2022 Annual Conference
2022 Conference
2022 Conference Themes:
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Emotional Wellness and Resilience During Crisis
ParentChild+ program providers often experience the accomplishments and excitement of the families, as well as their struggles. Because home visitors tend to care about others, this relationship can often contribute to emotional distress, including burnout and compassion fatigue. In addition, the pandemic has exacerbated individual as well as collective trauma for families and staff. How does your team reflect and reset? How can ParentChild+ use time during the conference to rejuvenate? How has your team exhibited resilience despite current challenges? Presentation topics may include:
- Methods to help maintain our emotional wellness
- Strategies to support families during crisis
- Stories of family and/or staff resiliency
- Facilitating supportive reflective practice, reflective supervision and/or meetings
- Mindful practice and interactions with others
- Unique stressors on family child care (FCC) during the pandemic and how ParentChild+ can support them
- Finding support and community during crisis
- Supporting children’s understanding of viruses without fear
- Understanding signs of depression or anxiety and how to refer to further services
- Implementing practices that are more trauma informed
- Responding to your team’s stress
- Healing benefits of mindfulness, yoga, and meditation
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Professional Development Pathways
How do you inspire your team to learn new skills or refresh current ones? What have been your most impactful leadership and/or professional development activities? These pathways may include formal learning experiences, such as classes or certifications. Consider in-person and virtual modalities. Presentation topics may include:
- Conducting effective coaching, peer support, and supervision
- Implementing innovative practices and lessons learned from virtual visiting
- Incorporating a race equity framework in the context of your community
- Exploring the role of peer support in weekly group supervision
- Innovate approaches to group or individual supervision
- Professional development that has enhanced home visit practice
- Addressing the social and emotional health of the workforce
- Re-entering into the home / hybrid model options
- Addressing change Management
- Creating career pathways for program parents, early learning specialists, and/or coordinators
- Navigating Elevate
- Developmental Parenting – Next Steps
- Best Practice Principles framework
- Dialogic reading and other early learning strategies
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The Parent and Community Voice
In what way does your program collaborate with caregivers to understand their goals, needs, or strengths? How do you collect meaningful information from families and caregivers to improve service delivery? You are encouraged to include parents/caregivers as co-presenters or using family stories as the basis of the presentation. Presentation topics may include:
- Enhancing the caregiver’s voice in the home visit practice, such as co-planning
- Engaging the caregivers’ voices in your program (parent groups, advisory boards, leadership opportunities, etc.)
- Identifying family strengths and incorporating them into the home visit
- Building a responsive practice or program that reflects the family’s needs, especially in the virtual world
- Perspectives provided by former program parents who have joined the team or have become FCC/FFN provider
- Learning family stories and how those stories impact program practice and engagement
- Connecting through shared stories or shared culture
- Becoming more trauma-informed to meet families’ needs
- Centering the home visit practice in racial equity
- Cultural humility, social justice & leadership
- Community partnerships formed during the pandemic
- Creating bridges to schools and pre-kindergarten programs
- Impact of screen time for today’s child
Workshops
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May 17th
Celebrating the Power of Home Visitors!
Leadership and Professional Pathways for the Journey Ahead
May 17, 2022
12:00-1:15pm EST
Sign Up HereCelebrating the Power of Home Visitors!
Leadership and Professional Pathways for the Journey Ahead
May 17, 2022
12:00-1:15pm EST
Join us as we open this amazing day with our keynote speaker, Valora Washington!
This past two years have been unprecedented. Through it all, the power, resilience, and excellence of home visitors has been critical for countless families and young children. Looking ahead, we know it will take all of us working together to welcome the new beginnings that are possible post-pandemic. Our current role is to take the essential journey that will make life better for all children and families, as well as for our profession. Today, let’s celebrate the power of home visitors – let’s think together about the leadership and professional pathways that are essential for our journey ahead!
We begin the journey with the essentials we need to move forward: respect and honor for our colleagues who have shown so much strength under stress; information about who are children and families are, so that we can serve them well; and huge doses of courage, commitment, and compassion! Let’s talk together about moving from survival toward sustainability. Let’s leverage this moment into a movement. Each of us is powerful and resilient!
Grounded in research underlying child development, home visiting frameworks, and the Alpha Generation (children born since 2010), this session offers participants opportunities to explore new ideas and engage in reflective practice.
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How to Build Capacity From Within Your Team
How to Build Capacity From Within Your Team
Program Sustainability - An Irish Perspective
May 17, 2022
1:30-2:30pm EST
In this interactive workshop, the presenters will discuss the leadership and professional pathways afforded to Coordinators and ELS’s in Ireland. In ParentChild+ Ireland we believe modeling best practices are core values not only for home visits but also from within the workplace. Find out how we develop capacity within the national team and throughout each site to ensure we have a strong professional workforce who have opportunities to develop their skills set while moving up the career path within ParentChild+.
Key Objectives:
- Participants will understand the support and oversight given from the Irish National site to sites all over Ireland to ensure fidelity and quality assurance is adhered to.
- Participants will gain a good understanding of how ParentChild+ Ireland builds capacity on a national level by modeling from the top down.
- Participants will recognize the importance of continuous professional development and gain insights into key concepts that can be used within their own site for the growth of their team
- Participants will gain a good understanding of peer-to-peer support and how collective Coordinators and ELS’s can overcome issues through community of practice groups and peer support sessions.
- How ParentChild+ Ireland uses Community Action Research to improve standards and practices on a national level.
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What in the World is Going on?
What do we REALLY Know About how these Unprecedented Times Affect Young Children and Consequently, our Roles?
May 17, 2022
1:30-2:30pm EST
Sign Up HereWhat in the World is Going on?
What do we REALLY Know About how these Unprecedented Times Affect Young Children and Consequently, our Roles?
May 17, 2022
1:30-2:30pm EST
Take a dive into the shallow end of the preliminary research on “pandemic babies,” with additional consideration to the impact the digital age has had on child growth and development. Participants will be presented with ways to critically consider what data should inform our practice.
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Expanding Reflection in my Supervisory Practice – Session 1
Expanding Reflection in my Supervisory Practice – Session 1
For Supervisors/Coordinators
May 17, 2022
2:45-3:45pm EST
Early childhood work is hard work. Supervisors see the evidence of this every day. Research is showing that having access to Reflective Supervision (RS) is one way to lessen stress. RS creates a safe, consistent place to share vulnerabilities, and collaborate for learning and it is at the heart of working and caring for young children and their families. This practice helps us stay committed to being curious, wonder about motivations, and challenge our own beliefs, biases and judgements. It helps us be more empathic and compassionate, and less reactive.
This workshop will help you identify how you are already using reflective practices and how to expand and grow your skills.
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The Infant Mental Health Endorsement
The Infant Mental Health Endorsement
(NYS-AIMH Endorsement®)
May 17, 2022
2:45-3:45pm EST
The New York State Association for Infant Mental Health is one of 33 states and several countries offering The Endorsement for Culturally Sensitive, Relationship-Focused Practice Promoting Infant Mental Health®. This is a shared framework across all disciplines, who work with children prenatal through 6 and their families, to promote high-quality, relationship-focused practice. Learn how professionals are using this process to guide professional development and best practices, connect to other, like-minded professionals, and demonstrate specialized expertise.
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Expanding Reflection in my Supervisory Practice – Session 2
Expanding Reflection in my Supervisory Practice – Session 2
For Supervisors/Coordinators
May 17, 2022
4:00-5:00pm EST
Early childhood work is hard work. Supervisors see the evidence of this every day. Research is showing that having access to Reflective Supervision (RS) is one way to lessen stress. RS creates a safe, consistent place to share vulnerabilities, and collaborate for learning and it is at the heart of working and caring for young children and their families. This practice helps us stay committed to being curious, wonder about motivations, and challenge our own beliefs, biases and judgements. It helps us be more empathic and compassionate, and less reactive.
This workshop will help you identify how you are already using reflective practices and how to expand and grow your skills.
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Race Equity Framework
Race Equity Framework
A Panel on Organizational and Social Change
May 17, 2022
4:00-5:00pm EST
The ParentChild+ Race Equity Journey invites a panel of stakeholders to discuss the impetus, implementation and ongoing work defined in the organizational document entitled “Developing a Race Equity Framework for Our Work.” Participants will hear from the committee that drives this work forward, staff who have advanced this work in their role, participants who have had their voices heard on organizational change, as well as learn about our organization’s dedication to eradicating systemic racism in home visiting, early childhood care and education, and family support work.
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Vidya Ragoo
In the summer of 2021, Vidya joined the ParentChild+ National Center team. As Home-Based Child Care (HBCC) Director, Vidya supports the implementation and expansion of our HBCC model across the nation. Vidya believes in parent choice in child care and knows that the best environment for young children are small family-like settings that are reflective of the home culture and language. Prior to working at ParentChild+, Vidya worked on the NYS QUALITYstarsNY team to develop and establish the State’s Quality Rating and Improvement System for child care programs. She has been a community activist in her work around child care program development and the essential role it plays in improving life outcomes for children in the most vulnerable communities that face multiple toxic stressors.
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May 18th
Transition from Crisis into Recovery
Transition from Crisis into Recovery
Long-Term Resilience Building
May 18, 2022
12:00-1:15pm EST
This presentation will address the ways in which our personal and professional lives are affected
by the experience of a long-term and complex “disaster cascade”, and the mental, emotional, and
other resources necessary to find resilience in our collective recovery process. Participants will
learn about: a) current behavioral health concerns and patterns relative to the phase of recovery
we are experiencing, b) the physical and neuro-chemical processes at work that influence our
behavior, decision making and interactions with others, and c) strategies for working through grief
and loss and reconnecting with vitality in our work.Speaker
Stress, Burnout, and Gender
Challenges Faced by Women & Caregivers during the Pandemic
May 18, 2022
1:30-2:30pm EST
Sign Up HereStress, Burnout, and Gender
Challenges Faced by Women & Caregivers during the Pandemic
May 18, 2022
1:30-2:30pm EST
The past two years of the pandemic have taken their toll on all of us, especially mothers and caregivers. The pandemic has exposed the unique challenges women face as employees and caregivers. It has also uncovered the shortcomings of gender equality in the US. Mothers and caregivers report higher levels of stress and burn out, this is especially true for those who also work outside of the home. In this session, we will explore the varied impacts of the pandemic on women in the workforce. We will discuss some of the following topics: What are some of the causes of the Great Resignation? What does gender discrimination look and feel like today? Why do we think about gender the way we do? How does this impact our daily lives? Practical strategies to support well-being and time for reflection will be part of the session. This session is open to all.
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Supporting and Recognizing the ParentChild+ Team Members
Supporting and Recognizing the ParentChild+ Team Members
Through Reflective Supervision and Weekly Meetings
May 18, 2022
1:30-2:30pm EST
Providing individual and group reflection is a key component in the field of home visiting. These practices can be excellent tools to support staff members’ professional growth and development, while providing a positive environment for staff to share and reflect. Participants will see video clips of reflective supervision and team meetings to stimulate new ways to conduct these activities and to support professional well-being.
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Spark Giving!
Joyful, Service-Minded Strategies to Empower Families and Connect Communities
May 18, 2022
2:45-3:45pm EST
Sign Up HereSpark Giving!
Joyful, Service-Minded Strategies to Empower Families and Connect Communities
May 18, 2022
2:45-3:45pm EST
Emerging research continues to demonstrate that small acts of kindness and service offer a profound and measurable sense of connection, purpose, and compassion. This workshop will empower participants to tap into this powerful effect with practical strategies and creative tools to get started.
Creating fun, meaningful opportunities for families to serve others can be a joyful opportunity to nurture social connections and a sense of purpose, all while making a meaningful difference for your community. Learn more about the many-layered and timely benefits family volunteer opportunities can have on youth outcomes, family bonds, and community culture. Explore a variety of strategies for on-the-spot and virtual family service opportunities that spark the spirit of giving and discover innovative tools that encourage big-hearted reflection and generosity long after your event has concluded.
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Coping in 2022
Coping in 2022
Emotional health or disorder?
May 18, 2022
4:00-5:00pm EST
The past few years have brought much distress to people all over the world. With a global pandemic, economic concerns, social injustice, climate change, and war, there is much to cope with daily. When working with children and families, it is important to take these factors into consideration for the professionals who provide the service as well as the family members. The objectives of this presentation are: 1) Identify strategies that can be used to minimize distress, 2) Discuss differences between anxiety and anxiety disorders, 3) Describe depressive symptoms, and 4) List useful resources.
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The Cost of Caring
The Cost of Caring
Nurturing the Nurturers
May 18, 2022
4:00-5:00pm EST
The Cost of Caring: Nurturing the Nurturer, is designed to provide practical strategies to support, supervisors and staff, who bear witness to the stress and trauma of others, in their daily work. We will explore the concepts of Compassion Fatigue, Vicarious Trauma and Burn-Out, and identify risk factors associated with each. Participants will create an individualized self-care plan, designed to help manage stress and support their own health and wellness. Participants will be encouraged to identify, one self-care strategy that can be incorporated, their daily lives.
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May 19th
Adapting to the Needs of Families in the Community
Adapting to the Needs of Families in the Community
May 19, 2022
1:30-2:30pm EST
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See how Ireland have adapted their curriculum and practice to become a more inclusive programme while ensuring fidelity to the programme. - Have a good understanding of the extra supports offered to the families on the Parentchild+ programme in Ireland.
- Gain an insight to how Parentchild+ Ireland empowers and strengthens the parents/care givers capacity to enhance the Childs learning environment to the best of their ability.
- Be more informed on the positive impact ParentChild+ has on families to ensure better outcomes within the community.
In the workshop the presenters will discuss how ParentChild+ Daughters of Charity Community Services in Ireland engage and support families, in the home and within their community. This interactive workshop will include videos/photos and quotes from parents/caregivers as well as first-hand knowledge from one of the presenters who was originally a parent on the programme and is now an ELS. Participants will give practical examples of their responsiveness to families which participants can use in their own practice. See how Daughters of Charity Community Services have pivoted the programme to meet the needs of the families and the children they serve
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Creation of the Caregiver Community Changers
Creation of the Caregiver Community Changers
A Family Centered Design Process in Philadelphia
May 19, 2022
1:30-2:30pm EST
In 2020 ParentChild+ and PHMC project team were selected as one of four program teams to participate in the Philadelphia Parent Innovation Institute. The Institute brought early childhood organizations and the families with whom they work together to learn family-centered design so they can strengthen family engagement in early literacy and language programs for Philadelphia’s youngest learners. From January-June 2021, ParentChild+, PHMC staff and two ParentChild+ parent graduates worked collaboratively to identify program challenges to solve together. The process involved co-designing and rapid cycle learning to create high impact solutions that support quality early childhood experiences and meet the real needs of families with young children. At the end of the project the team decided to pilot a Parent-Led Committee, called the Caregiver Community Changers. The purpose of this group is to give current and graduated families the opportunity to connect and receive support with transitions to Pre-K and Kindergarten, job training and participate in decision-making for the Philadelphia ParentChild+ program. Participation in the Parent Innovation Institute has deepened our commitment to incorporating parent voice in program operations and gave us new skills to ensure that we are doing that. The project team will present a short description of the process and participants will have an opportunity to ask questions of team members. Workshop participants will be able to discuss key components of family voice in the Family Centered Design process.
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Math is Literacy
Math is Literacy
May 19, 2022
2:45-3:45pm EST
This workshop addresses math learning through the lens of racial equity, addressing the need to support children and families in their existing family structures. You’ll learn about the Zeno Math approach, why we center racial equity, and our Five Zeno Practices, which are key for engaging families in the growing movement to spread the love of math. The intention of this workshop is to desensitize systemic stigmas and draw each participant and each program family to their best, innate, MATH SELF!
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The Importance of Parent Voice on Boards and Advisory Committees
The Importance of Parent Voice on Boards and Advisory Committees
How, When, Why?
May 19, 2022
2:45-3:45pm EST
After several years of wanting to engage home visiting customers in their work, the National Home Visiting Network—a network of leaders in policy, research, and practice—finally opened their Advisory Committee table to include parents in 2021. Hear from the network’s first group of parent leaders about bringing their experience as home visiting recipients to the discussions of the network. Learn why they wanted to join the Network Advisory Committee, how it felt to come into a group that was already established, the contributions they have been able to make to the network, and what their participation means to them personally. The network’s co-facilitator and parents will also share the practices that have been put in place to support their full participation, including on-boarding practices monthly parent leader prep and debrief meetings, mentors, and compensation for time and childcare. Join the conversation about how to build parent voice and representation into all our work at the local, state, and national level.
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Windows, Mirrors and Doors
Highlighting Underrepresented Populations in Children’s Books
May 19, 2022
4:00-5:00pm EST
Sign Up HereWindows, Mirrors and Doors
Highlighting Underrepresented Populations in Children’s Books
May 19, 2022
4:00-5:00pm EST
In 2020, ParentChild+ studied the content of over 550 books used throughout our national network of sites. We discovered that 94% of the families we serve are families of color—but only 13% of our books had authors and illustrators of color. We also discovered that as recently as 2016, people of color accounted for less than a third of all children’s book characters, nationally. We all know storytellers matter just as much as the story. Without storytellers of color, children miss out on narratives that affirm their lives and the transcendent power of literature. As a part of our mission, we launched the Windows, Mirrors and Doors series to highlight the importance of representation in children’s books. Each installment featured an engaging group of panelists on topics such as representation of Black/African American, Latinx, Asian/Asian-American, First Nations and Individuals with Disability, in children’s books. This session is a continuation of this work and features ParentChild+ West Philadelphia Site Coordinator, Monica Allison and her book, Our Family is Different and author, Shirin Shamsi and her book, Zahra’s Blessing: A Ramadan Story. Our Family is Different encourages conversations to help us all realize we are more similar than we are different, while reading about diverse representations of families. Zhara’s Blessing: A Ramadan Story, shares the story of a young girl and the unexpected blessing she receives during Ramadan. We hope this session will spark interest and curiosity about characters and topics not often seen in children’s books as well as offer the audience an opportunity to reflect on ways to introduce content like this to families that they work with.
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Purpose, Passion & Power
Uplifting community-centered approaches that connect families and neighbors to drive community change
May 19, 2022
4:00-5:00pm EST
Sign Up HerePurpose, Passion & Power
Uplifting community-centered approaches that connect families and neighbors to drive community change
May 19, 2022
4:00-5:00pm EST
Uplifting community-centered approaches that connect families and neighbors to their purpose, passion, and power to drive community change. Hear from Camille Llanes-Fontanilla, a parent, grassroots organizer, and philanthropist who worked in and with family members and residents to address community needs in a place-based, multi-generational approach. Bright spots, key learnings, and real talk on the challenges will be unearthed. Come for a lively discussion!
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Register Now!
Start your registration process for the ParentChild+ Annual Conference by filling out the form below.
The $240 registration fee includes:
- Live access to over 15 unique keynote and workshop sessions. (If you are a ParentChild+ site, the fee includes registration for all site staff)
- Live translations of keynotes and some key workshop sessions about home visiting practice.
- Access to all recorded sessions.
Conference FAQ’s
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Save the Date
The ParentChild+ virtual conference will take place from Tuesday, May 17 to Thursday, May 19, 2022 from 12:00 to 5:00 EST on the Zoom webinar platform. Please send calendar invitations to your team now!
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Fees
Registration fee is by site. The $240 fee gives all Early Learning Specialists and Coordinators at your site access to the conference content.
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Payment Options
After you register, a confirmation email will be sent to the designated point person with a list of detailed payment options. ParentChild+ accepts ACH, check, Zelle, or credit card payments. Check and ACH payments must be coordinated by emailing Dina Shahverdi at dshahverdi@parentchildplus.org.
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Schedule and Conference Sessions
Details Conference session details will be available in mid-April. Once available, we will share passwords to allow attendees access to webinar registration pages so they can select their individualized conference schedule. Passwords to access the webinars will be sent to you and your team approximately one month before the conference.
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Workshop Submissions
A reminder that workshop ideas and/or submissions should be received by close of business on March 1st. Please go here to submit a workshop proposal. If you have questions about the process, please email mmorrison@parentchildplus.org.
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Live Translations
We will be translating keynote workshops as well as workshops that are particular to the ParentChild+ home visit practice.
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