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Registration for the 2025 Essential Pieces Conference is now open! For more information and to register, go HERE.

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AHVNA - GKI Growing Great Connections – Pilot Program

Event Date
Mon, Jul 15 2024, 9am - Fri, Jul 19 2024, 3pm

Growing Great Connections is a Great Kids comprehensive training program designed to grow foundational skills for home visitors and other frontline family practitioners. This training program includes FIVE training components that support professionals to work with families in:

  • Developing relationships through a relational communication framework,
  • Understanding the science of attachment,
  • Building a strengths-based and trauma-informed approach, and
  • Observing parent-child interactions to facilitate secure attachment relationships.

By the end of the training program, participants should:

  • Understand the importance of relational communication in interactions and know how to use the tools provided in the course to communicate effectively with families to build relationship-based partnerships.
  • Understand attachment theory, identify components of a secure attachment relationship, and learn how to foster secure attachments in visits.
  • Develop an understanding of a strengths-based approach, what it looks like in practice, and how the use of language can reflect this approach.
  • Expand knowledge of trauma and its impacts, understand a trauma-informed approach, and learn about resilience and ways to support its growth.
  • Be able to describe the importance and benefits of facilitating parent-child interactions and use the observational tool, CHEEERS, to promote, support, and document parent-child interactions.

This seminar is a blended learning program offering live instruction via webinar as well as independent study to reinforce foundational topics for growing effective home visiting practices.  The course is divided into 5 parts:

  • ENGAGE – 4 mornings live virtual instruction and 3 – 2 hour self directed learning
  • Soar Series (can be completed independently or as part of a Work Bee):
    • A Strengths-Based Approach – 2 hours self directed
    • Growing Resilience Through a Trauma-Informed Approach – 2 hours self directed
    • The Science of Attachment – 2 hours self directed
    • CHEEERS: A Tool for Observing Parent-Child Interaction – 2 hours self directed

There will be a mandatory 30 minute orientation that is required prior to beginning the live Engage portion of the seminar.

Please plan the entire week for this training to allow for various learning styles in the online learning portion of the course.

Location:

Online

Date & Time:

July 15-19, 2024, 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.

For more information and to register, go here.

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