Putting on a New Pair of Lenses

For more information, contact Dr. Nancy C Osborn at [email protected]

Training Program for Staff

The program starts with Putting on a New Pair of Lenses, followed by Deep Dive sessions for a total of 15 hours of training. ​Following the 15 hours of training, the early childhood center is given the option to continue with Advanced Training. 

Staff Trainings

Putting on a New Pair of Lenses:  Trauma Informed Care for Early Childhood Educators (15 hours)
This is an overview of trauma informed care and includes topics such as:

•  Healthy social-emotional development for infants and toddlers
• Attachment
• Definition of trauma and discussion of the impact of trauma on the brain, body and our lives in general
• Explanation of ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences)
• Trauma Sensitive Principles
• The importance of the early child educator in helping children heal from trauma
• Ways to help children regulate their emotions and behaviors
•  Importance of self-care

Putting on a New Pair of Lenses:  Trauma Informed Care for Early Childhood Educators
We know it can be hard for early childhood educators to carve out 6 hours in one day for a training, so we've broken up the training module into three two-hour sections.

Part 1 

• Healthy social-emotional development for infants and toddlers
• Attachment
• The importance of the early childhood educator in helping children with social-emotional development
• Definition of trauma and examples​

Part 2 

• Impact of trauma on social-emotional development of infants/toddlers.
• Toxic stress
• Hand model of the brain
• Impact of neglect
• Current behavior are adaptations
• ACEs and their possible impact
• Neuroplasticity​

Part 3

• Trauma awareness principles
• How a child’s resilience can be increased
• Emotional-social regulation strategies
• Self-care for early childhood educators—mental, physical, social, spiritual​

Deep Dive Trainings
The above 6-hour training is a required before scheduling deep dive trainings.

Putting on a New Pair of Lenses: Deep Dive Into the Impact of Trauma (3 hours)

• Factors that impact how people are affected by trauma
• Children’s reactions to traumatic situations
• Impact of trauma on the brain and body
• Impact of trauma on our mental state
• Impact of trauma on our social life—both intrapersonal and interpersonal
• Impact of trauma on our spirituality
• Impact of trauma on a child’s family

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Putting on a New Pair of Lenses:  Deep Dive into Self-Care (3 hours)

• Secondary trauma, compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, burnout
• Empathy and mirror neurons
• Professional Quality of Life Scale
• Self-care in the context of physically, mentally, socially and spiritually
• Mindfulness​

Putting on a New Pair of Lenses:  Early Childhood Educators’ Questions Answered (3 hours)

• Infant and early childhood mental health
• Attachment concerns
• Challenging behavior
• Specific diagnoses given to infants/toddlers (DC:0-5)
• Sensory issues
• Agency
• Reflective functioning
• Really seeing each child​