadership

Objectives:

• To gain an understanding of how racial socialization is defined in Black American families
• To identify practices that may be included in racial socialization
• Explore potential implications in providing services to Black American families

Webinar Length: 1 hour

Presenter: McCall Lyon, PsyD

Target Audience:

• Direct care providers (e.g., caseworkers, childcare providers, court advocates, early interventionists, medical/mental health professionals, and teachers)
• Supervisors / agency leadership

Objectives:

• Explore the potential impact of secondary trauma and chronic stressors on providers who work with young children and their families
• Define and discuss the benefits of self-care in addressing provider wellness, with an emphasis on activities that activate the parasympathetic nervous system

Webinar Length: 2 hours

Presenter: Veronica Love , PsyD

Target Audience:

• Early career providers / students
• Direct care providers (e.g., caseworkers, childcare providers, court advocates, early interventionists, medical/mental health professionals, and teachers)

Objectives:

• Review the foundational principles related to sustainable behavioral change in young children
• Identify direct interventions and techniques that can be used by adults to increase compliance, reduce undesirable behaviors, and ultimately strengthen connection with a child

Webinar Length: 2 hours

Presenter: McCall Lyon, PsyD

Target Audience:

• Direct care providers (e.g., caseworkers, childcare providers, court advocates, early interventionists, medical/mental health professionals, and teachers)
• Supervisors / agency leadership

Objectives:

• Identify typical sensory integration difficulties for young children and impact on functioning

• Learn how to assess for sensory deficits and when to make referrals for evaluations

Webinar Length: 60 minutes

Presenter: Veronica Love, PsyD

Target Audience:

• Early career providers / students
• Direct care providers (e.g., caseworkers, child care providers, court advocates, early interventionists, medical/mental health professionals, and teachers)

Objectives:

• To increase awareness of three critical areas of social and emotional health
• To increase understanding of how children’s social and emotional well-being impacts future functioning
• To increase application of strategies that foster healthy social and emotional development in young children

Webinar Length: 1 hour

Presenter: McCall Lyon, PsyD

Target Audience:

• Direct care providers (e.g., caseworkers, childcare providers, court advocates, early interventionists, medical/mental health professionals, and teachers)
• Supervisors / agency leadership

Objectives:

• Explore the potential impact of secondary trauma and chronic stressors on providers who work with young children and their families
• Define and discuss the benefits of self-reflection in addressing provider wellness, including developing an independent practice of self-reflection and engaging in reflective supervision/consultation

Webinar Length: 60 minutes

Presenter: McCall Lyon, PsyD

Target Audience:

• Direct care providers (e.g., caseworkers, childcare providers, court advocates, early interventionists, medical/mental health professionals, and teachers)
•  Supervisors / agency leadership

Objectives:

• Review common sleep problems seen in early childhood, associated risk factors, and behavioral correlates
• Consider multicultural lenses related to sleep practices and the role of caregiver preference in sleep routines
• Address methods of improving sleep in early childhood

Webinar Length: 2 hours

Presenter: McCall Lyon, PsyD

Target Audience:

• Direct care providers (e.g., caseworkers, childcare providers, court advocates, early interventionists, medical/mental health professionals, and teachers)
• Supervisors / agency leadership

Objectives:

• Identify potential influencing factors on children’s socioemotional development, as well as the functional impact that these experiences often have in specific areas of development
• Discuss interventions to support parents/caregivers and their children in the development of important social and emotional skills, using techniques that can be applied daily in a variety of settings

Webinar Length: 60 minutes

Presenter: Veronica Love, PsyD

Target Audience:

• Early career providers / students
• Group care providers (e.g., child care providers, group therapists, and teachers)
• Anyone engaging with families of young children

Objectives:

• Gain an understanding or infant-early childhood mental health
• Increase capacity to support the social and emotional development of infants and toddlers
• To make meaning of challenging behaviors in infants and toddlers

Webinar Length: 120 Minutes

Presenter: Veronica Love, PsyD 

Target Audience:

• Early career providers / students
• Direct care providers (e.g., caseworkers, childcare providers, court advocates, early interventionists, medical/mental health professionals, and teachers)

Objectives:

• Review attachment styles and how attachment is developed
• Identify interventions and activities that enhance attachment

Webinar Length: 90 minutes

Presenter: Veronica Love, PsyD

Target Audience:

• Early career providers / students
• Supervisors / agency leadership
• Group care providers (e.g., child care providers, group therapists, and teachers)

Objectives:

• To understand potentially traumatic experiences of young children and families
• To explore the behavioral communication of children who experience distress
• Gain strategies for supporting children with stress/trauma reactions in the group setting
• To expand understanding of secondary trauma/stress and the importance of self-care

Webinar Length: 60 minutes

Presenter: Veronica Love, PsyD

Target Audience:

• Early career providers / students
• Direct care providers (e.g., caseworkers, child care providers, court advocates, early interventionists, medical/mental health professionals, and teachers)

Objectives:

• Identify play can promote positive social, emotional, and behavioral development in children

• Identify how to incorporate play into therapy to promote positive parent-child interactions and improve treatment outcomes

Webinar Length: 90 minutes

Presenter: Veronica Love, PsyD

Target Audience:

• Early career providers / students
• Supervisors / agency leadership
• Group care providers (e.g., child care providers, group therapists, and teachers)

Objectives:

• To understand potentially traumatic experiences of young children and families
• To explore the behavioral communication of children who experience distress
• Gain strategies for supporting children with stress/trauma reactions in the group setting
• To expand understanding of secondary trauma/stress and the importance of self-care