Increase the quality of your family support program by honing your ability to use triadic interactions during home visiting. Coaching parent child interactions leads to a higher quality home visit and results in more positive child outcomes. This will be a more comprehensive skill building session for professionals who already understand the basics of coaching parent child interaction.
Connections Matter is a community effort. We want everyone to know that fostering caring relationships with the children, families, and adults in your life matters for developing healthy brains, supportive relationships, and thriving communities. Through an interactive, discussion-based curriculum this workshop develops knowledge surrounding the importance of trauma informed practices in mitigating negative physical and mental health outcomes by focusing on how to build relationships and resilience.
Blending his personal story of school trauma and learning resiliency with his work through UCLA‘s All Children Thrive Initiative to mitigate trauma and optimize child well-being, Jonathan will share research-based best practices to build child, family, and community resiliency.
The panel experts will share their experiences creating an open, accepting, compassionate health care system for LBGTQ persons and lead the audience in steps to build change into their work environments.
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Through the use of the OUCH! That Stereotype Hurts Curriculum, participants will be introduced to helpful strategies. The Ouch program will identify the most common reasons people sit silently in the face of bias and stereotypes. Specifically, speakers will demonstrate six techniques to use when responding to di
This workshop will explain the signs, symptoms, and pathophysiology. The presenter will discuss developmental risk factors and prognosis. The workshop will address competencies required for ITMHCA Endorsement for Culturally Sensitive, Relationship Focused Practice Promoting Infant Mental Health at Levels 2, 3 & 4.
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Our session will engage family service professionals with the resources available to them through ISU Extension. Using an interactive presentation style based in adult learning science, this session will help professionals make decisions about how they can tap into these resources to make their job easier. Session participants will explore the Science of Parenting website and discover new educational resources, as well as dive into how to use Stop. Breathe. Talk. technique in practice.
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What is your body telling you about how you are managing the stress of your work? Are you able to sleep? Are you ever forgetful or have trouble focusing? Maybe you snap at people in anger or feel pretty pessimistic about things when you never used to be that way. Perhaps the ways you’ve found to cope are not healthy and will be detrimental to your long-term well-being. We’ll explore and experience a variety of ways we can engage in self-care, with the goal of creating our own realistic self-care plan.
The panel experts will share their experiences creating an open, accepting, compassionate health care system for LBGTQ persons and lead the audience in steps to build change into their work environments.
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This session will look at Program + Home collaboration. This partnership is a complex relationship that includes communication and strategies inviting them to participate in learning experiences.
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This workshop provides participants an advanced overview of the neurobiological, cognitive, emotional, and behavioral functioning of those exposed to traumatic incidents (e.g., abuse, disaster, war). This presentation will be divided into two parts.
This workshop will explain the signs, symptoms, and pathophysiology. The presenter will discuss developmental risk factors and prognosis. The workshop will address competencies required for ITMHCA Endorsement for Culturally Sensitive, Relationship Focused Practice Promoting Infant Mental Health at Levels 2, 3 & 4.
Join us for a fun evening of laughs and celebration, along with the Family of the Year and Family Support Professional of the Year awards presentation.
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Included in this presentation will be basic and advanced knowledge about complex trauma. Also, some scientific education about trauma will be covered. Strategies that might work and those that are disastrous will be highlighted. Intertwined in the presentation will be examples, personal stories, and illustrations.
I became involved and interested in trauma and attachment about ten years ago. Before that, i was almost 100% play therapy supervisor. I will continue todedicate my practice aimed at the people who have experienced trauma of many types and attachment difficulties.
Cultural humility is a tool that every one of us who works with people from diverse backgrounds should use every day of our professional life and beyond. It is a multi-dimensional concept that looks at 3 sets of principles that guide the thinking, behavior and actions of individuals and institutions to positively affect interpersonal relationships as well as systems change. As professionals who work in various fields and assist clients from all walks of life, how prepared are we to treat our clients with human dignity and show them that we respect them, and we are here to serve them. Call it bias or stereotypes, each of us knows or has a list of traits that have been ascribed to people. How often do we think that our biases or stereotypes affect the services that we provide? Let us talk about our assumptions for a minute and how we project those assumptions versus what are our client’s actual experiences and who they really are.
Veronica Ouya is a member of the board of directors for Iowa Interpreter and Translators Association (IITA) and a Commissioner for the Civil and Human Rights Commission in the City of Des Moines. She is a Medical Interpreter certified by the Certification Commission for Healthcare... Read More →
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This presentation will discuss evidence-based practices, successful partnerships and current programs that help to achieve positive outcomes for a strong Parenting Community. It is vital to strengthen families by building connections to improve safety, permanency and well-being. Developing a supportive and collaborative parenting community will increase protective factors. Enhancing parental resilience, providing an array of social connections, facilitating knowledge of parenting and child development, providing concrete support in times of need and supporting social and emotional competence of children are the key principles that will be highlighted to promote safety and well-being.
In an effort to address the Adverse Childhood Experiences in our communities, it is necessary to decrease risk factors associated to abuse, neglect and household dysfunction. Research shows that communities which establish caring connections have better overall health, safety and well-being. Identifying and reducing barriers must be addressed with committed community partnerships that work together to gain parental engagement and secure sustainable funding. This presentation will address how this can be accomplished by developing a Parenting Community which requires a collective effort of similar missions, visions and values from all involved.
uring this session, attendees will gain a better understanding on how data entered into DAISEY influences decision making at the state and federal level. Attendees will also gain insight into DAISEY resources and current data projects that offer a vision of what to expect on the data horizon in Iowa.
The ASQ 3, also known as the Ages and Stages Questionnaire 3, is a developmental screening tool designed by early childhood educators and other health professionals to catch delays and celebrate milestones as children age. The ASQ 3 Basics workshop will provide professionals with the foundational knowledge of the tool. In addition, this course will include an overview of the purpose of the tool, how to score, what scores mean, discussing the results with parents and how to complete follow up when necessary. Participants will leave with the confidence and understanding to incorporate the use of the ASQ 3 in future practice.
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This session will discuss Parents for Prevention, an online resource which takes the best available information on what causes sexual violence and translates it into a tool that helps parents reduce the risks of violence for their kids.
KellyMarie Meek is the Prevention and Public Health Initiatives Coordinator at the Iowa Coalition Against Sexual Assault (IowaCASA), where she has worked since 2008. She has spent over 25 years working to end violence and support survivors, and she is passionate about mobilizing communities... Read More →
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After receiving training in two different versions of TCIT, Slagle has developed a model that targets children with clinically significant disruptive behavior as well as overall classroom. Participants will be able to buffer toxic stress and building resiliency by enhancing positive caregiver-child interactions in the classroom. Those participating in TCIT will be able to explain how trauma exposure directly affects neurobiological responses to stress across the lifespan. Those participating in TCIT will be able to explain how quality of teacher-child attachment enhances children's social-emotional functioning and ability to learn.
Family support professionals can play a pivotal role by promoting breastfeeding during pregnancy, providing evidence based information, and connecting families to resources, and which can in turn help mothers meet their breastfeeding goals. There are critical periods in breastfeeding during which a family support professional can provide both support and education to promote breastfeeding and protect the breastfeeding relationship. It is essential to have a basic understanding of breastfeeding in order to provide support to families. This training will provide information to help family support professionals meet the needs of breastfed infants and their families.
Consent conversations go beyond just sexual consent and is a process of conversations from toddler to seniors that help create a healthy society. Join us for a facilitated discussion to examine consent and the intersections of gender roles, bodily autonomy, accepting rejections and empowerment.
Everyone was very excited when the Board/Council/Coalition was first organized. But, now attendance at meetings is declining, energy is waning and recruiting new members is more difficult. Not to worry, These trends can be reversed by: 1. Clarifying the group’s function (networking, coordinating, collaborating) 2. Reviewing, and agreeing, on what success looks like. 3. Reviewing who needs to be involved in which decisions.
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Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation is an effective strategy to help young children and their families increase social and emotional health while decreasing challenging behavior. The session will provide an overview of this emerging field, how it may be implemented and expected outcomes.
Breastfed and formula fed infants have different feeding needs and can exhibit variation in patterns of typical behaviors. This training will provide information about the benefits of breastfeeding for both mother and infant, evidence based practices to support the breastfeeding family, and explore the connection between infant feeding behaviors, development, and attachment. There will be information about infant growth patterns, reflexes, hunger cues, and development. Healthy bottle feeding practices will be discussed. Additionally, information about where to access evidence based information, services available in Iowa, and an introduction to basic counseling skills to help mothers make the decision to breastfeeding including discussion of common myths and misperceptions.
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, criticized by Maslow himself, is turned upside down by Paul K. Chappell, multi-racial West Point graduate, international peace educator, and survivor of severe childhood trauma. Chappell’s military background and his struggles to overcome rage, mistrust, and alienation, have led him to give us a new view of the interlocking non-physical needs that make us human, allow for our well-being, and help us reach our full potential.