Supporting Families with Premature Babies - Pilot

Date:

September 19, 2011

Location:

Time:

Registration begins at 8:15 AM
Training is from 8:45 AM to 4:30 PM
Continental Breakfast will be served.
Lunch will be served.

Cost:

$40.00

Details:

Supporting Families with Premature Babies

Who can attend?
This training is in the ‘pilot' phase and is intended for Early On staff only who meet any of the following criteria:

• are currently writing IFSP's and/or providing service coordination to families with children born prematurely, at less than 37 weeks gestational age;
• are Early On Coordinators or others who may supervise direct service providers;
• and those who support Early On staff regularly as part of the early intervention assessment and planning team.

Supporting Families with Premature Babies offers early intervention professionals an overview of the key issues that influence the healthy development of a premature child in the context of their family. This training will increase awareness of protective factors and potential difficulties typically encountered by premature babies and their families and present an approach to evaluating, observing, coaching and planning with families to support the child's successful adjustment to the world outside the womb.

In this one day training participants will:

• Learn how premature babies' routines of feeding, sleeping, socializing, self soothing and moving around are similar and yet distinctly different from the full term baby.
• Learn how a premature birth affects the child and the family.
• Gain awareness of strategies and resources to support: the transition from the NICU and/or intermittent hospital stays; accurate interpretation the baby's signals; development of self- regulatory, organized behaviors in functional routines such as eating, holding, playing and sleeping; parental confidence and attachment with their baby.
• Learn about the Developmental Survey for Premature and Young Infants and how it can be used with families for assessment, ongoing education and planning together.
• Be introduced to seven best practices for working with families with a premature baby.

SB CEU's and SW CEU are offered pending approval

Trainers:

Meg McSweeney