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The Growing Brain from Birth to 5 Years

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 18-hour training series is held in 6 sessions on Monday and Wednesday afternoons over 3 weeks**

Session 1:  Monday January 25th

Unit 1: Brain Basics

Session 2:  Wednesday January 27th

Unit 2: Factors Affecting Brain Growth and Development

Session 3:  Monday February 1st

Unit 3: Communication and Language Development

Session 4:  Wednesday February 3rd

Unit 4: Cognition and Executive Function and Unit 7: The Everyday Play

Session 5:  Monday February 8th

Unit 5: Social–Emotional Development

Session 6:  Wednesday February 10th

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)

FAIMH Membership Required

Special discounted rates for groups, as low as $250/person!

Location: online via Zoom

Zoom link info will be sent to paid registrants approx. 24 hours before the training begins.

View our Training Academy Policy on payment, cancellation and more.

Questions? Email us.

25 Jan 2021
1:00pm - 4:00pm EST

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