Tools for Hope
Equipping and Elevating Detroit's Early Childhood Professionals
Tools for Hope is a virtual professional development series, led by Detroit-based organizations with deep experience serving children and families.
The 10 session series offered pertinent topics to help ECE professionals support children and families through trauma, pivot to virtual learning strategies, maintaining health and safety protocols when reopening, kindergarten readiness and more.
Session recordings are available to watch below.
In our final installment of the Tools for Hope series, we heard from two Detroit childcare providers who have safely navigated their way through the pandemic. Plus, a brief presentation focused on safety tips and best practices.
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- Covid-19 protocols for infection control and hygiene practices
- Implications on the social and emotional development of children due to new infection control and hygiene practices.
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• Developmentally appropriate practices and learning trajectories
• Explore different platforms and strategies to increase active engagement
• Evidence based methods to support culturally and linguistically diverse children
- Wading through the “new” in the fall of 2020-strategies to support transitions with new regulations
- Examine ways to increase enrollment
Tools for Hope: Family Engagement from Detroit Public TV on Vimeo.
• How to engage parents and families in the kindergarten enrollment conversation
• Communication systems to support and partner with families experiencing adversity and stress
Resources Shared During the Workshop:
Build Up Michigan – https://buildupmi.org/
Thrive from Home Resources – https://buildupmi.org/thrive
State of Michigan SmartMobile Education Technology Program – https://ww3.stratixcorp.com/michigan-set-order email concerns about the program to: erik.anderson@stratixcorp.com.
NCPMI resources – https://challengingbehavior.cbcs.usf.edu/
DPTV Education Resources – http://dptv.org/education
PBS Learning Media – https://dptv.pbslearningmedia.org/
Safe YouTube – https://safeyoutube.net/
Tara’s FB Page – https://www.facebook.com/TaraDetroitPublicTV56
- Strategies and resources to improve mental health in the midst of a multitude of traumatic events for staff, families and children
- How to create a trauma informed classroom centered in equity for young children
- Methods to respond to challenging behaviors that are rooted in trauma
Now more than ever, it’s critical that we provide children, families and early childhood providers with resources to support mental and physical health and well-being. This interactive learning session will introduce strategies to help children develop healthy habits and connect providers and families to resources that are culturally relevant and accessible to support their efforts.
Session Objectives:
- Share strategies to support healthy living when food is scarce
- Examine food resources that provide balanced supplies
- Explore racial identity development with children
- Strategic planning
- Economic impact of COVID on families and the impact on reopening
- Financial Survival; best practices and resources
• Examine new policies that directly impact early learning centers, including staff and families post Covid-19
• How to strengthen relationships with elected officials
• What is advocacy and how does it affect policy
• Leveraging parent and community voice to champion policy change
Yes! I work in a school and I can’t agree with this more!
This should be framed and given to everyone at the hospital when they leave with their new baby.
Hey Detroit Families,
Check this one out!Please join us for the Finally to National Reading Month with our Black Book Week Event that was rescheduled due to weather. You don’t want to miss this amazing line up of Black Authors, Dinner will be served and it will be fun for the entire family. Please join us at DPN this Friday March 31st for the celebration.
New St. Paul Head Start Agency in Detroit had 2 very special visitors today! Governor Whitmer and Ryan the Lion joined the students and staff of the school for story time and a reading of The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Following the entertaining reading from the Governor (including encouragement to eat fruits and veggies!), the teachers shared some of the impressive work that the students were doing in the classroom. From reimagining the big bad wolf as a nice wolf, to teaching sign language to a group school sing, it is very clear that the team at New St. Paul Head Start Agency is doing amazing work as early childhood educators. As we round out March and the celebration of Reading Month the Governor encouraged the children to continue reading not just this month but every month – we could not agree more!
I had a chance to sit with Governor Whitmer following to discuss the critical role that professionals caring for infant, toddlers and preschool play. It was inspiring to be at New St. Paul Head Start Agency and we celebrate these professionals today and every day! And you can celebrate Infant, Toddler and Preschool Professionals in your life too! Visit this link to learn more:
www.dptv.org/earlychildhood
Lots happening in the month of April! Will you be joining us and MiAEYC/NAEYC and other strong Early Childhood Supporters to kick of the month with the Week of the Young Child? Michigan AEYC
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It's almost APRIL! Do you know what April is?!?! The month, week, day of the Young Child! How will you celebrate? Have you celebrated the Infant, Toddler and Preschool Professionals in your lives yet?? Go here to enter them into a raffle with $10,000 worth of prizes! Michigan AEYC
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