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Baby
TALK Training Overview
Personal Encounter Protocol
Training
NEW!
At Baby TALK, we use every
opportunity to grow in our understanding about families, their
unique needs, and the ways in which we can come alongside them. Over
the past year, the Baby TALK Faculty has been developing a Baby TALK
Personal Encounter Protocol: an innovative new approach to
recognizing the incredible opportunity we have in working with
parents and children. This process consists of many new elements and
areas of focus, including: preparation, assessment, affiliation,
observation, reflection and documentation.
Baby
TALK's new Personal Encounter Protocol Training is useful for any
one-on-one encounter with families including home visiting, and
interactions at clinics, hospitals, or other program settings.
Participants receive the complete Baby TALK Home Visiting
Curriculum.
Over
the past several months, we have implemented this protocol within
our local organization in Decatur, IL, and have met with tremendous
success. One Baby TALK Teacher said of the new Personal Encounter
Protocol: "The Personal Encounter Protocol prompts me to ask more
open ended questions and to listen and observe infants and parents
in a more intentional way." Another Baby TALK Teacher writes: “For
me, the Personal Encounter Protocol has become more about developing
a relationship with the parents, rather than impacting knowledge.
Hopefully the parents come away with the idea that Baby TALK is here
to be an on-going resource, rather than a one-time conversation.”
This
1-day Training is $200. Click
here to
download registration form.
Note: this Training is intended
for professionals who have completed Baby TALK Professional
Development Training and are currently using the Baby TALK
Curriculum.
Professional
Development Training
This interactive, 4-day Training
includes small group instruction, discussion, family encounters, and
visits to program sites. Training and Curriculum equip professionals
for Outreach to their communities and intensive services to at-risk
families.
Each day of Baby TALK Training
examines the critical layers that create Baby TALK’s Trustworthy
System of Relationships:
Day 1: Parent / Child
Day 2: Parent / Professional
Day 3: Professional / Local Collaborator
Day 4: BT Professional / BT Professional
Participants will spend time exploring the
Baby TALK Standards
and create a
Strategic Plan for
implementing the Baby TALK model into their community program.
In addition to the complete Baby TALK Curriculum, Training participants will also
receive:
- All Baby TALK publications
- Program site visits
- Lunch and snack provided each day
- Welcome reception with Executive Director
- Invitation to enroll in the Baby TALK Professional
Association (BTPA)
- Strategic Planning Session with Baby TALK Faculty
The intimate training experience allows us at Baby TALK to get
well acquainted with our new colleagues who then become an important
part of our organization. Training is just the beginning of
our ongoing relationship. This Training is $895. Click
here to
download registration form.
Early Childhood
Professionals Training
Baby TALK’s Early Childhood Professionals Training is
designed for professionals working in a center-based environment.
Participants will explore Baby TALK’s Approach to Families, Building
Trustworthy Systems, the Baby TALK Critical Concepts, issues with “Gatekeeping”,
having Difficult Conversations, and collaborating as an agency.
This Training is also designed to support ongoing
relationships between supervisors and staff around the Baby TALK
Curriculum.
This Training is $495. Dates and Locations TBA. For more information, please call
217.475.2234 or email
betsy@babytalk.org
Touchpoints Training
In association with the Touchpoints Project,
Touchpoints Training is a model for preventative care that focuses
on the relationship between providers and parents. Developed by Dr.
T. Berry Brazelton and his colleagues at Harvard Medical School,
this training is available in Boston, Massachusetts or in Decatur, Illinois through Baby TALK. This Training
is $1,200. Click
here to
download registration form.
For more information on any of these Trainings, please call
217.475.2234 or email
betsy@babytalk.org
BTPA
(Baby
TALK Professional Association)
The Baby TALK
Professional Association (BTPA) is a collaboration of professionals
who have experienced Baby TALK Training and are using Baby TALK
methods and materials in their work with young families. By
systemizing communication, the intention of the BTPA is to provide
ongoing support and resources to out colleagues.
Upon enrollment/re-enrollment into the BTPA, your Baby TALK
Practitioner Certification is automatically renewed.
Other benefits of the BTPA include:
- 10% discount on Baby TALK Training and Materials
- Opportunity to purchase newly updated curriculum
- Enrollment into our monthly BTPA e-newsletter
- Invitation to attend annual BTPA Conference at no cost
- Opportunity to co-host a Baby TALK Training in your area
- Opportunity to apply for Regional Baby TALK Training Team
- Targeted Technical Support for your program
- Opportunity to share research and resources within network
of experienced professionals
BTPA Annual membership fee is $40 per member. (First year after
Training is free!)
For more information on how you can join the BTPA, please contact us
at: babytalk@babytalk.org or by calling 217-475-2234.
See more info on "REGISTRATION" page
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