Podcast

Sarah Hawley RN, BSN, PHN of Minnesota Child Care Health Consultants is back with us again to discuss brain building in early childhood.  She shares important research about this critical time of brain growth and how we as early educators can foster lifelong success for the children in our care. 

We welcome our strong partner Sarah Hawley RN, BSN, PHN of Minnesota Child Care Health Consultants back again for a conversation about injury prevention in the early childhood setting.  We discuss key techniques that promote safe care for all young children and their adult caregivers. 

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? 

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.

Join us for this important episode of Inclusion Matters as we discuss critical information for all those interacting with young children.  Our expert guests, Gina Liverseed, CMV Nurse Specialist, Minnesota Department of Health, and Amanda Devereaux, Program Director, National CMV Foundation, give an overview of CMV or Cytomegalovirus, share facts about who is at risk, how it is spread, symptoms, treatment, and ways that we can deter the spread of CMV in early childhood settings.

Need More Information? 

• Talk to your healthcare provider.

• Minnesota Department of Health website:  Health.mn.gov/CMV

• National CMV Foundation: Nationalcmv.org

Join us for this important episode of Inclusion Matters as we discuss critical information for all those interacting with young children.  Our expert guests, Gina Liverseed, CMV Nurse Specialist, Minnesota Department of Health, and Amanda Devereaux, Program Director, National CMV Foundation, give an overview of CMV or Cytomegalovirus, share facts about who is at risk, how it is spread, symptoms, treatment, and ways that we can deter the spread of CMV in early childhood settings.

Need More Information? 

• Talk to your healthcare provider.

• Minnesota Department of Health website:  Health.mn.gov/CMV

• National CMV Foundation: Nationalcmv.org