Infants and toddlers experience a range of fears in early childhood that are expected and part of

their development. Fears can be triggered by a range of stimuli, such as, novel environments,

loud noises, strangers, separation from caregivers, or even fears of going down the tub drain.

This presentation will focus on using an attachment-oriented lens to explore how caregivers are

key for co-regulation and security. Prevention strategies will be explored that involve providing

routine and comfort while helping to scaffold approach behaviors and model effective coping

that can support security and sense of capability. Participants will gain an understanding of how

caregiving practices and play can be used to prevent fear and anxiety from inhibiting growth and

create opportunities for developing capability and resilience. This presentation is appropriate for

those working to support young children and families or for caregivers themselves.

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Partnering With Parents to Solve Everyday Childrearing Challenges

Presented by Claire Lerner LCSW-C

Wednesday, January 22nd 2025

6:00-7:30 PM

Online Via Zoom

 In this presentation, Claire will use cases from her practice to illustrate her approach to collaborating with parents to solve their most vexing childrearing challenges, a process that includes: 

• Doing the detective work to figure out the root cause of the challenging behavior, which often includes parents sharing audio and video of difficult moments with their children.

• Helping parents make some key mindshifts that enable them to be more responsive, not reactive.

• Coming up with strategies that put parents back in charge and provide their children the love and connection they need while also setting clear limits and boundaries with love.  

Ample time will be allotted to address questions and explore cases from participants.

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Clinical Work with Young Children in Foster Care Workshop

Tuesday, December 3rd 2024

1:00-2:00 PM

Via Zoom

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Presented by Susan Chinitz Psy.D.

This presentation will offer guidance to practitioners on providing clinical and therapeutic support to young children who are in foster care. It will review the life experiences of children who enter foster care as infants or toddlers, often including attachment disorders or attachment disruptions, sometimes augmented by other losses and traumatic experiences. It will also review common characteristics of parents of young children who are involved in the child welfare system. The workshop will describe the various members and roles of children’s court teams, as well as characteristics of the child welfare system that provide the context for this complex clinical work. It will describe common emotional and behavioral presentations and diagnostic issues, and will offer information on evidence-based interventions for young children in foster care. The workshop will also provide other resources and strategies that clinicians can use in their therapeutic work with young children, including specialized picture books for young children, guidelines for parent-child visits, and relationship building between parents and children’s alternate caregivers.

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A Virtual workshop presented by Tamaé Memole.

As knowledge and understanding around the Adverse Childhood Experience Study grows, so does the need for tangible action steps to build resilience. To do this, we all must recognize that we have the opportunity and shared responsibility to build resilience of children and families. This 90-minute training begins with a brief review of the ACE Study, discusses the importance of intentional resilience strengthening and engages participants in perspective shift work to equip them with every day action steps that are grounded in the Protective Factors Framework.

Learning Objective #1:  Participants will understand what resilience is, what it looks like and why it's important.

Learning Objective #2:  Engage in perspective-shift that results in a strength-based approach to working with families.

Learning Objective #3:  Participants will leave with concrete tools for how they build resilience in children and families.

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Reconnect and Renew your Support of Professionals Who work on Behalf of Infants, Toddlers, and their Families.

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Presented by: Dr. Frederica P. Perera

Breakfast for Babies is a collaborative project of NYS-AIMH and NYZTT. Open to all who work with or on behalf of very young children and their families – those who work in childcare and early learning; home visiting; Early Intervention; psychotherapy; child welfare; healthcare; policy and research, and more! 

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Presented by: Carmen Rosa Norona, Ivys Fernandez-Pastrana and Elizabeth RaskinCenter of Excellence in Immigrant Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health. Division of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, Boston Medical Center

The ripple effect of immigration policy enforcement on young children in immigrant families is an urgent topic for infant and early childhood providers (pediatricians, mental health clinicians, early childhood educators, home visitors, and other frontline workers). This presentation will explore:

• providers’ values, beliefs, and perceptions regarding working with immigrant families and on how these shape practice

• the historical, socio-economic-political context forcing families to leave their home countries, the implications of pre, during, and post-immigration traumatic stressors, and the traumatic nature of threats of separation or forcible separation on the development and well-being of very young children

• the “Family Preparedness Plan,” a developmentally, trauma and diversity-informed tool to support and empower immigrant families in addressing fears of separation-related to immigration policy

• the impacts of the work in providers (vicarious traumatization, secondary traumatic stress, burnout, etc.) and strategies to address these effects.

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Presented by: Ross W. Greene, Ph.D., originator of the innovative, evidence-based approach called Collaborative & Proactive Solutions (CPS)

Dr. Ross W. Greene will describe the innovative, evidence-based, trauma-informed model he writes about in his influential books The Explosive Child, Lost at School, Lost & Found, and Raising Using Beings...especially as applied to infants and very young kids. The CPS model has transformed thinking and practices in countless families, schools, inpatient psychiatry units, and residential and juvenile detention facilities throughout the world. The model focuses on solving problems rather than on modifying behavior, emphasizes collaborative rather than unilateral solutions, encourages proactive rather than reactive intervention, de-emphasizes diagnostic categories, and provides practical, research-based tools for assessment and intervention. Participants in this 90-minute presentation will leave with an understanding of the underpinnings of the model and its application to infants and very young children.

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Each year, the New York Zero to Three Network, in memory of a founding Board Member, Hedi Levenback, honors an innovator in the field of infancy and early childhood. This year we are honoring Dr. Serena Wieder.

Dr. Wieder will be interviewed by host Gil Foley, Ed.D. as they discuss her contributions to the field of early childhood.

A Hybrid Special Event

For more details and to register on Eventbrite here.

Cosponsorship webinar with New York State Parenting Education Partnership (NYSPEP) New York Zero-to-Three Network (NYZTT)

Part 2 Growing and Learning Together: Supporting Healthy Parent and Child Development from 12 month-3 years

Presenter: Christina M. Fiorvanti, PhD, Psychologist

Cosponsorship webinar with New York State Parenting Education Partnership (NYSPEP) New York Zero-to-Three Network (NYZTT)

Part 1 Early Windows of Opportunity: Supporting Healthy Parent and Infant Development from Prenatal to 12-months

Presenters: Dawn Bruce, NYSPEP Senior Credentialed Parenting Educator, and Meg Akabas, NYSPEP Credentialed Parenting Educator

Register for the webinars HERE

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Join us in a night of laughter and help support NYZTT.

Hosted by Kendra Cunningham (DryBar Comedy, Last Comic Standing & friends).

Featuring: Alyce Chan (MomComedy)

Ivy Eisenberg (The Moth)

Negin Farsad (NPR)