Trainings:

Enhancing Emotional Literacy
Challenging Behavior
Hour of Power
Train the Trainer
Process of Change
Early Screening Project

The Child Care Consulting Program, Tennessee Voices for Children, was established in 1996, with initial and continuing funding support from the Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities. The program addresses serious behavioral, developmental, and environmental barriers to effective learning with special attention devoted to those children at imminent risk of being dismissed from their child care settings.

Several recent national reports (e.g., Eager to Learn, Neurons to Neighborhoods, A Good Beginning, and the Kaufmann Report on Social-Emotional Development) have discussed the importance of social-emotional development in children’s readiness for and success in school. These reports identified a number of social-emotional skills that children need to acquire during their preschool years:

1. Self-Regulation - Learning to regulate one’s emotions and behavior. Concentration and persistence with challenging tasks.
2. Communicating and Learning - Early development of language, reasoning, and problem solving. Ability to listen to instructions and be attentive. Ability to communicate feelings.
3. Making Friends and Getting Along With Peers - Capacity to trust, love, and resolve conflict. Capacity to develop good relationships with peers.

For the past four years, in collaboration with the National Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning, we have developed and field-tested the following series of evidence-based workshops that focus on preventing or reducing challenging behavior by promoting the social and emotional competence of young children:

• Challenging Behavior: Evidenced-Based Practices
• Social-Emotional Teaching Strategies: Enhancing Emotional Literacy
• Hour of Power: Positive Parenting Series

Although we work daily to disseminate these practices throughout Tennessee, there is only so much that our small team can accomplish. Therefore we are inviting consultants, facilitators, and trainers working with child care providers and early childhood educators to join us in one or more “Train the Trainer” sessions for this workshop series. These sessions will be presented in a location near you. The training will be provided at no cost. A Certificate of Completion will be provided. In return, we ask that you agree to present at least two workshops within 90 days following your training and provide us with copies of participant sign-in sheets. Thank you for considering this “Train the Trainer” offer. If you are interested and/or have questions please contact the Child Care Consulting Program, 1-800-670-9882.

Mamie McKenzie
Program Coordinator

Sincerely,

 

Dianne Dixon
Training Specialist

Matt Timm
Program Director