BRAIN POWER!: is an exciting workshop that talks about brain development during the earliest years of life and provides specific ideas providers can use during daily activities. Brain Power! uses state-of-the-art audio-visuals, classroom exercises, and group discussion to provide a brief overview of early brain development research, a review of the importance of early experiences, and a discussion of the role of the child care provider in providing developmentally appropriate experiences. An excellent session for any provider caring for children under the age of four!
Exploring the World of Infants and Toddlers: a highly interactive, 18-hour course which is an excellent orientation to the world of children 0-3, focusing on their normal growth and development. In addition to more traditional topics, participants gain an understanding of the attachment process, learn how to work with parents of young children and to facilitate parent-infant relationships, and explore temperament styles. Participants also have an opportunity to share their experiences, discuss ways to help children from birth to age three grow and thrive, and view the latest audiovisual materials.
Minimizing Stress While Maximizing Quality Care to Infants and Toddlers: a six-hour course that explores the sources of stress particular to caring for children birth through age three as well as sources of stress that apply to the wider population. Through discussion, provision of information, and sharing of tools, this course will offer childcare providers support and specific strategies for preventing and coping with the most common sources of stress.
Essential Connections: Making the Parent - Caregiver Partnership Work: a six-hour course that explores the significance of parent/caregiver relationships in the first three years of a child’s life and responds to the common pitfalls. This interactive session will provide practical tools for working together while giving participants the opportunity to share their experiences and find solutions to universal questions.
The Challenging Child: a six-hour course to help individuals who work with young children identify some of the causes of 'challenging' behavior in the infant and toddler and to examine different ways of managing it. In a lecture/audiovisual/discussion format, participants will also explore the parent/provider relationship to support the development of the child.
Beyond Time-Out: Behavior Management for Infants and Toddlers. This is a six-hour course designed to assist care providers in their efforts to help very young children manage their behavior. Participants explore the appropriateness of discipline for children birth through age three, the importance of ensuring positive discipline that does not negatively impact on self-esteem, and methods of effective and sensitive discipline. In an interactive format, this course will enable providers to establish behavior management “best practices” in their own environment.
More Than Just a Room -- Infant and Toddler Environments: a six-hour course that uses case studies and hands-on experience to learn how to problem-solve using the environment. Participants learn inexpensive means of designing a developmentally appropriate environment that reduces stress, helps with behavior management, and makes the most of limited space. Participants will have an opportunity to explore and discuss their own settings and redesign them to better suit their needs.
The Amazing Newborn: a three-hour seminar that explores with participants the fascinating period of birth to three months of life, helps ease some of the fear of caring for a baby, assists with incorporating newborns into mixed-age groups, and helps providers enjoy their time with young infants. Issues and strategies for strengthening the parent-infant-provider bond, which is so essential to optimum care, will also be addressed.
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Workshops Available from Friends of the Family