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.