Challenging Behaviors and Beyond: A Monthly Series for Head Start Programs and Consultants Georgetown University's Thrive Center is hosting a free monthly series to strengthen this resilient community and help your staff learn how to deal with challenging behaviors. Each session features national experts delivering practical, research-backed strategies and a Head Start program from somewhere

Challenging Behaviors and Beyond: A Monthly Series for Head Start Programs and Consultants Georgetown University's Thrive Center is hosting a free monthly series to strengthen this resilient community and help your staff learn how to deal with challenging behaviors. Each session features national experts delivering practical, research-backed strategies and a Head Start program from somewhere

Disabled children are whole. Disabled children are powerful. Disabled children are worthy of unconditional love and unwavering respect. The implicit and explicit messages that we send about disability have important consequences for young children’s developing identities and their sense of belonging. When disability is consistently framed as a deficit, a problem in need of intervention,

This community meeting will share key findings and recommendations from Washington’s Maternal Mortality Review Panel Report: Maternal Deaths 2021–2022. Presenters from the Washington State Department of Health will provide an overview of maternal mortality trends, leading causes of pregnancy-related deaths, disparities, preventability, and the Panel’s priority recommendations to improve maternal health outcomes. The session will

From birth, infants engage in rich social interactions that rely on both verbal cues (e.g., caregiver speech) and nonverbal signals (e.g., body odors). My research examines how early multisensory social input shapes social brain development and supports later language outcomes. In earlier work, I investigated social chemosignaling in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Using subliminal presentation

Supporting Trust and Exploration in Reflective Supervision/Consultation A Training for Home Visiting Supervisors and Consultants August 20, 2026 9 – 12 pm Pacific Time / 12 -3 pm Eastern Time via Zoom 3 CEs available Why Attend? Reflective Supervision is the heart of relational practice. This training will help you create supervisory spaces that foster

Part 1 of 4 | Virtual Sessions via Zoom | CEU's Approved   This Program has been approved for 2 CEUs for Licensed Social Workers, Mental Health Counselors and Marriage and Family Therapists by the Washington State Society for Clinical Social Work. This is an ongoing series of workshops tailored to home visitors who routinely administer

Head Start programs are dealing with escalating behaviors, stretched staff, and not enough support. In our conversations with staff around the country, we heard words like fried, overwhelmed, exhausted. But also, words like resilient, hopeful, community. Georgetown University's Thrive Center is hosting a free monthly series to strengthen this resilient community and help your staff

What is the FAN? The FAN is a mental framework and practical tool developed for professionals working with families. It helps you attune to the caregivers you work with, stay grounded, and deepens your reflective practice. It supports the parallel process and protects against burnout. The FAN is also an effective approach in supervisory and

PFR is an evidence-based home visiting program for parents and young children, birth to five. We use a reflective parenting strategy that supports parents in their unique relationship with their child. We use video observation to facilitate reflection and provide strengths-based feedback. We help parents see how they can support their child’s emotional health using