2025 Upcoming Scheduled Trainings
May 2025
May 14, 2025
Webinar
Early On Center Coursework Connections Webinar With support from Early On Center for Higher Education, the presenters recently conducted a research study examining how confident Early Intervention Specialists feel in their skills and how prepared they believe they are to work with infants and toddlers (birth to age three) with disabilities and their families. Based on their findings, they developed a concise guide for higher education institutions. This resource focuses on key aspects suc... More
May 14, 2025
Webinar
We are offering PICCOLO Interventions on May 15. We have found it helpful for staff to attend both trainings but it is not mandatory to attend both to use the PICCOLO Assessment. The PICCOLO is a checklist of 29 observable behaviors in 4 domains. It is reliable, valid, easy to learn and practical to use. The PICCOLO is a tool that can be used to assess strengths, reveal needs, and monitor change. In this training participants will learn about the 4 domains of the PICC... More
May 15, 2025
Webinar
This training takes the use of the PICCOLO to that next level as we will discuss how to enhance your use of the PICCOLO with families. Training will include: how to introduce use of the PICCOLO with families ways to process PICCOLO feedback with families developing intervention strategies using PICCOLO results through the Bridging technique using the PICCOLO to evaluate and document treatment progress over time using the PICCOLO to evaluate and document program outcomes Training requi... More
May 28, 2025
Marquette-Alger RESA, Marquette
The 2025 System Updates for Early On Coordinators will be offered in-person, in 4 different locations across the state. We will bring together Early On Coordinators, Michigan Department of Lifelong Education, Advancement, and Potential-Early On Consultants, and Early On Training and Technical Assistance, to provide information, discuss current topics and share resources. Agenda of Topics: MiLEAP Updates Playgroups and Natural Environments 1862 FTE Calculation Data Q & A&n... More
May 29, 2025
Webinar
Grand Valley State University early intervention researchers have developed an assessment tool designed for use with premature and young infants, up to five months of age, given the limited assessment resources available for use with very young children. The Premature and Young Infant DevelopmentAssessment Tool [PYIDAT] research team is in the process ofestablishing reliability and validity of the tool. The assessment tool identifies developmental abilities and delays, is a quantitative measurem... More
May 29, 2025
Marquette-Alger RESA, Marquette
This session will focus on using the child's and family's routines as the foundation of early intervention. There are three distinct times that routines can be targeted: 1)while gathering assessment information 2) while formulating IFSP Outcomes and 3) while using intervention strategies. Participants will leave this session feeling confident in understanding why it is important to use a routines base model of assessment and intervention. This is an in-person training. &n... More
June 2025
June 03, 2025
Kent Co. Early On, Grand Rapids
The 2025 System Updates for Early On Coordinators will be offered in-person, in 4 different locations across the state. We will bring together Early On Coordinators, Michigan Department of Lifelong Education, Advancement, and Potential-Early On Consultants, and Early On Training and Technical Assistance, to provide information, discuss current topics and share resources. Agenda of Topics: MiLEAP Updates Playgroups and Natural Environments 1862 FTE Calculation Data Q & A&n... More
June 04, 2025
Webinar
Join us for a Child Outcomes Summary (COS) Office Hour session where you can log on and ask questions about the COS Process. The new COS manual has recently been updated and can be found here. The manual is resource developed to assist you in understanding the requirements and important processes in child outcomes as they apply to Early On and Preschool Special Education. If you have questions that arise from reviewing the manual or questions about how your COS process works, com... More
June 05, 2025
Webinar
This virtual training is designed to assist personnel in understanding the federal and state requirements regarding Child Outcomes and the associated SPP/APR Indicators for C-3 (ages 0-3) and B-7 (ages 3-5). Participants will be presented with information about the origins of the outcomes and the overarching goal as well as the three global outcomes. Information and practice will also be provided regarding the skills and information needed to accurately collect a... More
June 06, 2025
Genesee ISD Special Education Services, Flint
The 2025 System Updates for Early On Coordinators will be offered in-person, in 4 different locations across the state. We will bring together Early On Coordinators, Michigan Department of Lifelong Education, Advancement, and Potential-Early On Consultants, and Early On Training and Technical Assistance, to provide information, discuss current topics and share resources. Agenda of Topics: MiLEAP Updates Playgroups and Natural Environments 1862 FTE Calculation Data Q & A ... More
June 11, 2025
Webinar
The Massie Campbell ADS is an observational tool that is scored by the clinician after a “brief” observation during a home visit. The Massie Campbell ADS is a scale using 6 basic attachment modalities that provides indicators of mother/father/caregiver attachment. The scale helps to screens for conditions as diverse as lack of infant responsiveness in autism or parental avoidance in child neglect. The scale is designed for infants and toddlers (birth to 18 mon... More
June 16, 2025
Webinar
In this 180-minute virtual training, participants will: Describe the development and psychometrics of the assessment tools, Learn how to administer and interpret the assessments, including analysis and advanced interpretation, and Gain experience in using the assessments as tools to guide professionals and families in developing strength-based and intentional plans to reduce challenging behavior and increase social and emotional skills in young children effectively and r... More
June 17, 2025
Clare-Gladwin RESD, Clare
The 2025 System Updates for Early On Coordinators will be offered in-person, in 4 different locations across the state. We will bring together Early On Coordinators, Michigan Department of Lifelong Education, Advancement, and Potential-Early On Consultants, and Early On Training and Technical Assistance, to provide information, discuss current topics and share resources. Agenda of Topics: MiLEAP Updates Playgroups and Natural Environments 1862 FTE Calculation Data Q & A&n... More
July 2025
July 11, 2025
Webinar
We are offering PICCOLO Interventions on July 15. We have found it helpful for staff to attend both trainings but it is not mandatory to attend both to use the PICCOLO Assessment. The PICCOLO is a checklist of 29 observable behaviors in 4 domains. It is reliable, valid, easy to learn and practical to use. The PICCOLO is a tool that can be used to assess strengths, reveal needs, and monitor change. In this training participants will learn about the 4 domains of the PICCOLO ... More
July 15, 2025
Webinar
This training takes the use of the PICCOLO to that next level as we will discuss how to enhance your use of the PICCOLO with families. Training will include: how to introduce use of the PICCOLO with families ways to process PICCOLO feedback with families developing intervention strategies using PICCOLO results through the Bridging technique using the PICCOLO to evaluate and document treatment progress over time using the PICCOLO to evaluate and document program outcomes Training requi... More
July 29, 2025
Webinar
This more in-depth virtual training is geared to clinicians and practitioners who are new to assessment processes or who want a deeper dive into the theory and application of this tool. In this training participants will: Learn about resilience theory and protective factors central to supporting resilience for infants, toddlers, and children aged 0-6. Learn how to administer, score, and summarize results of the Devereux Early Childhood Assessment. Discuss how these results can be used to s... More
August 2025
August 07, 2025
Webinar
IDA Practicum Module 2: Module two is offered in a five and half hour interactive Zoom training and will focus on the application of knowledge gained in section one of the Module 1 online training. It is required to have completed the online prerequisite material before registering for Module 2 IDA Practicum. Once registered for the Practicum participants will receive an email with materials to support this training/module.
August 18, 2025
Webinar
This virtual training is designed to assist personnel in understanding the federal and state requirements regarding Child Outcomes and the associated SPP/APR Indicators for C-3 (ages 0-3) and B-7 (ages 3-5). Participants will be presented with information about the origins of the outcomes and the overarching goal as well as the three global outcomes. Information and practice will also be provided regarding the skills and information needed to accurately collect a... More
August 26, 2025
Webinar
The PICCOLO is a checklist of 29 observable behaviors in 4 domains. It is reliable, valid, easy to learn and practical to use. The PICCOLO is a tool that can be used to assess strengths, reveal needs, and monitor change. In this training participants will learn about the 4 domains of the PICCOLO and how to score the domains. Participants will learn how to identify how each parent shows their strengths and strategies and techniques to support positive parenting. ... More
September 2025
September 03, 2025
Webinar
This meeting is designed specifically to support all personnel responsible for Child Find activities whose work includes identifying and evaluating children, birth through age five, with delays and or/disabilities and their families. This discussion will provide the opportunity to learn from each other about what's happening in Child Find in your area (consider referral numbers, capacity to evaluate and provide services, etc.), what strategies you are using to address personnel shortages, ... More
September 08, 2025
Webinar
The Pyramid Model for Infant-Toddler Social-Emotional Development is an evidence-based framework designed to support the healthy development of young children byfostering social-emotional competence, promoting positive relationships, and preventingchallenging behaviors. During this 5-part training, participants will receive interactivelearning experiences, hands-on activities, real-world application strategies, and accessto resources that support implementation in their daily practice. Additiona... More
September 09, 2025
Webinar
This interactive training will introduce participants to a new parent-child interaction guideand strategies to strengthen service providers’ observation and practice skills to supportcritical relationship-based attunement between infants, toddlers, and the adults whocare for them. This training was developed as part of follow-up to a 2021 surveycompleted by Early On coordinators and service providers in which over 90% of allrespondents felt that access to parent-child ... More
September 23, 2025
Webinar
This more in-depth virtual training is geared to clinicians and practitioners who are new to assessment processes or who want a deeper dive into the theory and application of this tool. In this training participants will: Learn about resilience theory and protective factors central to supporting resilience for infants, toddlers, and children aged 0-6. Learn how to administer, score, and summarize results of the Devereux Early Childhood Assessment. Discuss how these results can be used to s... More
September 29, 2025
Webinar
This is a live, 2 hour virtual training that provides a combined DECA-I/T and DECA Clinical refresher for those implementing one or both of these tools in their day to day practices. Main elements of the tool and new case studies are used to help participants dialogue and reflect to ensure DECA tools are being implemented with fidelity. Participants are required to have been trained in the DECA I/T and/or DECA Clinical by a certified trainer (MI’s Julie Helmer or Mary Mackrain or a Devereu... More