Professional Development

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Professional Development

• Leadership Team Discussion

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Components of a SFI Professional Development
Approach

• In-service training
• Develop special training for SFI programs
• Integrate SFI into ongoing in-service
  opportunities
• Pre-service training
• Add SFI ideas to courses in colleges and
  universities
• Integrate SFI into CDA programs
• In-program reinforcement of new practice
• Provide supervision and mentoring
• Make opportunities for peer sharing and
  reinforcement

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Pre-Service Professional Development in SFI
States

• Work with colleges and universities to
  incorporate protective factors and program
  strategies into courses (AK, NH, RI)
• Integrate SFI ideas into CDA programs at
  community colleges (AK, AR)

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In-Service Professional Development in SFI States

• Training from CCRRs (AK, IL, RI, WI)
• Incorporation into ECE professional development
  registries
• Inclusion in career lattice and articulation
  programs (IL)
• Added to core competencies for child care and
  other providers working with children and
  families (MO, WI)
• Inclusion in training for administrator
  credentials (AR)

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Potential In-Service Training Partners

• Child care resource and referral agencies
• Agricultural extension offices
• State licensing and/or credentialing staff
• Mental health consultants
• Family resource centers
• Family-friendly service providers

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Training Resources

• ZERO TO THREEs Preventing Child Abuse and
  Neglect Parent-Provider Partnerships in Child
  Care (PCAN) curriculum builds on the
  Strengthening Families logic model of the five
  protective factors and seven program strategies,
  and prepares trainers to guide child care
  professionals in adopting strategies that
  strengthen families and prevent child abuse and
  neglect.

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Training Resources

• The Midwest Learning Center on Family Support has
  developed a series of training curricula to
  support states implementing Strengthening
  Families
• A training manual and curriculum to train
  trainers on the protective factors
• Training on how to respond to signs of stress
• Training on communicating with families

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Training Resources

• Stronger Together is a nationally field-tested
  curriculum developed by the Parent Services
  Project to build the capacity of early care and
  education staff so they can support the
  well-being of young families.

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Professional Development Resources

• Regular learning network meetings among early
  care and education program staff
• Mental health consultants
• Using program self-assessment to encouragestaff
  discussion
• Mentoring, reflective supervision, creation of
  practice teams and other links to practice
  partners