Webinars

Webinar Length: 2 hours

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: 1 hour

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: 60 minutes

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 development of skills that support perspective-taking, as well as research regarding potential differences in development 
• Identify strategies and activities, many of which can be integrated into daily interactions, that support the growth of children’s perspective-taking abilities

Webinar Length: 2 hours

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 common developmental timelines and potential impacts on that developmental trajectory.
• Provide skills to support parents/caregivers and their children in the development of important social and emotional skills, many of which can be integrated daily into even the most basic caregiver/child interactions.

Webinar Length: 1 hour

Target Audience:

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

Objectives:

• Learn about how domestic violence impacts young children and how to screen for exposure 
• Learn how to empower caregivers to support young children exposed to domestic violence

Webinar Length: 60 minutes

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: 60 minutes

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: 2 hours

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

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

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 regarding children’s responses to parental conflict before and after a separation 
• Discuss ways to support resiliency in children and caregivers during the separation / divorce process 
• Identify when an outside referral may be warranted to more formal co-parenting classes / resources

Webinar Length: 120 Minutes

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: 1 hour

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

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 activities and approaches that can be used to support the ongoing development of healthy eating habits
• Discuss potential interventions designed to support children who are already showing signs of picky eating and/or food aversion

Webinar Length: 60 minutes

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 basic psychoeducation regarding maternal mental health and the impacts from prenatal to postpartum
• Discuss possible impacts of maternal mental health on developing infant
• Identify resources and treatment to support maternal mental health

Webinar Length: 1 hour

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 activities and approaches that can be used to support the ongoing development of healthy eating habits
• Discuss potential interventions designed to support children who are already showing signs of picky eating and/or food aversion

Webinar Length: 60 minutes

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 basic psychoeducation regarding maternal mental health and the impacts from prenatal to postpartum
• Discuss possible impacts of maternal mental health on developing infant
• Identify resources and treatment to support maternal mental health

Webinar Length: 1 hour

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: 1 hour

Target Audience:

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

Objectives:

• Learn about how domestic violence impacts young children and how to screen for exposure 
• Learn how to empower caregivers to support young children exposed to domestic violence

Webinar Length: 60 minutes

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

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 definition of play and why play is important Understand milestones of typical play development
• Review tips for playing to enhance speech and language development

Webinar Length: 2 hours

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

Target Audience:

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

Objectives:

• Utilize research-backed foundations in behaviorism and social learning theory to support socioemotional growth
• Identify direct interventions that group environments can use to help to support the healthy development of young children’s social and emotional skills

Webinar Length: 1 hour

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: 1 hour

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 activities and approaches that can be used to support the ongoing development of healthy eating habits
• Discuss potential interventions designed to support children who are already showing signs of picky eating and/or food aversion

Webinar Length: 60 minutes

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