PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
CRYC offers training for professionals that increases knowledge of the internal and environmental factors that impact resiliency and social emotional wellness of children and families.
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Family Wellness
Families often experience challenges and adversity. Protective Factors are the attributes that buffer families from stress and promote the resiliency needed for families to effectively overcome obstacles, remain hopeful and draw from supports in times of need.
+ Promoting the Protective Factors: Self-Paced Online Course
This is a self-paced, online course. To register, please visit: https://growingresilientfamilies.com/
Protective factors are characteristics that promote family wellness and ensure families are well-positioned to overcome challenges. This training reviews the Strengthening Protective Factors Families framework and provides practical strategies for implementing six protective factors in programs serving families with young children. This training supplements the Meet Me Where I Am workbook developed by the Resilient Children and Families Program (RCFP).
In this course, we will cover:
- Introduction to RCFP and CYRC
- Introduction to Protective Factors
- Protective Factors Framework:
- Social and Emotional Competence of Children
- Nurturing and Attachment
- Knowledge of Parenting and Child Development
- Social Connections
- Parental Resilience
- Concrete Support in Times of Need
+ Strengthening Protective Factors for Families
- Reviews the Strengthening Families Protective Factors framework developed by the Center for the Study of Social Policy. This 2.5 hour training provides practical universal and targeted strategies for advancing six protective factors that when in place ensure families have access to the supports and resources needed to overcome challenges and remain hopeful. Available in-person or through virtual instructor led session.
+ Promoting Family Wellness
- Resilient families are able to overcome daily challenges, create solutions and remain hopeful. This 2 hour session reviews the sources and impact of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) or stress on family and child wellness and provides a deeper understanding of factors that influence resilience and strategies for promoting self-care. Available in-person or through virtual instructor led session.
+ Families Thrive
- Applies the Strengthening Families Protective Factors Framework to the entire family lifespan to include adolescents, and young adults. This training reviews 6 foundational practices that help to promote protective factors for parents, children, and youth. This 5 hour session explores types and impact of stress and looks at inclusive strategies practitioners can use to promote resiliency and initiate healing for families and youth experiencing trauma or adversity. Available in-person or through virtual instructor led session.
Family Engagement
Working alongside families, valuing their resourcefulness, and understanding their desires is critical to promoting family wellness. Engaging families requires practitioners to develop an understanding of their biases and expectations so that they can deplore strategies that are inviting and responsive.
+ Nurturing Family Resilience and Wellness: Self-Paced Online Course
This is a self-paced, online course. To register, please visit: https://growingresilientfamilies.com/
More and more families are experiencing adversity and stress, and early childhood professionals are well-positioned to help families overcome their challenges. This training explores values and perceptions related to parenting. It provides strategies for early childhood professionals to create effective partnerships with parents, respond to their needs, and promote their resilience. This training is designed to supplement the Meet Me Where I Am workbook developed by the Resilient Children and Families Program (RCFP).
In this course, we will cover:
- Introduction to RCFP and CYRC
- Principles of Effective Family Engagement
- The Ladder of Inference
- Building Effective Parent Partnerships
- Strategies for Building Effective Partnerships
+ Building Relationships with Families – Parent Engagement 1
- Explores individual’s values of parenting and how these values can lead to bias or acceptance of parents. This 2.5 hour training increases awareness of the development of these values and strategies for engaging and honoring the values and choices of families. Available in-person or through virtual instructor led session.
+ Creating Partnerships with Families – Parent Engagement 2
- Expands on the diversity of parents values and provides strategies to support partnerships with parents while understanding their beliefs, attitudes, and perspectives. This 2.5 hour training is available in-person or through virtual instructor led session. (Building Relationships with Families – Parent Engagement 1 is a per-requisite for this session).
+ Having Difficult Conversations with Families
- Reviews strategies for managing conversations with parents that matter. This 2.5 hour training provides opportunities to practice skills to resolve conflicts, encourage open dialogue and implement shared decision-making. Available in-person or through virtual instructor led session.
The Consortium for Resilient Young Children offers programming that has been an incredible asset to our school! Our coach is amazing in all her support and communication to help our families and teachers in the classroom. I truly appreciate the second set of eyes as the Center Director and honestly could not have made it through these past years without the support. Thank you for all you do!!
Children’s Social Emotional Wellness
Children rely on adults to teach them how to build positive relationships and effectively manage their feelings.
+ Nurturing Children’s Social-Emotional Wellness: Self-Paced Online Course
This is a self-paced, online course. To register, please visit: https://growingresilientfamilies.com/
Young children rely on caring adults and positive environments to develop positive relationships and understand their feelings and behaviors. This training provides strategies for helping families and children connect their behavior to their feelings and thoughts. Through empathy, co-regulation, and wondering with children, early childhood professionals learn effective ways to respond to children, avoid crises, and promote their social-emotional well-being. This training is designed to supplement the Meet Me Where I Am workbook developed by the Resilient Children and Families Program (RCFP).
In this course, we will cover:
- Introduction to RCFP and CYRC
- What is Social-Emotional Wellness?
- Creating a Supportive Environment
- Attuning to the Inner Child
- Helping Children Cope
- Partnering With Parents
+ Creating Supportive Environments
- How children experience their environment can greatly influence their ability to form positive relationships or manage their feelings. This 2.5 hour training explores how consistency, routines and a nurturing environment can foster feelings of attachment, safety, and self-regulation in young children. Available in-person or through virtual instructor led session.
+ Attuning to the Inner Child
- By “tuning –in” to the social and emotional inner world of young children, practitioners foster resilience by recognizing and supporting children’s feelings of mastery and competence. This 2.5 hour training explores how “being attuned” can foster feelings of attachment, initiative, and self-regulation in young children. Available in-person or through virtual instructor led session.
+ Responding to Families In Crisis
- Children often experience “big” feelings as they struggle to manage changes or stress in their environment. By offering specific strategies for responding to children in crisis, this 2.5 hour training helps practitioners with the use of play and home-based strategies that help children feel nurtured and safe. (Play strategies taught are referred to as CARE: Child Adult Relationship Enhancement.) Available in-person.
Resilient Children and Families Practices
More and more families and children in our region are experiencing stress and adversity. The use of two-gen practices that help families heal and foster their resilience can mitigate the long-term negative impacts of this stress.
+ Parent Café Coordinator Training
- Strengthening Families’ Parent Cafés promote family resilience and wellness as families build networks of support needed to cope with day-to-day challenges and ongoing stress. This training reviews the essential components and roles of the SF Parent Café coordinator. Provides tools and resources needed to facilitate Parent Cafés within communities or organizations. Delivered through three 3-hour sessions, participants increase their knowledge of Strengthening Families café model and develop a plan for engaging families. Available through a blend of in-person and through virtual instructor led sessions.
For more information, please visit https://growingresilientfamilies.com
+ Motivational Interviewing
- Explores the impact of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and multi-generational trauma on family and child wellness. This 6-hour training reviews ways to assess and promote wellness through screening for stress and resilience. Through the use of empathetic responses and relationship-building, practitioners learn ways to engage families in meaningful conversations designed to understand the source of their stress and set goals or plans to lessen this stress by connecting families to desired resources and supports. Available in-person.
For more information, please visit https://growingresilientfamilies.com
Community of Learners- Integrating the Resilient Children and Families Model (RCFP) into Your Practice
More and more families are experiencing adversity and stress, and early childhood professionals are well-positioned to help families overcome their challenges. This community of learners explores 2-Gen best practices advanced through the Resilient Children and Families program, which have been shown to effectively promote the social and emotional wellness of children and the resilience of the adults who care for them. Each session of the 6-part community of learners series provides practical strategies for 1) responding to children by attuning to their social-emotional needs and 2) supporting family wellness through the promotion of practice factors.
+ 6-part Community of Learners online training
To register, please visit: https://growingresilientfamilies.com/
Creating a Supportive Environment
- Provides an overview and concrete strategies for establishing trusting relationships and a welcoming space that is safe, nurturing, and responsive to the needs of each child and their family.
Maintaining a Supportive Environment
- Maintaining a supportive environment: Facilitates professionals’ understanding of the critical roles that planning, preparation, and presence play in building effective partnerships with families and promoting the social and emotional development of young children.
Partnering with Parents
- Focuses on daily strategies professionals can use to build strong parent partnerships and promote healthy parent-child relationships, which are key to children’s emotional, social, and cognitive development. Valuing the parent-child bond empowers parents as experts on their child and enables professionals to better support each child’s needs.
Being Attuned to the Inner Child
- Promotes the understanding that children’s behaviors are often the way that children communicate their thoughts and feelings and provides strategies for creating an empathetic space that helps children identify and manage feelings.
Helping Children and Families Cope in Difficult Situations
- Offers an overview and strategic approaches to assist children and families in identifying methods to overcome challenges, encourage initiative/hopefulness, and access concrete support through resource sharing and collaborative problem-solving.
Demonstrating Professional Practice and Resilience
- Presents approaches including coaching, self-reflection, and self-care, which are essential for enhancing job performance and ensuring that professionals are well-positioned to respond to the ever-growing needs of children and families.
