FAIMH Training Academy Goes Online!

This innovative training curriculum focuses on evidence-informed knowledge and strategies with which to prepare professionals who work with infants and young children for their vital role in building healthy brains. The curriculum fills a unique niche by providing a comprehensive understanding of how the brain develops, along with ways the professional can encourage healthy brain development in children from birth to 5 years old.

Participants will learn skills and strategies for understanding and supporting:

• Brain development (architecture and neurobiology) to inform their practice with infants, young children & their families;
• Language, cognition, prosocial behavior, and social-emotional development birth to five; and
• Reducing toxic stress that can negatively influence brain development of young children.

Schedule & Agenda

**Note: This training series is held on Monday and Wednesday afternoons over 3 weeks**

Session 1:  Monday June 15th

Unit 1: Brain Basics

Session 2:  Wednesday June 17th

Unit 2: Factors Affecting Brain Growth and Development

Session 3:  Monday June 22nd

Unit 3: Communication and Language Development

Session 4:  Wednesday June 24th

Unit 4: Cognition and Executive Function and

Unit 7: The Everyday Play

Session 5:  Monday June 29th

Unit 5: Social–Emotional Development

Session 6:  Wednesday July 1st

Unit 6: Understanding Behavior

Open to all FAIMH Members throughout Florida who work with infants, young children and their families, especially child care providers, Head Start/Early Head Start providers, support staff and administrators, early intervention specialists, inclusion specialists, Early Steps providers and mental health specialists.

Registration

$300 for the full 6-session training series (18 hours)

$50 per session if purchased individually

FAIMH Membership required

Location

online via Zoom

Zoom link info will be sent to paid registrants 2 days before the training begins.

Questions? Email us at training@faimh.org