This module focuses on the importance of relationships for supporting providers in their work with children. The emphasis in the module is around using the visit to the family child care home as an opportunity to get to know the provider and see their interactions with children. Strategies for support specialists to build a relationship with a provider, as well as how the relationship supports goal setting, collaboration, and addressing challenges are included in this module.

Note: there are no CEUs for this module and it will not be sent to your Gateways PDR.

A panel of Erikson and community experts lead a discussion around the role of reflective practice in relationship-based work focused on family child care support specialists. This webinar overviews research around the role of relationships and reflective practice and discusses the power of this type of approach for specialists in supporting family child care providers.

Note: there are no CEUs for this module and it will not be sent to your Gateways PDR.

Hear from experts and join your colleagues from around the country for an interactive webinar on examining the importance of supporting family child care providers in understanding and communicating with families around children’s social emotional development and challenging behaviors.

Learning objectives

This webinar is targeted to agency and program support staff who work with family child care providers in their homes.

• Participants will learn why attention to social emotional development is central to working with family child care providers, and how to help providers use the lens of social emotional development to understand children’s behaviors and what they communicate

• Participants will gain understanding about how to work with providers around challenging child behaviors.

• Participants will recognize the importance of relationships within the context of social emotional development and behavior

• Participants will learn about the value of examining their own perspectives on child development and behavior, and how the importance of supporting the provider as the provider might support the child and family

Note: there are no CEUs for this module and it will not be sent to your Gateways PDR.

The focus of this module is on trauma in children and why it is important for support specialists and family child care providers to have knowledge about this topic. The module raises awareness of how to recognize signs and symptoms of trauma, how it impacts health, and focuses on the support that professionals working with FCC providers need to incorporate self-care and recovery activities and strategies into their practice.

Note: there are no CEUs for this module and it will not be sent to your Gateways PDR.

This module focuses on the importance of social emotional development from the prenatal period through childhood, increasing understanding of behavior as communication, and understanding how behavior and social emotional development are linked together.   At the foundation is the importance of trusting relationships when communicating around children’s challenging emotions and behaviors.

Note: there are no CEUs for this module and it will not be sent to your Gateways PDR.

Hear from experts and join your colleagues from around the country for an interactive webinar on examining the importance of supporting family child care providers in understanding and communicating with families around children’s social emotional development and challenging behaviors.

Note: there are no CEUs for this module and it will not be sent to your Gateways PDR.

This module focuses on supporting staff in reflecting on cultural issues and perspectives that may arise in their work with FCC providers. You will work with staff to better understand how culture affects child-rearing values and to recognize that cultural differences can lead to dilemmas and conflict.

Note: there are no CEUs for this module and it will not be sent to your Gateways PDR.

Hear from experts and join your colleagues from around the country for an interactive webinar on examining provider perspectives on engaging in quality improvement systems and state-level examples of effective professional development and support strategies for including family child care providers in state-wide quality improvement efforts.

Note: there are no CEUs for this module and it will not be sent to your Gateways PDR.

This module discusses the benefits and challenges family child care providers might encounter when working with children of mixed-ages. In addition, it focuses on the home visitor’s perception of working with mixed-age groups and ways to engage in conversation with providers around this topic.

Note: there are no CEUs for this module and it will not be sent to your Gateways PDR.

This module focuses on provider engagement as a collaborative dialogical process that enables us to go deeply into the provider’s experience, explore our own reactions, and imagine new perspectives. We also explore the power of empathy for joining with providers and the potential of asking questions for developing shared meaning.

Note: there are no CEUs for this module and it will not be sent to your Gateways PDR.