Presenter(s) |
Title and Description |
Swati Adarkar, The Children's Institute and Erinn Kelley-Siel, Office of Governor Ted Kulongoski
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Building Support for Early Childhood Inside and Outside of Government
In Oregon and across the county, new partnerships between government and the private sector are emerging in support of early childhood. Join Erinn Kelley-Siel, Governor Kulongoski's Policy Advisor on early childhood, and Swati Adarkar, Executive Director of the Children Institute, to discuss what is happening in our state and nationally. |
| Jan Aho, Pearl Buck Center Incorporated |
Supporting Parents With Cognitive Challenges
Parenting is challenging in the best of circumstances. For a parent with a developmental disability or other cognitive challenges, it is even more of a struggle. Many are referred to programs for parenting support. Get an overview of some general characteristics of those with cognitive challenges and strategies to support their parenting. |
Csilla Andor and Amy-Rose White, Postpartum Support International, Oregon
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Postpartum Depression and Other Perinatal Mood Disorders: Understanding Causes, Risk Factors, Symptoms, Community Resources and Practical Help
How do mood and anxiety disorders during pregnancy and the postpartum period differ from “regular” depression/ anxiety? Why should treatment be different? What signs and symptoms to look for? What questions to ask in order to avoid stigmatization? Where to refer? Why would a mother with severe symptoms of perinatal mood disorders not ask for help or deny that she has any problems? How can we recognize these conditions among multiple psychosocial issues? Do they affect the baby? How do we emphasize to families the importance of treating perinatal mood disorders in the midst of tackling multiple stressors and social barriers? Participants will receive answers to these questions, learn about the most recent research regarding the conditions, and will receive specific tools and handouts to use when interacting with families. Local and national resource lists will be distributed. |
| Joanna Byford, Family Development Center |
Creating a Supportive and Effective Learning Environment for Multi-Stressed Parents
This presentation will describe a number of the necessary characteristics of a supportive and effective learning environment for parents who are considered high-risk or multi-stressed. Through lecture and group activities, participants will receive an overview of the Culture of Poverty, discuss group dynamics and how they differ from "typical" parent groups, explore integral components of this type of parent group, and the importance of facilitator self care. |
Penny Church and Dianne Reinmuth
Parenting Now!/Birth To Three |
Creating Infant Groups That Become Extended Families: How the Magic Happens
Parent educators offer their perspective on effective facilitation strategies for parent groups, drawing on the rich history, curriculum, values and interactive learning model available at Birth To Three. |
| Claire Davis, Coleen Alexander, and Maria Westphal, Parenting Now! / Birth To Three |
Discipline as Teaching: The Journey to Self-Discipline
Learn specific activities that can be used with parents in groups to help parents identify and use their own values to teach their children the behavior they want to see. Learn to support parents in using a process of walking through "The Learning Questions" to begin to see discipline situations as learning opportunities. Learn unique and creative ways to teach parents about the tools they can put in their parenting toolbox so that they have a variety of effective responses to use for the many specific challenges at hand. |
| Gloria DeGaetano, CEO/Executive Director,
Parent Coaching Institute (PCI) |
Computers in Early Childhood
What can be gained from computers by the young brain? How can computers best serve the cognitive, emotional, and social needs of young children? This workshop presents the latest research findings on use of computers by children ages, 2-6, and examines some of the less well-known information about computers' effects on the brain/mind, central nervous system, and physical health. |
| David Dickinson, Vanderbilt University |
Fostering Children's Language Skills While Deepening Emotional Bonds
This workshop will engage participants in discussion of approaches to engaging toddlers and 3-year-olds in conversations that enrich language and foster enhanced relationships between adults and young children. Discussion of features of effective conversations will be grounded in observation of videotapes of parent-child interactions in the home. Implications for working with parents and caretakers to enhance language use will be discussed.
Handouts for this workshop. |
Ana Maria Dudley, Parenting Now!/Birth To Three
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Creating Successful Latino Parenting Groups: Bienvenidos!
This presentation address particular needs of bilingual/ bi-cultural parents and will provide tools necessary for recruiting and retaining families in a parenting group/class. The workshop is based on experiences from Haga de la Paternidad un Placer, a 12 week class modeled on the Make Parenting A Pleasure curriculum for highly stressed parents. |
Kay Endres-Reavis, LCSW,
Good Parenting... Great Kids |
Understanding Children and Parents' Needs that will Promote Family Harmony
Working with parents to help them become more effective with their children, I have found three common issues in parenting which will be addressed in this workshop:
1. Many parents frequently switch parenting styles and are not confident about which styles are effective.
2. The difficulty of collaboration between parents with regard to raising children creates frequent conflict and frustration.
3. The lack of guiding principles leaves parents searching for new answers instead of becoming more confident.
Maslow's Needs theory has proven to be effective in addressing all three issues. It helps translate and utilize a variety of parenting approaches. By giving parents an understanding of their own needs and the needs of their children, they learn to be more effective parents and collaboration becomes easier. Participants will have a chance to do parenting exercises, they will use a tool to understand and identify individual and family needs. The result for those we work with will be collaborative parenting in ways that promote trust and respect. |
| Gary Glasenapp and Pam Deardorff, The Teaching Research Institute |
Facilitating Effective Parenting Education Classes for Families from Diverse Backgrounds
This session will explore a variety of strategies that will assist the participants to effectively facilitate parenting education classes for families from diverse backgrounds. Information on adult learner characteristics, levels of family functioning and cultural considerations, and specific strategies for facilitating successful parenting education sessions will be included. |
| Donald Gordon, Family Works Inc. |
Engaging Parents with a Self-administered Parent Education Program:
Parenting Wisely
A self-administered parenting program, both as an interactive CD-ROM and online, allows parents to learn skills quickly through videotaped modeling. Recruitment and retention of parents are higher than other parenting programs. The privacy of the self-instructional format and high level of interaction that engages parents without causing defensiveness combine to produce substantial improvements. |
| Mary Gossart, Planned Parenthood of Southwestern Oregon |
"Oh No! What Do I Do Now?!... Becoming an 'Askable' Parent"
Learn how to help parents become comfortable and more skilled with one of their most common challenges. Children's natural questions, behaviors and curiosities around sexuality often create some of life's awkward moments for mom and dad. While challenging, these special opportunities invite parents to share personal values and beliefs as well as age- and experience-appropriate information with their children. |
| Rebecca Heckman, The Appreciative Family Consortium |
The Appreciative Family:
Creating Rich Family Conversations to Discover and Dream the Best for Your Family
The Appreciative Family: Creating Rich Family Conversations to Discover and Dream the Best for Your Family, is a highly interactive and creative workshop in which participants learn by doing. Using positive questions, creative activities, and story telling, individuals discover the 'best' in family conversations and learn to use the Discovery, Dream, Design, and Destiny processes. |
| Margot Heiniger-White and Linda Harrington, Families First of Grant County, Inc. |
From Tummy Time to School Success:
The Connection Between Gross Motor Skill Development and Learning Success in Very Young Children
Learn some simple activities and cues to look for, developed for teachers and parent educators based on the Integrated Motor Activities Screening Scale developed by Margot Heiniger-White. Learn how to identify sensory-motor patterns in children ages 5-8 that may affect their pre-academic and academic success. Learn why it is important to work with parents and their newborns and toddlers to develop strong gross motor skills. |
| Harold Ireton, University of Minnesota (retired) |
Parents' Development:
Helping Parents Help Their Children
Effective parent education depends on being both parent and child-centered. The Parents' Development Model helps PEs help parents deal with changing challenges and learn to play new roles as their children change. Finally, helping parents depends on recognizing diverse needs of various families and helping them utilize community resources. |
| Victoria Johnson, Central Oregon Family Resource Center |
Teaching Skills to Drug Affected Parents' Mixing Empathy with Science a Forum for Parent Educators
The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for parent educators to share ideas and experiences when working with parents who are drug affected and in recovery. The facilitator will provide tools to help recovering parents learn how to parent effectively. Workshop participants will also share their experience and expertise. |
| Laura Backen Jones, Oregon Research Institute |
Temperament and Parenting:
From Research to Practice
Consider how unique each child is! There are delights and challenges with each temperamental tendency. Learn how to appreciate/respect children's strengths, while encouraging healthy development in areas of challenge. Hear the latest research and learn how understanding temperament can help you develop a healthy and critical attachment with children. |
| Tedra Mandell, Oregon Commission on Children and Families |
The Art of Engagement: How to get your families to say "I DO"
Participants will see their contribution to the process of relationship building in a new light and broaden their understanding of the interplay of their personal qualities and self-confidence and how that feeds the process of engagement and retention of families in our parenting programs. Fresh strategies from a variety of disciplines. |
| Holly Mar, United Way of Lane County |
Creating Positive Community Norms on Parenting
United Way of Lane County's Success By 6 is on a mission to ensure that all children are safe, healthy, cherished and enter school ready to learn. The Success By 6 Executive Team will present the strategies that Success By 6 is implementing to create positive community norms on parenting. |
| Dana McDermott, DePaul University School for New Learning |
Credentialing in Parenting Education
As parenting education and support becomes recognized as a profession, accountability to insure quality in service delivery is expected. This workshop provides an overview of what organizations and States are doing regarding parenting educator credentialing. Time will be allotted for discussion and exploration of the benefits/challenges facing us in this process. |
| Joanna Morales, B.A.,ITMH,LE and Carol Freitas, Birth To Three |
Goal Setting for Families with Young Children ...Turning Dreams into Goals
Join us for a fun interactive workshop where you will learn valuable techniques to use with all families, especially teen and high risk parents. Learn how to help parents identify their dreams and turn them into achievable goals. This demonstrated technique will help parents create goals for themselves, their child and their family.
Handouts |
| Jorge Navarro, Centro LatinoAmericano and Carmen Urbina, 4j Family |
Blooming the Richness of the Latino Family
The tapestry of the Latino Family is a gorgeous combination of color, language, tradition, values, and hope. We will explore this vibrant community and present data and ideas for understanding the Latino family. |
| Judy Newman, EC Cares |
Working with Parents who have Children with Special Needs
Panel: A team of Early Childhood Special Educators from the EC CARES program with many years of experience providing services and supports to families who have children with developmental disabilities, delays and/or sensory impairments. They are up to date on the current research and practice related to this topic. In addition to direct service experience this team provides regular trainings to parents and other early childhood providers.
The parents on this panel all have children who have a disability, a developmental delay or a sensory impairment. The children are various ages now, but all were identified in the early childhood years and provided parent education and family supports. |
| Karen Pautz, Siskiyou First 5 Children and Families Commission and Amy Conroy, Happy Camp Family Resource Center |
If You Ask They Will Come... and Stay
Are you looking for ways to sustain your parenting education programs? Do you constantly feel like a sales person? Are you wondering about what others are doing in creating parenting education systems? Then don't miss this workshop! Cornerstone of a solid parenting education program is collaboration with a wide variety of agencies, organizations and individuals. In this workshop you will get ideas from one rural county on how they started on the path of strengthening their communities through creative partnerships and collaborations. You will also gain information on proven strategies about decreasing the stigma attached to attending parenting classes and how community partnerships can play a positive role in building your program's success. |
| Clara Pratt, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Oregon State University |
Best Practices:
Understanding How Your Program Can Help Families Succeed
Best practices are proven approaches—best practices consistently produce desired results. In this workshop we will examine several powerful "best practice principles that are the foundation for all interventions that succeed in helping individuals and families change. It's not magic or statistics—it's best practices!! |
| Juvata Rusch, Parenting Now!/Birth To Three |
Social/Emotional Skill Building in Children: Its Long-Term Implications for Self Mastery & Resiliency
Learn about how parents, teachers, and other caregivers can help children develop the essential social and emotional skills that research shows make such a positive difference in their success in school and in life. The workshop is research based, interactive, and immediately applicable.
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| Jana Svoboda, Jana Svoboda, LCSW Counseling and Consultation |
Preventing Compassion Fatigue: How to Keep Doing What You Love and Loving What You Do, Without Losing Your Health, Heart, or Mind
Keeping Fresh: You may be up on all the latest techniques but who is taking care of the caretaker? Don't stop loving what you do. Learn burnout prevention techniques through play, strength-based treatment philosophy, value based balancing acts, and each other. Interactive. |
| Karen Van Tassell, Oregon Commission on Children and Families Healthy Start |
The Art and Science of Perinatal Support: Identifying Strategies that Work Based on Emerging Research and Traditional Wisdom
Current research confirms the wisdom of traditional approaches that support families during the vulnerable time at and around the birth of a child. In this workshop we will learn how new research and age-old practices of family support can work together to strengthen present day programs and services. |
| Elizabeth Twombly, University of Oregon Early Intervention Program |
An Introduction to the Ages and Stages Questionnaires (ASQ):
A Parent Completed, Child Monitoring System
The Ages and Stages Questionnaires (ASQ) are a series of parent-completed questionnaires designed to screen and monitor the development of young children from 3 months to 5 years. In this workshop, participants will be introduced to the purpose of screening and the ASQ system. A case study will be used to provides an example of how to score and interpret ASQ results. |
David Willis, M.D., FAAP
Northwest Early Childhood Institute |
Strengthening Developmental Health and Sturdiness in Young Children: A Pediatrician's Perspective We have seen remarkable growth in our understanding of early childhood developmental processes from the multiple perspectives of pediatrics, mental health, neuroscience, public health, social and prevention sciences. This knowledge now challenges us to shift paradigms from risk identification and treatment to team/community-based early identification and intervention to achieve developmental health. From this perspective, the child health system plays a key role with community partners in promoting and “assuring developmental health.” This workshop will discuss these new opportunities to strengthen our youngest children, families and communities.
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