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Length: 12 hour/s (2 days)
Course
Cost: $375.00 members
$425.00 non-members
Course
Number:
MH122
Course
Description: This
training is designed to provide teaching staff,
home visitors, family service workers, managers,
as well as consultants with a process of
reflecting on their own practice, assessing
difficult situations and designing interventions
through collaborative problem solving.
This training will help staff understand
mental health, so they can design and implement
practices that support the mental wellness in
children and families in their program.
Participants will learn strategies on how to develop
a system for gathering information from a variety of
sources,
identify when and how to seek appropriate support,
identify situations for which contingency plans
are needed develop
strategies to promote resiliency with families,
children and communities, plan activities that
improve the
fit between temperament
and environment, assess your program's mental
health service plans to determine how well it
supports requirements, implement ways of observing
and recording behavioral issues in the classroom
and meet the federal mandates as it relates to
mental health.
Prerequisite: None
Learning Objectives: Upon completion, you will be able to:
· Build and support nurturing relationships to promote healthy social and
emotional development
· Develop strategies to promote resiliency within Head Start children,
families and communities
· Define mental health as a positive attribute rather than as the absence
of mental illness.
Target Audience: This course is designed for coordinators of health services, Directors,
Disabilities services managers, family service
managers and health services managers.
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