Trainings


Click the links below to find trainings and resources for:

Doctors and Health Care Professionals
Social Service Professionals
Public Education

 

Doctors and Health Care Professionals

Trainings

New-Children's Medical Services Early Steps Training Activities- Click here to find training activities in your area. On the trainings page, scroll to the bottom and select a region.

PediaLink Course Finder- Click here to find Pediatric courses in your area.

Need CMEs/CEUs?- Check out this convenient opportunity at http://www.onlinece.net

 

Tools and Resources

Bright Futures- Click here for Health Care Professionals tools and resources.

New-HealthDay- Physician's Daily/Monthly Briefings

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Information and Tool Kit- Click here to learn more about FASD. Click here to download the FASD toolkit for women's health care providers.

 

Social Service Professionals

Trainings

New-March 27, 2010, Collier Child Care Resources, Inc Third Annual Early Childhood Conference, "Get the Big Picture: Mental Health, Early Intervention and Treating the Whole Child. Click here for details. Click here to register.

New-September 12 through 14, 2010, Eleventh International Conference on Shaken Baby Syndrome/Abusive Head Trauma, Buckhead/Atlanta, Georgia. Click here for details. Click here to register online.

New Save the Date!-March 30-April 2, 2011 8th Annual Addressing Challenging Behavior Conference, by the National Training Institute for Effective Practices. Click here for details. Registration for the 2010 Conference is closed.

New-Car Seat Safety for Premature Babies- Click here for details.

New-Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Training- Click here for information about how to schedule a FREE training session from The Florida Center for Child and Family Development.

 

Tools and Resources

211 Web Site- MyFlorida 211 Web is a great way to locate resources for child care, housing, addictions, etc. The Web site has recently been updated with a "Strengthening Families" section that includes parenting information.
Please share this link with your collaborative partners, staff and families.

Bed Sharing and SIDS- The Florida Department of Health has released a position paper on the incidence of SIDS and it's correlation to bed sharing. Click here to view.

Better Kid Care- ( Penn State): http://betterkidcare.psu.edu/index.html

Better Kid Care New Staff Orientation- ( Penn State): http://betterkidcare.psu.edu/page11a.html

Bright Futures- Click here for Public Health Professionals tools and resources.

Bright Futures in Practice- Mental Health Volumes I and II Click here to download this publication.

Children Youth and Family Resources- CYFERnet www.cyfernet.org CYFERnet's web site brings together the best, children, youth, and family resources of all the public land-grant un iversities in the country. The site is designed to be used by anyone who needs comprehensive children, youth, or family information including: educators, researchers, parents, youth agency staff, community members, human services and health care providers, students, policy makers, youth, media.

Children's Medical Services Early Steps Training Activities- Click here to find training activities in your area. On the trainings page, scroll to the bottom and select a region.

Early Childhood and Early Internvention- training resource materials from Natural Resources

Family Storyteller- ( Nevada): http://www.unce.unr.edu/programs/childyouthfam/index.asp?ID=43

Fatherhood Initiative- Developed by Texas Cooperative Extension, an educational agency affiliated with the Texas A&M University System, Fathers Reading Every Day (FRED) is a program designed to encourage fathers, grandfathers, and other positive male role models to read to their children on a daily basis. The program aims to increase father involvement in children's literacy development and to improve the quality of father-child relationships. http://fcs.tamu.edu/families/parenting/fathering/fred/index.php
http://fcs.tamu.edu/families/parenting/fathering/index.php

Injury, Violence and Suicide Prevention- TEACH-VIP E-Learning addresses a broad range of topics related to preventing injuries, violence, and suicide. It offers guidance on using data to understand injury problems and developing evidence-based programs to address them. The course is designed for public health professionals and care providers; staff of public health ministries and other government sectors; nongovernmental organizations; and university students in schools of medicine, nursing, and public health.

Infant Mental Health and Early Care and Education Providers- Research Synthesis from The Center on Social and Emotional Foundations for Learning.

National Maternal and Child Oral Health Resource Center- Oral Health Resource Bulletin, June, 2008. This booklet is the latest in a series designed to stimulate thinking and creativity within the MCH community by providing information about current materials of interest.

New-Newborn Breastfeeding- ABC's of Breastfeeding pictorial and video overview.

New-Newborn Physiology, Normal and Abnormal- This visual presentation from Stanford University walks you through newborn slides with information under the slide. Click on the topic and use the arrows to access each slide in the topic detail. This is a great way to learn information designed for residents and interns.

Zero to Three- is a national nonprofit multidisciplinary organization. It's mission is to support the healthy development and well-being of infants, toddlers and their families by informing, educating and supporting adults who influence the lives of infants and toddlers.

 

Public Education

Child Watch

Participants visit on-site programs that serve children and families, and receive briefings by local experts. Participants learn the challenges of achieving and maintaining an healthy community and learn way is which they can personally make a difference. Click here to learn more.