Preparing for Challenging Conversations with Families
Watch this webinar and listen as Office of Head Start leadership and other experts hold a Q&A session around preparing for challenging conversations with families.
Head Start and Early Head Start programs support the mental health of children, families, and staff every day. Early childhood mental health is the same as social and emotional well-being. It is a child’s developing capacity to express and regulate emotions, form trusting relationships, explore, and learn—all in the cultural context of family and community. The mental health of children and the adults that care for them is essential for school readiness.
Watch this webinar and listen as Office of Head Start leadership and other experts hold a Q&A session around preparing for challenging conversations with families.
Watch this webinar and explore how infants, toddlers, and preschoolers use behavior to communicate their needs, intentions, and emotions, and how adults can effectively respond.
When staff and families partner together, resilience and healing can occur for young children. Discover supports for staff and mental health consultants around trauma-informed care.
Supporting families who are facing trauma is a critical component of the Head Start Heals campaign. Addressing potential sources of trauma families may experience is key to support healing and resiliency.
Supporting children who are facing trauma is a major part of the Head Start Heals campaign. Knowing the signs, symptoms, and supports for children who have experienced trauma fosters healing and resiliency.
Crisis and support hotlines can offer immediate help. They provide counseling, resources, and support that are confidential and free. Many are available 24 hours a day.
Watch this webinar to learn how leaders and staff can use the PFCE Framework to create a trauma-informed program and promote healing.
Explore strategies from the Pyramid Model that are relevant in a stressful time, like a pandemic. Learn how the disruption of routines may add more intensity to preexisting trauma for children and their families.
Learn how to strengthen trauma-informed practices for staff. Review strategies staff can use to practice trauma-informed care. Find examples of how to support staff in a trauma-informed program.
Learn how to use the Parent, Family, and Community Engagement Framework to strengthen trauma-informed care. Find examples of how to support trauma-informed care and healing in programs and in systems of care.