This is an online Training.
Strong from the Start, presents content and activities that we hope will guide your work with very young children. We hope it will add to your capacities and strengths as you care for children and yourselves, whether in a home, child care center, or anywhere you support children.
Throughout this session and the following ones in the training, you will accomplish the following:
1.Identify and build upon strengths to manage stress reactions, behaviors and emotional impact on children
2.Build knowledge of child development in the early years and how young children communicate through behavior.
3.Increase knowledge on how adult reactions, behaviors and emotions can have an impact on children’s reactions to distressing experiences.
4.Expand knowledge on the impacts of stress and adverse experiences on the development of young children, prenatally to age 5.
5.Review tools and techniques to effectively support young children and families.