Webinars

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: 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
• 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:

•  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: 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: 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: 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: 1 hour
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:

•  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: 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: 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 impact of intergenerational poverty on child health and development outcomes
• Identify specific ways that current and historical patterns of structural racism have impacted intergenerational poverty.

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: 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 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: 60 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

Presenter: Tiffany Perry, Community Coordinator - Safe Babies Court Team
Webinar Length: 1 hour
Target Audience:

• Child welfare workers
•  Child advocates (e.g., GAL, CASA)
•  Mental healthcare providers
•  Supervisors and agency leadership
•  Anyone engaging with families with young children involved in child welfare

Objectives:

•  Increase awareness of the importance of mental health and attachment in early childhood, particularly for children engaged in child welfare
• Discuss opportunities for growth within the Safe Babies Court Team approach

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: 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: 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: 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

Presenter: Jennifer Mitchell, PhD, BCBA-D
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: 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

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: 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: 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: 1 hour
Presenter: Kyle Smith,MD & 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:

•  Recognize injury and neglect in young children related to maltreatment.
•  Learn how to handle child and family disclosures.
•  Categorizing normal and abnormal child sexual behaviors.
•  Understanding the psychological effects of maltreatment on the child.
• Understand the supportive role of the therapist.

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:

•  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

Presenter: Jennifer Mitchell, PhD, BCBA-D
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: 2 hours
Presenter: McCall Lyon, 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: 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 expressions
• 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: 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:

• 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: 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:

• 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

Presenter: Colleen Macklin , MS CCC-SLP
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)
•  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
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: 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: 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: 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: 2 Hours
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: 1 hour
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:

•  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: Jennifer Mitchell, PhD, BCBA-D
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:

•  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: Samantha Smith Psy D
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: 1.5 Hours
Presenter: McCall Lyon, PsyD & 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:

•  Learn about associated risk and protective factors that impact refugee families’ wellbeing
• Identify best practices and possible treatment barriers to consider when working with refugee families
• Review cultural considerations that are important to explore while working with refugee families

Presenter: Colleen Macklin , MS CCC-SLP
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: 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: 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: 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: Sara Johnson LCSW & 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: 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 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: 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:

•  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