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Our Resource Library contains materials and assistance for early childhood educators and those they serve. Explore our selection of podcasts, tip sheets, websites, documents, and self-study courses.
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| Resource Name | Description | Resource Type |
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| Parent Cell Phone Use Can Halt a Child’s Language Learning | Researchers at Temple University’s Language Learning Lab found that children are less likely to learn a new word when a phone call interrupts the child’s conversation with their parent. To learn more about this research, check out this video interview with researcher Dr. Kathy Hirsh-Pasek. | Website |
| Parenting and the Development of Children’s Emotions | Ever wondered how children learn to share their feelings? Studies reveal that three main factors observed in parents help determine how children will express their emotions. These are: 1) how parents display their own emotions, 2) how parents respond to the child's emotions, 3) and the family's overall emotional demeanor. Learn more from this video and article, in English and Spanish. | |
| Parenting Children with Special Needs During COVID-19 | Parenting a child with special needs or chronic conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic requires drawing on your strengths and returning to the basics. | Website |
| Parents Forever - Purdue Extension | Families face many challenges and sometimes have to deal with transitions. Parents Forever © is an educational program for families experiencing divorce, separation, or a change in child custody. Participants will receive a certificate after completing the 4-hour in-person program or online course. The cost for either program format is $50. After completing a Parents Forever © course, participants will be able to:Describe the family transition journey and how each family member will be affectedRecognize the role of self-care, parent-child relationships, and co-parenting in child well-beingIdentify internal and external resources and use these resources to promote resilience in the family units. For in-person classes, contact your local county Purdue HHS Extension Educator | Website |
| Part 2: Supporting Infants and Toddlers through Extended Separations and Reunions | In this second part of our discussion, we are joined again by CICC Coaching Manager, Beth Menninga. This segment focuses on extended separations and reunions with infants and toddlers. We discuss military deployment, divorce/break up or split households, work travel, incarceration, foster care, hospitalization, immigration related separations, teacher leaves, and change of classroom or care setting. | Podcast |
| Partnering with Parents--Building a Supportive Relationship | Priscilla Weigel spends time with Michele Fallon, Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultant discussing the essential connection with families when you are caring for young children. The two examine ways to provide parents the opportunity to be heard and supported, in order to build healthy foundations. | Podcast |
| Partnering with Parents--Cultivating A Relationship | Michelle Fallon, Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultant, joins Priscilla Weigel to discuss the ways in which child care providers can promote healthy parent/child and family relationships and how the quality of the relationship between parents and providers can impact the child. | |
| Partnering with Parents--Healthy and Supportive Boundaries | Michele Fallon, Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultant, joins Priscilla Weigel to continue their discussion about partnering with families. The focus of this podcast communicates the way healthy boundaries relate to the significant partnership with a parent. Tips are shared for ways to build connection. | Podcast |
| PATHWAYS OF EXPOSURE TO POTENTIALLY HARMFUL CHEMICALS | During the 2009 legislative session, the Toxic Free Kids Act was passed and signed into law by the governor. This legislation requires the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) to create two lists of chemicals: one list called “Chemicals of High Concern” and one called “Priority Chemicals.”The Toxic Free Kids (TFK) program is housed in the Environmental Surveillance and Assessment Section within the Environmental Health Division and supports the MDH mission to protect, maintain, and improve the health of all Minnesotans.The Toxic Free Kids program has created a brief factsheet explaining toxic chemical exposures. It is available in English, Hmong, Somali, and Spanish. | |
| PKD Foundation | The PKD Foundation site has research information, friends and groups chat forums and contacts, legislative action alerts, news, self-produced publications, conference information and very well categorized links related to Polycystic Kidney Disease and issues concerning it's treatment and diagnosis. Information in other languages is available, however it is not administered or monitored by PKD Foundation. | Website |
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