Webinars

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:

• Identify common toileting problems in young children, risk factors, and impact on children’s behavior

• Learn basic strategies for toilet training to implement in family therapy

• Learn how to accommodate cultural preferences when making recommendations to improve toilet training

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: 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: 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: 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: 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

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: 60 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:

• 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: 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: 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:

• Identify and understand how to conceptualize presenting issues in current cases through a multicultural lens.

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:

• 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: 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: 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:

• 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: 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:

• 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: 1 hour

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:

• 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

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

Presenter: Cynthia Palacios-Gutierrez, 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).
• 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

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: 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: 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: 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

Presenter: Cynthia Palacios- Gutierrez, 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).
• 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: 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: 1 hour

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:

• 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: 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: 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

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: 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:

• Learn how to recognize behaviors which may elevate to self harm or suicide and underlying issues that may need to be addressed.

• Learn how to intervene with these behaviors and identify when to refer to higher levels of care.

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

Presenter: Colleen Macklin , MS CCC-SLP presented by Samantha Smith PsyD

Webinar Length: 1 hour

Target Audience:

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

Objectives:

• ​-Define and describe expectations for typical speech and language development in the 0-5 population

• -Understand the difference between a speech and language disorder
• -Describe the risk factors for speech and language delays and disorders

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: 2 hours

Presenter: Veronica Love, 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: 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: 1 hour

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:

• 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

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:

• 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: 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: 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 an understanding of executive functioning skills, their importance, and development across the lifespan, with an emphasis on what it means for development of these skill sets in the preschool years

• Gain practical skills on how to strengthen areas of executive functioning skills in preschool children

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 2 hours

Presenter: Kimberli Berrett, CMHC

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: 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: 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: 1 hour

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:

• Learn how to recognize behaviors which may elevate to self harm or suicide and underlying issues that may need to be addressed.

• Learn how to intervene with these behaviors and identify when to refer to higher levels of care.

Presenter: Veronica Love, 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).
• 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: 1 hour

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:

• 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

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:

• 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: 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:

• 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