Date:
November 15, 2022
Location:
Grand Traverse Resort
100 Grand Traverse Village Boulevard
Acme, MI 49610
100 Grand Traverse Village Boulevard
Acme, MI 49610
Time:
Registration begins at 7:30 AM
Training is from 9:00 AM to 3:30 PM
Continental Breakfast will be served.
Lunch will be served.
Cost:
$100.00
Details:
The full day Early On Michigan Pre-Conference sessions offer participants an opportunity to dig deeper into topics such as staff wellbeing, early intervention practice, equity in early intervention, secondary trauma, and parent-child interactions.
Pre-Conference Rates:
By October 7: $100.00; Student/LICC Parent: $50.00
After October 7: $130.00; Student/LICC Parent: $50.00
Applying for Discounted Rates:
Full-time Students who wish to attend and receive the discounted rate must provide documentation on university letterhead indicating their enrollment at the college or university.
Local Interagency Coordinating Council (LICC) parents who wish to attend and receive the discounted rate must provide documentation on ISD/agency letterhead indicating their current involvement as an LICC parent.
Attendees traveling more than 300 miles, one-way, to attend the pre-conference and/or conference are eligible for the discounted rate of half off the pre-conference and/or conference rates.
Please email requests for discounted rates and documentation to Tina Schmidt at cschmidt@ccresa.org or fax it to (517)668-0446.
Accessibility Accommodations
Persons needing accommodations for effective participation in the conference should contact CCRESA OIP at (866) 334-5437 at least two (2) weeks in advance to request mobility, visual, hearing, and other assistance. Individuals may also indicate these needs in their online registration form.
Hotel Update
Grand Traverse Resort is sold out. We have arranged special pricing with two additional hotels.
Sleep Inn
$79.00 single or double. Using their online system to book directly https://www.choicehotels.com/reservations/groups/HD13S2 or call (231)938-7000 and mention the Early On Conference.
Holiday Inn Express & Suites
$116.06. 3536 Mt Hope Rd. Williamsburg, MI 49690 please call (231)938-2600.
Registration Requirements
Please be sure to choose a workshop for every session for each day that you plan to attend the conference. If you do not choose a session, then you will be randomly assigned to a session.
Agenda:
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Tuesday - November 15, 2022
Registration and Continental Breakfast: Tuesday - 7:30am to 8:45am
Pre-conference Sessions: Tuesday - 9:00am to 3:30pm
A - The ABC’s of Early Intervention (This session has reached capacity)
Cari Ebert, MS, CCC-SLP, Cari Ebert Seminars
Working with the birth-to-three population is a rewarding, yet often a challenging experience. Community-based services requires providers to move from a dyadic model of service delivery to a triadic model, which includes parents and caregivers as integral members of the early intervention team. In this seminar we will examine the ABCs of early intervention to empower providers with critical evidence regarding best practice guidelines when working with very young children and their families. Some of the topics we will explore: barriers to success in early intervention, coaching the caregiver, creating functional IFSP outcomes, embedding strategies into naturally occurring routines, and providing services in the childcare setting. If you are an early intervention professional or want to learn more about the framework of service delivery in early intervention, this seminar is for you.
(Intermediate)
Governors' AB
B - Individualized Positive Behavior Support Using PTR-F
Alissa Hofstee, EdS, Kent Intermediate School District
Recent data indicate that expulsions and suspensions regularly occur in early care and educational settings. This is a problematic issue given the well-established research indicating that these practices can influence a number of adverse outcomes across development, health, and education. Further, while many intervention programs are readily available for classroom programming, research-based practices focused on supporting families and caregivers is scarce. Prevent-Teach-Reinforce for Families (PTR-F) is a manualized intervention model that helps families prevent behavior problems in children ages 2–10, teach proactive communication and social skills, and reinforce positive behavior to meet families' unique needs.
(Intermediate)
Mackinac
C - Secondary Traumatic Stress: The Alchemy for Personal Transformation
Jim Henry, PhD, SW Michigan Children’s Trauma Center
This workshop will outline the impact of Secondary Traumatic Stress (STS) to professionals and caregivers. Creating a new paradigm that embraces STS as a pathway to personal transformation through reframing traumatic pain as spiritual opportunity will be the focus of this workshop. Multiple examples will be provided that shift the conversation from managing STS to recognizing and embracing “sacred moments” between professionals and children/families. This workshop will explore what sacred moments are regardless of your particular religious or spiritual practice, identify how sacred moments occur, how to embrace sacred moments, and how sacred moments shift experiences of traumatic pain from the traditional paradigm of surviving secondary traumatic stress to personally thriving because of these intense encounters with pain. Activities will be provided for each participant to reflect on their own sacred moments, the personal impact, and how to continue to create opportunities to experience them.
(Intermediate)
Tower A
D - Promoting Staff Well-Being in Early On
Nancy Surbrook Goins, MA, IMH-E, AnLar LLC
This session will focus on what we know about staff well-being and why it is important to work with families in Early On. Research from Zero to Three, Journal of Early Childhood, Head Start, and other relevant sources will be highlighted as we investigate well-being. We will highlight how individuals can implement well-being practices as well as how staff can support each other in wellness and supervisors can promote the wellness of the staff they supervise and support.
(Introductory)
Tower C
E - Managing Bias to Promote Equity in Early Interventions
Paul Elam, PhD, Michigan Public Health Institute
This session will define the mindsets, skill sets, and toolsets to confront the reality of bias. The interactive experience, relevant examples, and practical tools equip people to surface and address bias in their everyday decisions and interactions. Managers benefit because they can make better choices about how to hire, delegate work, develop and promote talent, and build innovation, empathy, curiosity, and courage across the organization. Individual contributors benefit because they learn how to more fully respect, include, and value colleagues, customers, and other stakeholders through connection and courage. All participants build a robust set of skills around identifying and coping with bias, as well as the skills to be an ally and an advocate as circumstances allow.
(Introductory)
Tower B
F - Parents Interacting with Infants (PIWI): Supporting Infant-Toddler Development Through Parent Child Interactions (This session has reached capacity)
Kristin Tenney-Blackwell, MA, LLP, IMH-E, Pyramid Model Consortium
Research continues to show us how important the first three years of life are to a child’s development and how important families are in this process. This session will share information on PIWI (Parents Interacting with Infants), which focuses on practices for enhancing the development of infants and toddlers by expanding on and strengthening parent-child interactions and relationships. Strategies for supporting parent-child interaction and engagement will be shared.
(Introductory)
Peninsula
