Expired *NEW TRAINING* GKI Growing Great Connections – Pilot Program

Alberta Home Visitation Network Association

Presents

Growing Great Connections

By

Growing Great Kids Inc.

Growing Great Connections is a Great Kids comprehensive training program designed to grow foundational skills for home visitors and other frontline family practitioners. This training program includes FIVE training components that support professionals to work with families in:

• Developing relationships through a relational communication framework,
• Understanding the science of attachment,
• Building a strengths-based and trauma-informed approach, and
• Observing parent-child interactions to facilitate secure attachment relationships.

By the end of the training program, participants should:

1. Understand the importance of relational communication in interactions and know how to use the tools provided in the course to communicate effectively with families to build relationship-based partnerships.
2. Understand attachment theory, identify components of a secure attachment relationship, and learn how to foster secure attachments in visits.
3. Develop an understanding of a strengths-based approach, what it looks like in practice, and how the use of language can reflect this approach.
4. Expand knowledge of trauma and its impacts, understand a trauma-informed approach, and learn about resilience and ways to support its growth.
5. Be able to describe the importance and benefits of facilitating parent-child interactions and use the observational tool, CHEEERS, to promote, support, and document parent-child interactions.

This seminar is a blended learning program offering live instruction via webinar as well as independent study to reinforce foundational topics for growing effective home visiting practices.  The course is divided into 5 parts:

• ENGAGE – 4 mornings live virtual instruction and 3 – 2 hour self directed learning
• Soar Series (can be completed independently or as part of a Work Bee):
  • A Strengths-Based Approach – 2 hours self directed
  • Growing Resilience Through a Trauma-Informed Approach – 2 hours self directed
  • The Science of Attachment – 2 hours self directed
  • CHEEERS: A Tool for Observing Parent-Child Interaction – 2 hours self directed

There will be a mandatory 30 minute orientation that is required prior to beginning the live Engage portion of the seminar.

Please plan the entire week for this training to allow for various learning styles in the online learning portion of the course.

Virtual Dates and Times:

Register by March 1st, 2024

Monday March 18 – Friday March 22, 2024 9:00 am – 3:30 pm (approximately)

• See details below

A. Orientation- TBD (prior to March 18th, 2024)

B. Live Engage Sessions- Monday, March 18-Thursday March 21, 2024

• 9:00 am – 12:00 pm – Live Virtual Engage Sessions –
• 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm (approximately) – self directed learning

C. Soar Modules- Thursday March 21 (PM) & Friday March 22 (All Day)

• Completion of 4 self directed “Soar” Modules
• Bonus! Soar Work Bee
  • you will be invited to an optional online worker bee to work through the self directed modules together
  • Soar Work Bee is optional, the Soar Modules are required

You must complete all of the above components (A, B, & C) to receive a certificate from GKI!

• • Participants must have a camera on and mic available throughout the entire live virtual session Virtual, interactive training for 3 hours each day

Fees:

*This training is free for provincially funded Home Visitation and Early Childhood Spokes within Family Resource Networks (FRNs)

Family Resource Network Home Visitation Spoke: $0.00

Family Resource Network Spoke (0-6 years old): $0.00

Family Resource Network Spoke (7-12 years old): $0.00

Family Resource Network Spokes (13-18 years old): $0.00

Participants in this Pilot session will be asked to provide extra feedback and evaluation data!

Training Materials*

GKI will send out an email to all registrants with information regarding Orientation Pre-Training Preparations to complete before the first live webinar. You will be prompted to print an Engage Workbook and Action Tools Booklet. AHVNA will be printing these resources in colour and will mail them to participants before the start of the live sessions.

Registration Information:

Two Part Registration

• Register online at www.ahvna.org
• Each registrant must have a unique email address. Any email address that has already been used by another employee/staff (for GKI Integrated Strategies, GKI Parent Survey, OR GKI Growing Great Connections) cannot be re-used. Please contact training@ahvna.org if you have questions.  

• Registrants will be emailed a link to complete registration on the Great Kids Inc. Academy.
  • GKI Online Registration Form must be completed by each participant prior to the registration closure date
  • Names of attendees cannot be changed or training cancelled once this step is complete
  • Supervisor cannot register staff on staff member’s behalf.
  • Date the supervisor attended the GKI-Integrated Strategies training must be provided to the staff registering to take the workshop.

Cancellation Policy (note changes):

Cancellations or substitutions need to be made approximately 2 weeks to the workshop date, and prior to registration in the GKI portal. We are unable to make changes once an individual is registered in the Great Kids Inc Academy.

A NO SHOW charge (of up to $600.00 US) may be applied to cancellations less than 2 weeks prior to the training and for no shows.

If a workshop does not reach its minimum registration requirement, it will be cancelled prior to the workshop commencement date. Registrants will be informed by email or telephone.

Virtual Training Expectations:

• As this is a virtual training, not a webinar, each participant must have access to a camera, microphone and internet
• Requirements to receive a certificate:
  • Attend the entire training, with camera on (infrequent breaks from the camera are permitted)
  • Participate in break out rooms and activities
• Please contact AHVNA prior to registration if this is an issue and we can help problem solve.

We want you to get as much out of the virtual training as you would an in-person training!