We love hearing about your growing teams and virtual or drive-through events for families. This section is dedicated to the Network Show and Tell, where you can highlight and celebrate your team's incredible stories!
If you would like to share a highlight in our next newsletter, please contact Shelby Smith.
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Training Registration Station |
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We look forward to seeing you at our next training. Please save the dates for our upcoming trainings below!
If you have any questions about attendance and registration, please let us know.
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For training policies on attendance, make-ups, and cancellations, click here.
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First Steps 10 Year Anniversary Event |
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Please note: there is no OLS in September |
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Contact:
If you have any questions regarding the following, please contact Shelby Smith:
- Registration (Network & HFA Core Trainings)
- Prerequisites & Pre-Training Assignments
- Training Rosters
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Upcoming Webinars/Events/Trainings |
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This 14th Annual Early Childhood Mental Health Conference will inspire attendees to re-imagine prevention and early intervention and shift the focus to the role of positive experiences in human development.
Distinguished speakers, including keynote speaker, Dr. Robert Sege, will highlight community-driven, evidence-based interventions that have been developed, researched, implemented, and are making a difference.
See First Steps Presenters:
Thursday:
Pradeep Gidwani, First Steps Medical Director
Denise Von Rotz, Reflective Practice Facilitator
Friday:
Miriah de Matos, First Steps Training and TA Senior Manager
Michelle Favela, SBCS Program Director
Dates: September 28-30
**This conference's sessions count towards the Infant-Family and Early Childhood Endorsement
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This workshop will discuss two interrelated topics and their implications for clinical intervention: (1) parents’ prenatal impact on children’s brain-behavior development and (2) parents’ own psychosocial needs during the perinatal period, a time of immense change and neuroplasticity.
As an outcome of attending this webinar, participants will be able to:
- Gain competency in the concept that parenting begins before birth as parents’ experiences affect fetal brain-behavior development.
- Reconsider the prenatal period as a time of brain plasticity along with psychological adjustments
- Engage in active consideration of useful enhancements to prenatal care to promote optimal health for future families.
Date: Wednesday, September 27
Time: 7:30am-9:00am PT
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A workplace culture that prioritizes diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and psychological safety fosters a sense of belonging, encourages an understanding of the diverse needs of persons served, and increases the retention of passionate, competent staff.
By watching this webinar, you'll learn how to:
- Articulate the need for a diverse and inclusive healthcare workforce.
- Share strategies for creating psychologically safe work environments.
- Explain the impact of proper DEI and TIC initiatives on staff well-being and patient health.
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Head Start programs are skilled at establishing a strong network of community partnerships to support children, families, and staff. This video highlights the importance of partnering with community programs that have substance use treatment or recovery services. Learn how to begin conversations about making referrals to those services.
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Resources to Help Support Professionals |
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Creative Outreach (CO) is a key component of HFA services that ensures we individualize engagement and outreach for families. While being creative is fun it is sometimes confusing to know how to accurately count CO in the CMEDS database.
Let's walk through this visual which illustrates how to enter services in CMEDS when families start CO.
11/1-11/15
This Level 1 family missed two consecutive home visits on 11/8 and 11/15. The FSS entered “No Show” on both dates because the family was not responding to messages from the FSS to reschedule.
“Start CO (Creative Outreach)” was entered on 11/8, the date of the 1st missed visit.
11/22-12/6
The family completes home visits on 11/22, 11/29, and 12/6. Since the family completed at least 75% of the expected home visits for a Level 1 family, Level CO ends and the family returns to Level 1 on 12/6. Entering services in this sequence explains why families are put on Creative Outreach (no show, rescheduled by family/FSS). It also provides a picture of family engagement, when reviewing services in CMEDS.
Check in with your Supervisor for more questions on Creative Outreach and data entry!
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Resources to Help Support Families |
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Pregnancy, childbirth, and parenting bring dramatic changes to your life - and your emotional health.
While it can be an exciting and joyful time, the changes that accompany the perinatal period can also leave you feeling anxious, sad, guilty, overwhelmed, irritable, or unable to relax and enjoy your developing relationship with your baby and family.
All these reactions are normal, but they may also be signs and symptoms of a
Perinatal Mental Health & Wellbeing TOOLBOX:
My Mood - naming and communicating what I'm feeling
For more resources from the National Perinatal Association, click here
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Going back to school is exciting, but it’s often stressful for kids — and parents. From homework worries to separation anxiety, starting a new school year can be daunting. And getting back into the swing of things tends to be especially difficult for kids who have mental health or learning disorders.
Join leading children’s mental health experts in a special back-to-school webinar focusing on mental health and a successful transition back to the academic year.
Topics include:
1. Understand the signs and causes of back-to-school stress and anxiety
2. Simple steps parents can take to support their child’s transition back to school
3. How to know when a child’s behavior could indicate more than just “normal” fears and where to find help
4. How to build a "calm" morning routine
5. How to cope with your own stress and anxieties around back to school
Date: Thursday, September 7th
Time: 2:30pm
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Partners in Prevention has shared a few tips and tricks to help kids feel ready to jump back into school and to keep them safe and strong all year!
1. Try to get a good night’s sleep and eat a healthy breakfast!
2. Ask a trusted adult to help you get the school supplies you need!
3. Write down the important stuff (or have a trusted adult help you)!
4. Set out the things you need the night before!
5. Make sure you know how you’re getting to school and back home!
6. Learn Safety Rules
7. Learn what to do if a Safety Rule is broken!
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Building Resilience Through
Mindful Self-Regulation
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In this video, learn about the zones of regulation and how they apply to kids. Learn how to unlock the secret to self-regulation and help your toddler or kids learn how to regulate their emotions effectively.
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