Creating Bright Futures Through Collaboration and Teaming
This session is intended as the first step toward helping participants explore a vision of inclusion based on images and ideas from programs throughout the country.
Young children vary in their skills, knowledge, backgrounds, and abilities. Effective teaching requires individualized teaching and chances to learn for all children to access, participate, and thrive in early learning settings. Individualizing for children who need more support helps ensure effective teaching for children with disabilities and other special needs across all the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework domains. Using children’s Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP) and Individualized Education Program (IEP) goals is part of effective teaching, individualizing, and creating inclusive environments to support children’s positive outcomes.
This session is intended as the first step toward helping participants explore a vision of inclusion based on images and ideas from programs throughout the country.
This session introduces a family's story through the video, Francisco and the Diego Family.
This resource focuses on the Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP) process and each team member's role in that process before, during, and after the IFSP development.
Explore this resource that shows how collaborative relationships can promote family leadership.
In this session, participants consider the diverse ways that families of infants and toddlers with disabilities can be leaders in their own family with their children, in programs, and in communities.
This session emphasizes the importance of building relationships with families in developing family-service provider collaboration.
Using the video Getting Services, this session reviews the processes of early identification; referral to early intervention to determine eligibility for Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) Part C services; and support to families who are accessing services.
This session covers information that is important to families and service providers when a disability is first identified.
Listening to families is a skill that is essential for providing responsive services to infants and toddlers with disabilities. This session lays the foundation for building relationships with families.
Creating Bright Futures is intended as the first step toward helping participants think about creating a vision of what inclusion will look like in their programs and communities.