GKI Training
for Universal Outreach and Support Programs for Parents/Caregivers
of Infants and Young Children
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As with any new job, mastering the competencies to produce successful outcomes requires training, practice and on-going coaching. Great Kids, Inc. can support you in evolving the skills of your program staff. We offer a wide range of quality trainings and a comprehensive parent-child and family support curriculum that are tailored to meet the specific needs of programs working with parents of children prenatally - age 5 in home visiting and group settings. A common thread in all of our seminars is the focus on supporting parents in developing positive attachment relationships with their infants and toddlers along with enhancing family self-sufficiency. |
Our trainings are for:
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- Primary focus on learning practical and proven strategies for building relationships with parents and motivating responsive parenting
- Learning through experiential methods
- Minimum use of lecture or passive learning approaches
- Effective tools for the multidisciplinary infant, toddler, and family field
- Integrated systems package for core training and parenting/child development curriculum (Growing Great Kids)
- Seminars facilitated by trainers with many years of hands-on program experience, able to address most any question or challenge faced by a participant
- Follow-up phone and email accessibility to trainers
- Increases in family engagement and retention
- Ease in transferring learning to on-the-job skills
- Improved levels of staff competence
- Clear focus on program goals during visits with families and supervision
- Improved outcomes for children and families
Our Training Programs
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for Universal Outreach and Support Programs for Parents of
Infants and Young Children
- Core Training Seminar for Parent Survey Process
(Universal Outreach to New Parents – Strength Based Assessment and Referral) - Core Training Seminars for Home Visitors
- Growing Great Kids Curriculum
(An interactive, parenting, child development and family enhancement curriculum) - Supervision and Program Management
- Advanced seminars for Seasoned Staff
- All core and advanced seminars fulfill HFA credentialing standards
- Core Training Seminar for Parent Survey Process
- for Trainers of Universal
Outreach & Support Programs
- On-site, individualized Mentoring Training for both Family Assessment and Support/Home Visitor Trainers
- Trainers certification includes, but is not limited to, Healthy Families America Core Training
- for Quality Management Teams/Systems
- Development of system infrastructure
- Comprehensive training package for Quality Management/Technical Assistance Team
- for Child Care
Givers – Family & Center–Based
- Comprehensive curriculum for training child caregivers
- Training of trainers for Child caregivers
- Caregiver-child activities that grow nurturing caregiving practices and support development
- for Orphanage Care Givers
- In-country Train-The-Trainer Institutes
- Comprehensive curriculum for training caregivers
- Monitoring/Quality Management Training for project officers
- Caregiver-child activities to enhance day-to-day relationships and to support development
- for Foster Parenting
- Train-The-Trainer Institute for trainers of foster parents
- Comprehensive curriculum for foster/resource parents of infants and young children
- Assessment Tool for Screening foster parenting applicants
- Seminars for social workers on Infant Mental Health, Infant/Child Care and Development and Child Guidance
- Creating strength-based relationships with program staff that motivate cooperation and grow partnerships
- for Early Child Development/Maternal-Child Health programs In Developing
Countries
- Comprehensive training package designed to build in-country capacity
- Read more details on Programs for Developing Countries
For additional information regarding training content, please contact Betsy Dew, Executive Director.
