Searching for webinars and trainings about child development, early support, or developmental screening? This page offers short, free, and online resources for both families and health professionals.
For Parents and Guardians
From Informing Families (12 minutes each)
- Navigating Your Way: Ages Birth to Three
Get a quick overview of services and supports available for children from birth to age 3. - Navigating Your Way: Ages Three to Six
Learn about the changes that come with moving from early support services into the school system. This video offers information about developmental preschool, kindergarten, and first grade.
From PAVE (3 minutes each)
- Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA): What does it mean in WA?
Learn about all four parts of IDEA, the nation’s special education law which gives rights and protections to kids with disabilities. - Medical Home
A medical home creates a coordinated team and a coordinated care plan around all your child’s medical needs.
For Providers
Webinars
- Developmental Screening and Early Intervention: Perspectives from Spanish-Speaking Families and Family Navigators
- Washington Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics (60 minutes)
- WCAAP members and staff share perspectives from interviews with Spanish-speaking parents and Harborview Pediatric Clinic Family Navigators about developmental screening and early intervention processes.
- Developmental Surveillance: What, Why and How
- American Academy of Pediatrics (6 minutes)
- Pediatrician, Dr. Shelly Flais, discusses developmental surveillance recommendations, tips, and resources available to clinicians, nonphysician clinicians, and families. Learn how healthcare providers and care teams can use surveillance and screening to promote the optimal development of children.
- How Early Childhood Experiences Affect Lifelong Health and Learning
- Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University (5 minutes)
- Understand how early experiences with poverty, discrimination, racism, and trauma can affect early learning, school readiness, and lifelong health.
- Pushing Past Conflicts with Adults: Navigating Uncomfortable Conversations in Early Childhood
- edWeb (60 minutes)
- Tips for navigating challenging conversations in early childhood programs. Embrace differences and meet families and colleagues where they are by taking a positive approach.
Trainings
- Great MINDS: Universal Developmental Screening
- Washington Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics
- A self-paced online training series for primary care providers. Learn how to integrate Universal Developmental Screening and referrals to early intervention into your workflow, increase the number of patients screened, and talk with families about the importance of early intervention, and share resources. Additional training in screening, referrals and resources are available in the training center.
- Relationship-based Practices: Talking with Families About Developmental Concerns
- Office of Head Start’s National Center on Parent, Family, and Community Engagement (30 minutes)
- Try an interactive simulation to practice using relationship-based communications skills to raise and discuss concerns about a child’s development with their family.
- Downloadable document: Talking With Families About Their Child’s Development (PDF)
- Watch Me! Celebrating Milestones and Sharing Concerns
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (60 minutes)
- An online training for early care and education providers with tools. Learn best practices to monitor milestones, track development, and talk with families about what you notice.
- Also available in Spanish. Click on the toggle button on the upper right corner of the screen to change the language.
- WA INCLUDE Collaborative
- INCLUDE (Interdisciplinary Network of Community Leaders with a focus on the Underserved and Disability Education) focuses on the intersection of developmental disability, mental health, and physical health in order to improve the quality of life for people and families with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and related presentations. Action through sharing of knowledge and perspectives, training of skills and strategies and supporting workforce capacity building to provide care in local communities. Register for the Washington INCLUDE Collaborative to access free trainings, resources and community events.
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