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PRE-CONFERENCE
TRAINING SEMINARS
Saturday,
October 20, 2007
Note:
Separate registration fee for
each.
Evelyn
K. Moore Early Childhood
Leadership Institute
8:30
a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
 Culturally
Sensitive Mental Health
Assessment of Young Children:
Learning to Screen for
Adjustment Problems
Problem
behaviors and concerns about
the mental health of children
represent one of the most
serious and difficult
challenges facing early
childhood programs. Dr. Oscar
Barbarin of the Frank Porter
Graham Child Development
Institute, University of North
Carolina, has developed a
simple method early childhood
programs can use at the pre-k
level to screen problems of
self-regulation of attention,
behavior, language, and
emotions (ABLE). Through its
unique approach, ABLE offers
in culturally sensitive ways,
both a way to identify
problems as well as a way to
plan for preventive mental
health intervention.
This session provides training
in the use of the ABLE
and a discussion of
alternative approaches to
developing culturally
sensitive programs of early
detection and intervention for
developmental concerns in
early childhood.
For more information about
ABLE, visit www.abletest.com.
Presenter: Oscar A. Barbarin, Ph.D., The L. Richardson and Emily Preyer Bicentennial Distinguished Professor for Strengthening Families,
School of Social Work, Fellow, Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute, University of North Carolina
Fee:
$50.00
The
Evelyn K. Moore Early
Childhood Leadership Institute
is sponsored by the McCormick
Tribune Foundation
 Social-Emotional Development:
Strategies for Preparing
Children to Be Ready for
School
1:30
p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
“Strong,
early social-emotional
development underlies all
later academic success.”
Learn more about the
relationship between
social-emotional development
and education, by taking
advantage of this wonderful
opportunity to attend a
training session that will
prepare educators to support
and contribute to children's
resilience. The session will
address issues of the
social-emotional development
of infants, toddlers and
preschoolers from a cultural
perspective. Issues such as
school as a stressor, family
cultural and linguistic
identity, and comprehensive
mental screenings for young
children will be discussed.
Participants will receive
practical tools and
strategies to strengthen
what they are currently
doing to help children be
ready for school.
Trainers:
Lisa
Gordon and Sarah Semlak, NBCDI Consultants,
Washington,
DC
Fee:
$175.00, includes a copy of
the School Readiness and
Social Emotional
Development: Perspectives on
Cultural Diversity
publication
CEU's
will be available for each
Training Seminar.
Parent
Empowerment (PEP)
Facilitator Training
1:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
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You
are invited to
take advantage
of this
excellent
opportunity to
become a Parent
Empowerment
Project (PEP)
facilitator
through an
intensive,
interactive
training
seminar.
Experience
this
training to
become
prepared to
implement the PEP
curriculum and
provide the
parents you
serve with a
unique, parent
driven,
culturally
relevant
approach to
parent
education and
empowerment.
Participants
will review
child
development
knowledge,
explore values
and attitudes
while
strengthening
facilitation
skills.
In
addition,
participants
will become
familiar with
the array of
topics
featured in
the Successful
Parenting module;
learn how to
“weave the
story” to
reinforce the
lessons using
the African
American
Culture and
Latino Culture
modules;
and build
parents’
self esteem as
well as
cultural
awareness.
Fee:
$175.00,
includes a
copy of the PEP
curriculum.
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