Community Offerings
Events
C.P.R: Connect, Prepare, Respond — Supporting Conversations with Young Children About Family Separation
In times of uncertainty and heightened fear around unexpected or anticipated family separations, children and families benefit from trusted adults who can offer care, stability, and reassurance. This interactive workshop offers space to reflect, connect, and explore age-appropriate communication approaches. Participants will be introduced to tools, resources, and considerations that can support thoughtful conversations with
C.P.R: Connect, Prepare, Respond — Supporting Conversations with Young Children About Family Separation
In times of uncertainty and heightened fear around unexpected or anticipated family separations, children and families benefit from trusted adults who can offer care, stability, and reassurance. This interactive workshop offers space to reflect, connect, and explore age-appropriate communication approaches. Participants will be introduced to tools, resources, and considerations that can support thoughtful conversations with
Reimagining Developmental Screening Tools: Adapting with Cultural Curiosity
This workshop is tailored to home visitors who routinely administer developmental screenings (ASQ, ASQ-SE, etc.). In our discussion, early childhood development is adaptive to the child’s relational and cultural contexts. We will engage in reflection and discussion about the challenges of centering the parent-child relationship while administering developmental screening. We will learn to flex our
Understanding Infant Cues, Regulation, Behavior and States
Understanding Infants is a research-based program for professionals that provides essential information on newborn and infant behavior. Learn • Infants amazing ability to interact and engage in relationships • Infants’ internal states and how that influences their behavior • How to help infants regulate • Read infant cues This course is a mixture of video
Promoting First Relationships
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
Regulation and Self-Regulation. How regulation works for children and adults, and what it looks like in practice.
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
P-5 Learning & Connection Hour: Parent powered programs at El Centro de la Raza
Join this one-hour virtual session to learn about the Parent Power Pathway, empowering parents to lead with lived experience. Participants will hear why parent powered programs are successful, and how lived experience informs the program and empowers them to become leaders. You will learn how to support parents completing the program who are ready to
Caregiver-Child Behavioral Synchrony in Positive Contexts
A key developmental task of the first years of a child’s life is establishing child self-regulatory abilities. Biobehavioral synchrony or the extent to which the caregiver and child coordinate and match their vocalizations, affect, body movements, and touch as well as their physiological and neural responses during face-to-face interactions is theorized to support the development
Caregiver-Child Biobehavioral Synchrony in Positive Contexts
A key developmental task of the first years of a child’s life is establishing child self-regulatory abilities. Biobehavioral synchrony or the extent to which the caregiver and child coordinate and match their vocalizations, affect, body movements, and touch as well as their physiological and neural responses during face-to-face interactions is theorized to support the development
Expressing Artful Insights about Art Works: Sharing Authority with Children to Curate an Exhibition Depicting their Ancestors and their Home
Join in celebrating the final week of “Tell Clyfford I Said ‘Hi’”: An Exhibition Curated by Children of the Colville Confederated Tribes, on display at the Clyfford Still Museum in Denver, Colorado. Co-curated with young people (ages 3 to 14) from the Colville Confederated Tribes in Washington State, the exhibition demonstrates both the potential of
Behavior and Belonging: Race, Innocence, and Restorative Justice in Early Childhood
VirtualThis two-part professional learning series explores how assumptions about race, innocence, and ability shape adult responses to children’s behavior and contribute to exclusion and pushout in early childhood settings. In the first session, participants examine how innocence is unevenly granted, how compliance-based practices and micro-interactions escalate conflict, and how adult bias and adultification influence the interpretation
Mom’s Access Project ECHO Session on Perinatal Psychosis
Moms’ Access Project ECHO (MAP ECHO): Perinatal Mental Health & Substance Use Case Conference Series is a 10-session CME-accredited program for providers in Washington State who want to care for their perinatal patients’ substance use and mental health. The series is facilitated by a multidisciplinary team including UW Medicine perinatal psychiatrists, obstetrician-gynecologists, maternal-fetal medicine experts,
