Description:

Join Mirine Richey, MPH, IBCLC and the Partners for a Healthy Baby team as we discuss the latest information on formula shortages and supply chain issues (and other natural and man-made disasters). We will cover the current issues, how this happened and can this happen again? What we can teach our prenatal clients, and how we can help them plan for the best start at the time of birth. If direct breastfeeding isn't desired or working, how about pumping? Learn the recommendations for establishing a full milk supply from birth. Milk banks and casual/peer to peer milk sharing and selling is also going on, hear the research on that. Last but not least, we will discuss the different types of formula available, how to use formula as safely as possible and what the American Academy of Pediatrics and leading dietitians share about how to best feed the baby when neither breastmilk or the usual formula is available.

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Working with teen parents and their children offers unique challenges and opportunities. This panel will share their extensive experience in addressing histories of trauma, building parenting capacity and partnering with community agencies. They will offer guidance on how to engage young families through telehealth visits, along with the use of the Partners for a Healthy Baby home visiting curriculum. Simultaneous attention to the ongoing needs of teen and baby, and the additional stressors of the Covid-19 pandemic, will be discussed by FSU Young Parents Project home visitors.

 As Complex As It Gets: Providing Services for Teen Parents and their Children During the Time of a Global Pandemic - PowerPoint
 As Complex As It Gets: Providing Services for Teen Parents and their Children During the Time of a Global Pandemic - Certificate
  Example video message for family from home visitor - Video
  Example TikTok video message from home visitor - Video

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COVID-19 has changed our day-to-day lives in so many ways. Families are working from home, school-aged children are learning from home, and home visitors are providing virtual home visits. This webinar will offer suggestions for how home visitors can use the Partners for a Healthy Baby home visiting curriculum to continue providing important developmental information to busy families, along with suggestions for activities they can do at home with their young children.
 Supporting Infant & Toddler Development During Virtual Home Visits - Handout List
 Supporting Infant & Toddler Development During Virtual Home Visits - PowerPoint
 Supporting Infant & Toddler Development During Virtual Home Visits - Certificate

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This session has been designed to provide clear and accurate information about the CDA® Credentialing System for educators working in Home Visiting Programs. The Partners for a Healthy Baby team will talk about the importance of this credential and the professional growth opportunities it offers to home visitors. Up-to-date information will be presented regarding all steps involved in the CDA® Assessment and Credentialing process for Home Visitors, its components, eligibility requirements, formal education, documentation requirements, CDA Verification Visitâ„¢, and Renewal process. There will be opportunities to ask questions. All interested individuals, such as Candidates, Mentors, Directors, Coordinators, Trainers, etc., are welcome.

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Even babies and young children feel stress. Unmet emotional needs manifest as challenging behaviors. They look to the trusted adults in their life to know how to manage. This presentation provides guidance for helping children learn to cope with stress and adversity. This webinar will share practical strategies for strengthening resiliency utilizing handouts from the FSU Partners for a Healthy Baby curriculum.

 Fostering Resiliency in Young Children - PowerPoint
 Using the FSU Partners for a Healthy Baby Curriculum to... Help Young Children Cope with Stress & Trauma - PDF
 Fostering Resiliency in Young Children - Certificate

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This webinar will highlight strategies for education on breastfeeding, formula feeding, and pumping to new parents and caregivers. Many parents are not aware of the precautions that need to be made around feeding an infant no matter what method of feeding is chosen, especially during times of a health crisis such as the current coronavirus pandemic. We will highlight the current recommendations, precautions, and resources to use with parents during the prenatal and postpartum period.

 Feed Me Safely! Using the Partners Curriculum to Address Newborn & Infant Feeding Concerns Related to Coronavirus - PowerPoint
 WIC: Infant Feeding: Tips for Food Safety - PDF
 How to Keep Your Breast Pump Kit Clean - PDF
 Feed Me Safely! - Certificate

Description:

Too often, we look for a "wizard" to find our happiness, love, wisdom or courage. Instead, we need not look any further than within ourselves. Similar to the pursuit of the Wizard of Oz, when we look inside, we "Find the Gold Within" and are reminded of all our inner strengths and talents. This motivational presentation provides fresh insights to awaken our hidden potential including creating a dream, overcoming obstacles, healing inner wounds, learning to nurture body and soul, building a circle of support and trusting relationships, increasing abundance, and practicing mindfulness and meditation. Handouts from the FSU Partners for a Healthy Baby & Finding the Gold Within curriculum will be shared that address each of these topic areas.

 Finding the Gold Within: Overcoming Adversity to Create a Happy Life - Powerpoint
 Finding the Gold Within: Overcoming Adversity to Create a Happy Life - Handouts
 Finding the Gold Within: Overcoming Adversity to Create a Happy Life - Certificate

Description:

Adversity is common. We can't stop bad things from happening, but we can choose how we cope. This ability to bounce back when bad things happen is called resiliency. Many fairytales end in "happily ever after" but the real magic is the strength developed to overcome adversity. The science of resiliency has identified these qualities-social connections, problems solving, flexibility, resourcefulness, self-confidence, reframing, humor, a sense of optimism, and hope. This motivational presentation will provide Home Visitors strategies for helping families strengthen resiliency utilizing handouts from the FSU Partners for a Healthy Baby curriculum.

  Strengthening Resiliency - Powerpoint
  Strengthening Resiliency - Handout
  Strengthening Resiliency - Certificate

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This presentation introduces the concept of adverse childhood experiences (ACES) and illustrates the multiple ways that early trauma manifests in physical and mental health issues and suggests 7 strategies from the resiliency science to cope with early trauma throughout the life cycle.

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Expectant parents are typically concerned with how the pregnancy and birth will progress, but during this pandemic there is extreme worry and uncertainty. Often hearing different answers regarding where they can give birth and who can accompany them, we will highlight materials and strategies to best support parents during labor and birth highlighting current practices. Relevant handouts from the FSU Partners for a Healthy Baby curriculum will be shared.

 A Covid-19 Birth Plan - Certificate
 A Covid-19 Birth Plan - PowerPoint

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The COVID-19 crisis has changed so much about the way we live our lives. Now more than ever, Home Visitors are juggling several different responsibilities: home visiting using new family engagement techniques, managing their own households with "Shelter in Place" orders, becoming a Teacher/Distance Learning Facilitator for their school age children, caring for vulnerable family members, staying connected with the outside world, and learning a lot of new technology in order to do it all! Self-care has always been important for Home Visitors and other "Helper" professionals, but now it is critical!

Join us for this webinar as our FSU Early Head Start Program Director, who is also a licensed clinical social worker, discusses the importance of self-care and shares strategies for Home Visitors and Home Visitor Supervisors as they cope with this challenging and ever-changing time. We will also highlight Partners for a Healthy Baby curriculum handouts that emphasize coping strategies, stress reduction, and the importance of self-care.

 Supporting Home Visitors and their Supervisors During COVID-19 - PowerPoint
 Supporting Home Visitors and their Supervisors During COVID-19 - Handout
 Supporting Home Visitors and their Supervisors During COVID-19 - Certificate

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Learn ways to recognize signs of compassion fatigue and strategies for self-care.

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This webinar provides 6 tips for surviving quarantine with teens.

 COVID-19: Supporting Children and Teens

Description:

Due to the overwhelming response to our digital curriculum webinar today many of you were not able to log in and participate. As a result, we will provide the webinar again, live, and will be using a different webinar service that allows up to 1000 people to attend.

We hope you can join us for this free, 1-hour webinar on Friday, April 3rd at 1:00pm EST as we provide an overview of our Partners for a Healthy Baby digital curriculum. We will provide guidance on how to use the curriculum to fidelity and how to find the content you are looking for. We will also highlight strategies for conducting effective "virtual home visits" with tips and information from many of the programs that use Partners, as well as from the Director of the FSU Early Head Start program and the nurses with the FSU Young Parents Project in Florida.

 PHB Webinar Powerpoint
 Using PHB Digital to Fidelity
 Virtual Home Visit Tip Sheet

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As the coronavirus pandemic alters our daily lives in so many ways, we are challenged to be our best selves. This inspirational webinar provides 5 strategies for managing stress while increasing healthy coping mechanisms, including ways to connect while physically distancing. Parents are encouraged to practice self-care and acts of kindness as children learn through imitation how to handle difficulties. Children probably won't remember what they did while home, but they will remember how they felt. Through adversity, we can create new ways to live and heal.

Description:

• Observational assessments are crucial for understanding behaviors and emotions that contribute to the young child-caregiver relationship.
• Given the importance of observational assessments, the What to Look for in Relationships Scale (WLR) scale was developed to provide a way to describe and understand behaviors and emotions in relationships.

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As part of FSU's Webinar Series for Florida's Early Childhood Courts, Webinar 5 will address vicarious traumatization and compassion fatigue when working with families and young children with trauma and strategies for self-care.

Description:

Mirine Dye is an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant and received her Master's in Public Health from Florida International University. Mirine's work has spanned a 20 year career in hospitals and public health programs including Healthy Start and WIC. Her experience includes 10 years as a Partners for a Healthy Baby trainer with Florida State University, and formerly as a trainer and consultant for the Society for Public Health Education, Florida Maternal Infant Early Childhood Home Visiting and Healthy Families Florida.

Join us for this live webinar in partnership with the Office of Early Learning, where we will understand current feeding recommendations and newest research around breastmilk feeding. We will also discuss common challenges for new mothers using childcare centers who are providing breastmilk for baby. We will explore how to best support breastfeeding mothers and what prenatal interactions may promote the initiation and increase the duration of breastfeeding after returning to work or school.

Bio:
Mirine Dye is an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant and received her Master's in Public Health from Florida International University. Mirine's work has spanned a 20 year career in hospitals and public health programs including Healthy Start and WIC. Her experience includes 10 years as a Partners for a Healthy Baby trainer with Florida State University, and formerly as a trainer and consultant for the Society for Public Health Education, Florida Maternal Infant Early Childhood Home Visiting and Healthy Families Florida.

Description:
Join us for this live webinar where we will briefly review the components of the Partners for a Healthy Baby curriculum and how to use it to fidelity, and get a preview of curriculum Topics located in the Scope and Sequence. You will gain an understanding of how the Partners curriculum can enhance and support your home visiting program. We recommend attending one of our on-site trainings (www.cpeip.fsu.edu) to help you gain the practical skills, knowledge, and hands-on experience of using the Partners curriculum to plan and conduct effective home visits. However, this webinar will give you a brief introduction and overview to get you started using the Partners curriculum to fidelity! Live webinar participants will have the opportunity to ask questions and get answers about the Partners curriculum and content. The webinar will be archived on our website for those who cannot attend the live broadcast.

Description:
As part of FSU's Webinar Series for Florida's Early Childhood Courts, Webinar 1 will explain "In-lieu-of Services" benefits, including new parent education services and infant mental health assessments. Will also cover steps to become a credentialed participating provider in Sunshine Health's network after obtaining a Florida Medicaid provider number.

*** Please note that this is a recording and not a live event. Any mention of a survey or certificate are not available after watching recording! We appreciate your understanding!

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As part of FSU's Webinar Series for Florida's Early Childhood Courts, Webinar 2 will explain ways to get credentialed with Medicaid and how to be more successful in billing and being reimbursed for Medicaid services to serve families and young children in child welfare system and in Early Childhood Court.

*** Please note that this is a recording and not a live event. Any mention of a survey or certificate are not available after watching recording! We appreciate your understanding!

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As part of FSU's Webinar Series for Florida's Early Childhood Courts, Webinar 3 will explain signs that emotional needs are not being met, behaviors to observe and trauma symptoms that may not be apparent in young children and ways to foster resilience.
*** Please note that this is a recording and not a live event. Any mention of a survey or certificate are not available after watching recording! We appreciate your understanding!

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As part of FSU's Webinar Series for Florida's Early Childhood Courts, Webinar 4 will address relationship-based assessments, bonding verses attachment, what is a bonding assessment, and how parent child assessments can help move a family forward.

*** Please note that this is a recording and not a live event. Any mention of a survey or certificate are not available after watching recording! We appreciate your understanding!

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Home visitors are often challenged by the unique needs of teens parents and their children. This webinar will consider the dual developmental needs of parent and baby, complex trauma and resilience, and the meaning of parenthood in the lives of young women and young men. A reproductive justice framework will encourage participants to expand their work as advocates for young families within communities. It will draw on the experiences of the FSU Young Parents Project and it's work with the most vulnerable court-involved and trafficked youth. Practical strategies will be included to support parenting capacity and promote positive outcomes.

*** Please note that this is a recording and not a live event. Any mention of a survey or certificate are not available after watching recording! We appreciate your understanding!

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In this session you will learn about using a trauma-informed approach to adapt your classroom so that you can reduce stress and promote a sense of safety and security - essential for successful early learning. You'll also learn about early childhood mental health consultation and other resources when children need supports beyond the classroom. Trauma-informed care will also help you have less stress and behavior challenges while concurrently helping the children you care for be happier and more successful.

Bio:
Dr. Mimi Graham has been the Director of the Florida State University Center for Prevention and Early Intervention Policy since 1993, specializing in policy, training, and special projects for vulnerable infants and toddlers including the Early Childhood Coordinating Systems (ECCS) project on Trauma & Toxic Stress and the Harris Infant Mental Health Training Institute. She is active in the statewide Trauma Informed Care Workgroup and is spearheading statewide "baby" court teams to address the trauma of young children. She is the past president and co-founder of the Florida Association for Infant Mental Health and a fellow with the Zero to Three National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families.

*** Please note that this is a recording and not a live event. Any mention of a survey or certificate are not available after watching recording! We appreciate your understanding!

Description:

The development of mutually rewarding interactions, behavioral self-regulation, social skills, learning, and lifespan health all depend on the emerging abilities of parents and other primary caregivers to handle and successfully adapt to stress (from internal and external sources), feel loved and supported by significant partners, understand stages of early childhood behavior and development, and feel pride and satisfaction from the effort of childrearing.

Dr. Gorski will discuss the power of early relationships to effect long-term physical and emotional health. He will also talk about the common sources of potentially toxic stress, and highlight the importance of organized and personalized child and family support from professionals, programs and policies to give children an optimal start to happy and healthy lives.

Dr. Gorski will review exciting research that links brain development, behavioral regulation, and social engagement during infancy and early childhood with the presence or absence of positive attention and emotional attunement (versus chronic stress) in relationships between infants and their caregivers.

*** Please note that this is a recording and not a live event. Any mention of a survey or certificate are not available after watching recording! We appreciate your understanding!

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This webinar will highlight research into root causes of chronic states of disease and disability, demonstrating the mechanisms and developmental cascade through which traumatic stress becomes biologically embedded, altering the foundations and trajectory of human health and pathology.

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This video lesson presents current information on the incidence of opioid use in women of reproductive age and the issues related to the management of opioid dependency during pregnancy. Additionally, the Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome and appropriate treatment strategies are discussed.

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Home visiting can play a pivotal role in alleviating the intergenerational transmission of trauma by helping parents and caregivers build positive and healthy attachments with their children. Trauma-informed home visiting offers a lens through which we can see the impact of trauma on families, recognize the signs of trauma, and use that understanding to improve family engagement, services, and outcomes. This webinar will help home visiting programs to become trauma informed and to understand the developmental impact of trauma on young children.

Bio:
Dr. Mimi Graham has been the Director of the Florida State University Center for Prevention and Early Intervention Policy since 1993, specializing in policy, training, and special projects for vulnerable infants and toddlers including the Early Childhood Coordinating Systems (ECCS) project on Trauma & Toxic Stress and the Harris Infant Mental Health Training Institute. She is active in the statewide Trauma Informed Care Workgroup and is spearheading statewide "baby" court teams to address the trauma of young children. She is the past president and co-founder of the Florida Association for Infant Mental Health and a fellow with the Zero to Three National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families.

*** Please note that this is a recording and not a live event. Any mention of a survey or certificate are not available after watching recording! We appreciate your understanding!

Description:

Your safety is as important as the work you do. Home visitors often work with families living in circumstances that feel unsafe or may even be dangerous. This webinar will address safety concerns that may come up during common situations, and some uncommon situations, that home visitors encounter. How to handle situations like animal hazards, threatening participants or family members, violence, weapons, and high crime neighborhoods will be discussed.

*** Please note that this is a recording and not a live event. Any mention of a survey or certificate are not available after watching recording! We appreciate your understanding!

Description:

Your safety is as important as the work you do. Home visitors often work with families living in circumstances that feel unsafe or may even be dangerous. This webinar will address safety concerns that may come up during common situations, and some uncommon situations, that home visitors encounter. How to handle situations like animal hazards, threatening participants or family members, violence, weapons, and high crime neighborhoods will be discussed.

*** Please note that this is a recording and not a live event. Any mention of a survey or certificate are not available after watching recording! We appreciate your understanding!

Description:

Substance abuse is an area of great concern for home visitors working with high risk pregnant women and parents of young children. Every 25 minutes a baby is born suffering from opioid withdrawal and studies show more than 70 million children live with parents who are dealing with addiction. Parents who abuse controlled substances have a higher risk of abusing their children.

Dr. Neil Boris, a child and adolescent psychiatrist, will discuss addiction as a social connection problem with known root causes. People most likely to suffer from addiction also have trauma histories. Dr. Boris will discuss strategies home visitors might use to help people improve their social networks and address the root causes of their addiction.

Drs Christine Chiricos and Terry Hoover will briefly discuss a tool that identifies Topics, Purposes, and Handouts found in the Partners for a Healthy Baby home visiting curriculum to support families struggling with substance abuse. This valuable tool will shorten home visit planning time and facilitate delivery of effective support for families.

*** Please note that this is a recording and not a live event. Any mention of a survey or certificate are not available after watching recording! We appreciate your understanding!

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Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) is a significant threat to the safety and well-being of women and children. Pregnancy may increase a woman's risk of being abused and children may be impacted by the abuse even before birth. The impact on women and the profound effects on children who are exposed to such violence will be discussed during this webinar. Home visitors are uniquely positioned to screen families for IPV and to respond by helping to meet survivors' self-identified safety needs. During this webinar home visitors will learn about building a partnership with domestic violence survivors that increases child safety.

Drs Chiricos and Hoover will discuss a tool that identifies topics, purposes, and handouts found in the Partners for a Healthy Baby home visiting curriculum to support families who are at risk for or experiencing IPV. They will discuss how this content is organized and explain the research that informs it. This valuable tool will shorten home visit planning time and facilitate delivery of effective support for families dealing with IPV. Ms Carlson will share empowering strategies for working with women surviving IPV and provide information about resources that are available throughout the state of Florida for survivors and their children.

*** Please note that this is a recording and not a live event. Any mention of a survey or certificate are not available after watching recording! We appreciate your understanding!

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Depression is common among mothers enrolled in home visiting programs. Research indicates that up to half of these mothers experience clinically significant levels of depression during participation in home visiting services. If left unaddressed, depression undermines many home visiting outcomes and is a primary risk factor for poor pregnancy and birth outcomes and child development concerns and issues. Home visitors are uniquely positioned to engage depressed moms and dads and promote entry to treatment. Many home visitors use the Partners for a Healthy Baby home visiting curriculum to support moms and dads at risk for or struggling with depression. Participants will be provided a valuable tool identifying topics, purposes, and handouts addressing stress, depression, and support found in the Partners curriculum. This tool will shorten home visit planning time and facilitate delivery of effective support for families dealing with stress and depression. We will discuss how this content is organized and explain the research that informs it.

*** Please note that this is a recording and not a live event. Any mention of a survey or certificate are not available after watching recording! We appreciate your understanding!

Description:

Listen to Dr. Mimi Graham discuss the relationship between adverse childhood experiences and adult health outcomes. Learn how to recognize how early adversity affects child development and know the different types of services that can help children overcome their adverse experiences. Register today for this free webinar. CEU are available.

Bio:
Dr. Mimi Graham has been the Director of the Florida State University Center for Prevention and Early Intervention Policy since 1993, specializing in policy, training, and special projects for vulnerable infants and toddlers including the Early Childhood Coordinating Systems (ECCS) project on Trauma & Toxic Stress and the Harris Infant Mental Health Training Institute. She is active in the statewide Trauma Informed Care Workgroup and is spearheading statewide "baby" court teams to address the trauma of young children. She is the past president and co-founder of the Florida Association for Infant Mental Health and a fellow with the Zero to Three National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families.

*** Please note that this is a recording and not a live event. Any mention of a survey or certificate are not available after watching recording! We appreciate your understanding!

Description:

Learn how to de-mystify the world of Medicaid when it comes to billing for infant mental health services. Walk through concrete examples of documentation that support "medical necessity". Hear how the changes to the Community Behavioral Health Services Coverage and Limitations Handbook may affect your practice. See Florida's brand new Crosswalk to the ICD-10-CM Codes with the DC:0-3R for billing purposes.

Participants will learn:
— Best practices for documenting medical necessity for young children.
— Methods/activities to ensure quality assurance and readiness for Medicaid audits.
— How to use Florida's Crosswalk to successfully bill for Infant Mental Health services.

Bio:
Kathryn Shea is a licensed clinical social worker with over 30 years of experience working with children with serious emotional and behavioral disorders and fetal alcohol and drug effects. She received her Bachelor's degree in Psychology and her Master's degree in Social Work from the University of Kentucky. She is currently the President and CEO of The Florida Center for Early Childhood in Sarasota, whose mission is the healthy development of young children, their families, and communities. Kathryn is a national trainer in infant/young children's mental health and a Field Trainer for SAMHSA FASD Center for Excellence, sharing her professional expertise and personal stories of raising Seth, her adopted son with fetal alcohol syndrome. Kathryn has been a consultant to the Alaska Department of Health, is the FASD Florida state coordinator to the National Association of FASD State Coordinators, and is past president of the Florida Association for Infant Mental Health.

*** Please note that this is a recording and not a live event. Any mention of a survey or certificate are not available after watching recording! We appreciate your understanding!