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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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Helping Children Deal With Grief | “Most young children are aware of death, even if they don’t understand it. Death is a common theme in cartoons and television, and some of your child’s friends may have already lost a loved one. But experiencing grief firsthand is a different and often confusing process for kids.” To learn more, check out this resource from The Child Mind Institute. | Website |
Helping Children Understand Emotions When Wearing Masks | From The National Center for Pyramid Model Innovations (NCPMI): "Young children look for emotional cues from caregivers to help interpret the environment and rely on their caregiver’s facial expressions, tone of voice, and body posture to identify and understand emotions. Here are tips and ideas for helping children identify emotions when your face, your most expressive feature, is covered by a mask. Use these strategies to let children know that behind the mask, a kind and warm expression is still there!" | Document |
Helping Infants and Toddlers Adjust to Divorce | When working with young children and their families, early care and education professionals sometimes find themselves in the position of helping children cope and work through changes in their family systems. One such change that undoubtedly has an effect on young children is divorce. | Document |
Helping Kids Grieve | “Coping with the death of a loved one brings enormous challenges for the whole family. Grieving may never completely end, but working through the difficult feelings can become easier with time. Through support, open conversations, and finding ways to keep the person’s memory alive, families can begin healing together.” Here is a resource from Sesame Street in Communities. | Website |
Helping the Child Who is Anxious | Explore causes of typical anxiousness in young children and learn to recognize red flags that may signal atypical anxiety. Discover ways to help children develop a sense of safety and security through their relationship with their primary caregivers.Knowledge and Competency Framework Area - II.C: Promoting Social and Emotional Development CDA Content Area - III: Positive ways to support children’s social and emotional development 🔊 This course includes Audio and is accessible from a mobile device. For optimal performance, viewing from a computer or tablet is highly recommended. For ten clock hours on your Learning Record, please register and pay online at Develop. Then, complete a 500 word reflection paper and submit this document with your reflection. Please note: You have access to this document as view only. To enable editing, download the document. Click "file" then "download as" in the upper left-hand corner of this screen. This will give you the option to open the document as a Word doc on your own computer. Then, you can complete the information and email it to: credit@inclusivechildcare.org. *Disregard any directions regarding a final quiz. The only learning assessment needed is the reflection paper. | Course |
Helping the Child Who is Anxious: Early Childhood to School Age | This info module explores how anxiety can impact young children and strategies for support. | Info Module |
Helping Toddlers Understand Emotion | The strategy of helping toddlers understand emotion may reduce behavioral problems later on, finds a federally funded study led by a Michigan State University researcher. The study, published in the September 2015 issue of the Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, could ultimately help those most in need. Toddlers with higher risk, specifically those with more behavioral problems and from the most disadvantaged families, benefited most from being taught about emotion by their mothers. | Document |
Helping Young Children Who Have Experienced Trauma: Policies and Strategies for Early Care and Education | Early childhood trauma occurs when a young child experiences an event that causes actual harm or poses a serious threat to the child's emotional and physical well-being. These events range from experiencing abuse and neglect to having a parent with substance abuse issues or being separated from a parent. Trauma is different from regular life stressors because it causes a sense of intense fear, terror, and helplessness that is beyond the normal range for typical experiences. | Document |
Henry Occupational Therapy Services, Inc. | Diana A. Henry, MS, OTR/L, FAOTA and Henry OT Services, Inc. offer school based and individual occupational therapy services to support the mandates of 'No Child Left Behind'. Along with her husband, Rick Ruess, they provide products and workshops across the USA and internationally. Our mission is to promote understanding and awareness of issues related to sensory processing, sensory integration and the sensory systems. These may influence attention, motor coordination, social participation, behavior and even violence in schools. | Website |
Historical Trauma and Cultural Healing | The recent event of George Floyd’s murder happened within a context of historical trauma experienced by African Americans throughout U.S. history. The experiences of genocide, massacres, slavery, relocation and destruction of cultural practices shared by African Americans and other communities of color can result in cumulative emotional and psychological wounding carried across generations, a concept that researchers and practitioners call "historical trauma." This resource is from the Univerisity of Minnesota Extension. | Website |
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