80x3: Resilient from the Start

•  Additional Resources to Support Your Work with Young Children

The Minnesota Association for Children’s Mental Health (MACMH) and Center for Inclusive Child Care partnered to host this live conversation for professionals in the field of early care and education (funded through the MN Preschool Development Grant).
•  The Impact of Identity on Healing-Centered Practice

Pediatric Occupational Therapist Alyssa Mason describes how sensory activities may be used to support all children, with an emphasis on attending to the needs of children who have experienced trauma
•  Sensory Strategies as Tools for Self-Regulation and Healing (Part 1)
•  Sensory Strategies as Tools for Self-Regulation and Healing (Part 2)

80x3 Podcast Series: Focusing on Equity to Create Inclusive and Welcoming Early Childhood Environments
Join Dr. Nicole Evans from Embracing Equity and Beth Menninga and Priscilla Weigel of CICC as they discuss the central role of equity in creating inclusive early childhood environments.  Dr. Evans presents a useful framework for taking action at three levels to promote equity in organizations. Examples are shared of how and where learning organizations identified needs and made changes aimed at creating more equity at the individual, cultural and systems levels. As we think about where to begin a focus on equity in early childhood environments, the group talks about ways to create strong family partnerships as a powerful first step.

• 80x3 Podcast Series: Focusing on Equity to Create Inclusive and Welcoming Early Childhood Environments - Part 1

Angela Clair, Director of Early Childhood Services at Wilder Child Development Center, joins Priscilla Weigel and Beth Menninga to share her center's story of rethinking their approach to expulsion with the goal of truly being inclusive.  How can we include parents and staff to shift our organizational thinking and practices in our responses to big behaviors so that our doors welcome and support all children to thrive in our early childhood programs?

• 80x3 Podcast Series: Focusing on Equity to Create Inclusive and Welcoming Early Childhood Environments - Part 2

80x3 Podcast Series - Early Childhood Budgets, Boards, and Brain Development
Join our guests, Amanda Ziebell Mawanda, Art Rolnick, and Jamie Bonczyk in this three part series as they discuss how budgeting decisions in the early childhood education sector translate into positive brain development in young children.  Barriers are highlighted as we talk through ways to foster organizational shifts, economic investment, stressing board recruitment and engagement as ways to support your organization’s work.

• 80x3 Podcast Series: Early Childhood Budgets, Boards, and Brain Development - Part 1
   

• 80x3 Podcast Series: Early Childhood Budgets, Boards, and Brain Development - Part 2
   

• 80x3 Podcast Series: Early Childhood Budgets, Boards, and Brain Development - Part 3

Supporting Sensory Needs of Young Children
Tune into 3 NEW episodes of the CICC Inclusion Matters podcast! Our guest, Alyssa Mason, Pediatric Occupational Therapist from M Health Fairview, joins us to discuss the sensory systems and sensory needs of young children in our care. This first conversation talks us through "a day in the life of a preschooler in child care,” the second addresses transitions, and the third explains how we might best support children who have experienced or may be experiencing trauma.
•  Supporting the Sensory Needs of Young Children

•  Supporting Sensory Needs Through Transitions

•  Sensory Supports for Young Children Who Have or Are Experiencing Trauma

Explore a relationship based approach in caregiving environments with young children that have been impacted by trauma. Define early childhood trauma and describe the impact on development and relationships. Identify trauma triggers and elements of healing centered environments.
•  Trauma Responsive/Healing Centered Strategies Part 1: Relationships And Environments

Explorar un enfoque basado en las relaciones en entornos de cuidado con niños pequeños que han sido impactados por trauma. Definir trauma de la primera infancia y describir el impacto en el desarrollo y las relaciones. Identificar los desencadenantes del trauma y los elementos de entornos centrados en la sanación.
•  Estrategias centradas en la respuesta/curación del trauma Parte 1: Relaciones y desarrollo 

Describe the development of children’s regulation systems, including the concept of co-regulation. Explore strategies to support the development of regulation in young children who have experienced trauma. Explain how working with traumatized children and families contributes to compassion fatigue. Plan ways to reduce or address the impact of compassion fatigue.
•  Trauma Responsive/Healing Centered Strategies Part 2: Self-Regulation For Children And Adults

Describir el desarrollo de sistemas de regulación infantil, incluyendo el concepto de corregulación. Explorar estrategias para apoyar el desarrollo de la regulación en niños que han experimentado traumas. Explicar cómo trabajar con niños y familias traumatizados contribuye a la fatiga de la compasión. Planificar formas de reducir o abordar el impacto de la fatiga de compasión.
•  Estrategias centradas en la respuesta/curación del trauma Parte 2: Autorregulación para niños y adultos (Trauma Responsive/Healing Centered Strategies Part 2: Self-Regulation For Children And Adults)