Trainings
Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect: Parent-Provider Partnerships in Child Care
Zero to Three2000 M Street NW Suite 200
Washington, D.C. 20036
202-638-1144 | Linda Gillespie
An interactive knowledge and skill-building training for experienced trainers. Trainers learn to implement the curriculum, Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect: Parent-Provider Partnerships in Child Care (PCAN) with child care providers and directors. Participants discover that this curriculum helps them provide child care providers with the knowledge, skills and supports to imbed the SFI protective factors in their programs. Over three days, participants are engaged in a professional development workshop that addresses relationship-based and reflective training approaches, and content on the impact of child maltreatment on very young children. Participants understand the strengths-based, family-centered approach upon which the curriculum rests, and learn about the curriculum’s theoretical, research and practice base.
Target audience: TrainersDescribe audience: n/a
Criteria for participation: Participants should be experienced trainers, preferably with at least 5 years of experience. Participants who do not possess all of the above described areas of content expertise should be prepared to co-train when using PCAN to train child care providers. Co-trainers should attend the training together.
Training specific to Strengthening Families? Yes
Issues covered: Other (describe below)
Describe other issues: Culture and diversity in working with children and families; Understanding the impact of abuse and neglect on very young children
Structure of training: Multiple sessions
Topics covered: SESSION ONE History and Development of the PCAN curriculum Relationship-based training strategies Reflection in, on and for action Adult Learning Principles Impact of Abuse and Neglect for Infants, Toddlers and Their Families SESSION TWO Circles of Communication: Responding to the Unexpected in Training Building Collaborative Relationships with Families Building a Healthy Brain Social-Emotional Development of Infants, Toddlers, and their Families The Influence of Culture on Caregiving Working with Culturally Diverse Training Participants SESSION THREE Implementing the PCAN Curriculum Understanding and Responding to Abuse and Neglect of Infants and Toddlers Supportive Responses to Troubled Parent-Child Interactions Challenging Behaviors in Infants and Toddlers Relationship-based and Reflective Organizations Supporting Staff in their Work with Parents
Session length: 7.5 hours
Learning styles utilized: Experiential
Post traning activites: Other (describe below)
Describe other activities: web-based distance learning, audio conferences
Number of participants: 20-40
Cost per participant: $675
Evaluation data available? Yes
If so, how is the data accessed? Contact Linda Gillespie at Zero to Three
Overall rating for this training is: 
Average of 6 total votes.
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