| Children's Enrichment Enterprises, Inc Early Childhood Professional Development |
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| For Parents; For Parents & Staff; For Staff - Six 2-Hour Modules Printable Info Page The Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning (CSEFEL) has developed an evidence-based, user-friendly parent training series of six 2-hour sessions to help professionals working with parents promote positive and effective parenting behaviors, which will in turn promote children’s social and emotional development and address the challenging behavior and mental health needs of children in Center-based child care and Head Start programs. “Positive Solutions for Families” provides information for families on how to promote children’s social and emotional skills, understand their problem behavior, and use positive approaches to help children learn appropriate behavior. These trainings are designed to give parents general information on key strategies that may be used with all children. Sessions are not designed to offer parents specific advice for their child’s individual issues. Session 1 Making a Connection! – 2.0 hours Community (Building relationships, quality time, positive comments and Encouragement) – Objectives include: • Discuss the purpose of the group and the importance of social-emotional development for young children. • Meet each other and learn about our families. • Discuss goals and ground rules we might have for our group. • Identify the importance of building positive relationships with children. • Discuss the “power” of using positive comments and encouragement with children. Session 2 Making It Happen! – 2.0 hours Community (Play as a powerful parenting practice, supporting the development of friendship skills, encouraging positive behavior) Objectives Include: • Discuss Things to Try at Home from previous session and link to the importance of supporting social-emotional development. • Understand how play can be a powerful parenting practice. • Learn ways to help children develop friendship skills. • Link building relationships, using positive comments/encouragement, and play to children’s behavior. Session 3 Why Do They Do What They Do? – 2.0 hours Community (Determining the meaning of behavior, making expectations clear, developing and teaching household rules) Objectives Include: • Examine why children do what they do. • Practice ways to determine the meaning of behavior. • Understand how to make expectations clear for children. • Understand effective ways to develop and teach household rules. Session 4 Teach Me What to Do! – 2.0 hours Community (Emotional vocabulary, managing anger and handling disappointment, problem solving) Objectives Include: • Define the concept of emotional vocabulary. • Identify feeling words and identify effective ways to teach feeling vocabulary. • Demonstrate the use of books to support emotional vocabulary and social-emotional development. • Identify how the turtle technique can be used to cope with feelings of anger and disappointment. • Learn how to teach problem-solving skills. Session 5 Facing the Challenge, Part 1 – 2.0 hours Community (Strategies to promote positive behavior) Objectives Include: • Examine specific strategies that can be used to promote positive adult and child behavior in home and community settings. Session 6 Facing the Challenge, Part 2 – 2.0 hours Community (Problem solving, challenging behavior, and everyday routines) Objectives Include: • Identify that problem behavior has meaning. • Identify the meaning of behavior by examining what happens before and after the problem behavior. • Identify the three parts of a behavior plan: preventions, new skills to teach, and new responses. • Learn to use the Family Routine Guide to identify supports for use with children during daily routines. FEE = $20 per person per 2-hour Module. Your Location: This CSEFEL Training can be offered at your location for a minimum fee of $400 for up to 20 (parents) trainees. |
