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Webinar -Trauma Informed Care in ECE: Key Strategies for Healing and Behavioural Change

Children with a history of trauma often “act out” their distress through behaviours that are challenging for adults to understand. This webinar focuses on understanding the message of challenging behavior and strategies to help children heal.

Webinar: 5 Things You Can Do Today to Lessen Challenging Behaviours Tomorrow

At times, early educators may feel powerless in the face of challenging behaviours. But, there are steps you can take to lessen these behaviours! Through humour, concrete examples, and practical suggestions, participants in this webinar will learn about five common causes of challenging behaviours, how to recognize them, understand their impact, and how to remedy them so peace and happiness can prevail.

Webinar – Young Children in Refugee Families and Early Childhood Programs: Ways to Mitigate the Effects of Trauma

Young children in refugee families often endure significant direct or indirect trauma from their experiences during conflict, flight, or resettlement. The issue of trauma has gained increasing visibility across the early childhood field, yet relatively little research has explored the specific traumatic experiences and needs of young refugee children or strategies to address them. High-quality early childhood programs can have enormous benefits, particularly for the children of immigrants and refugees. Join this webinar where experts will discuss the effects of trauma on the development of young refugee children, and practical strategies that child-care providers in Canada are using to support the resiliency of refugee children and families.

Webinar- Engaging Families of Infants and Toddlers with Disabilities: Strategies to Enhance Your Practice

Engaging families can be a challenge, particularly if their infant or toddler has a disability or may show signs of developmental delay. Families of children with disabilities are often deluged by service providers and advice from early intervention teams, therapists, doctors, and other professionals. Join this session to learn strategies for enhancing family engagement practices for your program as well as your staff’s confidence in building culturally responsive partnerships with families of the infants and toddlers with disabilities included in your program.

Webinar: Ready or Not? Incorporating e-learning into your PD

In this webinar, participants will discuss what to look for in selecting high-quality e-learning that fits your budget. You’ll also get tips to help you determine if your CNC program staff are ready to learn online and ways to ensure that your e-learning efforts pay off. Participants will also receive downloadable tools and additional resources to help get you started!

Webinar: Extending the Book Experience: Strategies That Promote Language and Literacy in Dual Language Learners

Are you familiar with strategies that support DLLs in each stage of language development? Are you creating purposeful and intentional learning experiences that foster English language acquisition? Based on the planning guide, 10 Best Practices for Developing Book Experiences for Dual Language Learners, this webinar will support early childhood educators as they improve overall academic success with language and literacy development.

Video – Early Childhood Trauma: A Quick Overview

Trauma in early childhood can present in lots of different, complex ways. As early childhood educators though, you're in an incredibly important position to be able to help children with the healing process. This video gives a quick overview of childhood trauma, and three things you can do to help!

How to Create Programs That Support Recovery from Traumatic Experiences: WEBINAR

The webinar will include specific strategies to help you meet the emotional needs of children who have been affected by traumatic experiences. You will also receive links to two free downloadable guides to help you identify emotional distress and implement strategies to support the children in your care. Find out more and register now!

Webinar: Multilingual ECE Programs

The webinar, Multilingual ECE Progams: How Preschool Children Learn Languages and How Administrators Can Help, is available online to download. It explores common myths about early language learning, strategies for success learning language in school and at home, and activities and resources that make a difference.

Early Years Professional Development Centre

The Early Years Professional Development Centre offers early years professionals a comprehensive selection of continuous learning opportunities that are relevant, evidence-based and accessible, including a series on Cultural Diversity by Judith Colbert.