The Devereux Early Childhood Assessment for Infants and Toddlers (DECA I/T)

Date:

February 17, 2009

Location:

Time:

Registration begins at 8:00 AM
Training is from 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM

Cost:

No Fee

Details:

Lunch will NOT be served.

The Devereux Early Childhood Assessment for Infants and Toddlers (DECA I/T) Program is a strength-based system designed to promote the protective factors central to social and emotional health and resilience in our youngest children. These protective factors are Initiative, Attachment/Relationships and Self-regulation.

In this one day training participants will:

• Learn about resilience theory and protective factors central to supporting infant and toddler resilience,
• Learn how to administer, score and summarize results of the Devereux Early Childhood Assessment.
• Discuss how these results can be used to support outcome measurement within the Early On^® system.
• Gain experience with planning for and measuring change in individual children's attachment/relationships, initiative and self-regulation using newly released resources;
• DECA-I/T Strategies Guide and
• For Now and Forever, A Family Guide for Supporting Social and Emotional Health Strategies are research based, fun and easy to do within a home setting

Who Can Attend?

Attendees can include Early On staff who 1) complete assessments as a regular part of their job and/or 2) persons that are currently writing IFSPs and/or providing service coordination to families on a regular basis and 3) Early On Coordinators or those who support Early On staff regularly

Follow up webinars offered:

Follow up webinars will also be offered on two other DECA-I/T Program elements to include, 1) The Caregiving Environment (home and group) and 2) Adult Resilience. Stay tuned for these upcoming opportunities by checking the EOT&TA website at http://eotta.ccresa.org/ or you may contact EOT &TA directly at 866-334-5437

Any questions, please call Julie Helmer at 269-629-9629 or email her at helmerj@michigan.gov

Trainers:

Julie Helmer