Arkansas Home Visiting Training Institute

A Training for *Home Visitors that serve families with young children (prenatal through age five)

School Readiness Begins in Infancy: Building Foundations for Learning

Training Overview: ETO: Relationships among Family, School and Community

Training Objectives:

1. To examine how early experiences affect brain development
2. To examine the impact of social interactions during the first two years of life on future learning.
3. To identify factors that can derail healthy development
4. To explore keys to healthy development and school readiness for infants and toddlers

What Poverty Does to a Child’s Brain

Training Overview: ETO: Parenting Education

Training Objectives:

1. 1. To identify personal communication strengths and weaknesses.
2. To explore how different economic backgrounds and sub groups of parents have different communication styles and preferences
3. To understand and communicate more effectively with different subsets of parents.
4. To develop an action plan based on information learned in today’s training.

Register here for this free training.

*Staff of home visitation programs, FBBH, Healthy Families Arkansas, HIPPY, NFP, and PAT) are specifically encouraged to attend. Staff from other programs whose primary method of service delivery to families with children (prenatal – 5 years of age) is through home visiting are also invited to attend. TAPP registered

Arkansas Home Visiting Training Institute

Arkansas Home Visiting Training Institute The Arkansas Home Visiting Training Institute provides supplemental training and professional development for home visitors and supervisors from various home visiting programs in Arkansas. It is supported by a Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) Expansion Grant. It is operated through the Center for Effective Parenting and is directed by Dr. Nicholas Long.