Training for Parents

Online Parent Trainings

2021-2022 Parent Training Letter

Acknowledgement of Parent Training Requirement

2021-2022 Carta Sobre Capacitaciónes para Padres y Reconocimiento

Steps to complete parent trainings

1. Choose ONE training topic below.
2. Next, click on the training title to watch desired training.
3. After participating in the training, please complete the corresponding Quiz/Evaluation.
4. After Smart Start staff has reviewed the quiz/evaluation, your certificate of completion will be emailed to you.
5. If you would like training handouts, please email the title of your training to
jand@partnershipforchildren.org.

Helping Children Understand Their World (all age children)

Come and learn some hands-on activities to do with your child that will help them understand their world.

Quiz & Evaluation–Helping Children Understand Thier World

Hour Training

Please fill out an evaluation form with each training:

Safety in the Home (all age children)

Home safety tips and information for parents of young children

Quiz & Evaluation–Safety in the Home

Hour Training

Please fill out an evaluation form with each training:

Communicating with your Infant/Toddler: “Talking Sense” (Infant/Toddler children)

“Talking Sense” children already have all the tools they need to learn about their world: their 5 senses. Just about anything they see, hear, feel touch or taste can springboard excitement.

Quiz & Evaluation–Communicating with your Infant/Toddler: Talking is Teaching “Talking Sense”

Hour Training

Please fill out an evaluation form with each training:

Talking is Teaching: Read to Me (Infant/Toddler children)

Reading strategies and tips on shared reading to highlight the fun and joy that reading together can bring.

Quiz & Evaluation–Talking is Teaching

Hour Training

Please fill out an evaluation form with each training:

The Value of Play (preschool age children)

Learn about all the things children learn while they are playing!

Quiz & Evaluation–The Value of Play

Hour Training

Please fill out an evaluation form with each training:

Social Emotional Behavior (Dealing with Challenging Behaviors) (preschool age children)

Your child develops in many different areas simultaneously. Social emotional development refers to how your child learns to manage and express their emotions and interact with others. Their social/emotional growth as an infant or toddler affects their development in all other areas, and will have an impact on their relationships with others.

Quiz & Evaluation–Social Emotional Behaviors (Dealing with Challenging Behaviors)

Hour Training

Please fill out an evaluation form with each training:

Hablar Es Enseñar: ¡Léemelo!

Hoy un lector, mañana un líder. Leer y hablar son unas de las cosas más beneficiosas que puede hacer para fomentar el desarrollo de la mente y de las habilidades del pensamiento en los bebés y niños pequeños. La lectura y el hecho de hablar con su niño/a lo preparan para tener éxito en la escuela y más tarde en el trabajo. Este entrenamiento le ofrece una serie de estrategias y juegos sencillos que puede utilizar con su hijo/a durante algunos minutos cada día para aprovechar al máximo los beneficios de la lectura y prepararle a su hijo/a un futuro exitoso.

Prueba/Evaluación

Hour Training

Please fill out an evaluation form with each training:

Eating and the Young Child

Creating a healthy eating environment, both at home for your infant or toddler is the best way to help him or her develop healthy eating habits that will likely last into adulthood.

Quiz & Evaluation–Eating and the Young Child

Hour Training

Please fill out an evaluation form with each training: