Alberta Home Visitation Network Association (AHVNA)

MindUp for Life! is an evidence-based program that is an easy to implement tool. MindUp helps educators support children to develop the mental fitness to build a happier, healthier and more balanced life. The MindUp Program teaches the strategies and skills you need to find optimism, build resilience and create solutions for life’s challenges.

Alberta Home Visitation Network Association (AHVNA) provides ECEs a MindUp training customized to educators working in Out of School care programs!

This 6-session training introduces you to the Kimochis® tools to support children in exploring and managing their feelings. This training will be valuable for early childhood educators as you support children through those big feelings. The training is free to ECEs that work with children ages 0-6 within licensed dayhomes and daycares in Alberta, who are members of AHVNA.

Introduction to Early and Infant Mental Health is a free online webinar series that “provides an overview of early development with a focus on infant mental health and factors that can support or hinder development. Theoretical models that can be used to understand behaviours and influencing factors will be explored and considered within the context of community programs that work with families and young children.”

Kids Have Stress Too!® (0-6 yrs) provides a comprehensive introduction to key aspects of early childhood and brain development, as well as the crucial role caregivers and educators play in helping children learn effective stress-management strategies. Designed to meet the needs of early childhood educators and kindergarten teachers, the program contains practice and curriculum-based strategies to help young children learn how to manage stress.