Presented by:  Nancy Goler, MD, Kaiser Regional Medical Director, Northern California

Participants will Learn:

• The basics of the individual with Disabilities Education Inprovement Act (IDEA)
• Eligibility requirements for special education
• About the referral process to special education
• When and how to make an appropriate special education referral
• Strategies to document child progress
• tools, strategies, and resources to use prior to special education referral

Target Audience: Early Childhood Teachers, Family Child Care Providers, 

Description:

Underatanding the Special Ed referral process and more

Target Audience: Early childhood and special education teachers, administrators, parents

$20.00 per session

Register Online at: www.inclusioncollaborative.org

Regular business meeting of the Personnel and Finance Committee

Description:

During this full-day workshop, participants will explore the dynamics of depression throughout the lifespan and how these forces impact family life. This training is geared to family resource center staff, counselors, nurses, social workers, new clinicians, and others who provide services to families.

Learn about depression throughout the life cycle:

Weekly Sessions September 2009 - June 2010

Presented by EMQ Families First, Santa Clara County Social Services Agency and West Valley College

Description:

Presented by EMQ Families First, Santa Clara County Social Services Agency and West Valley College

Description:

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Participants will make practical visual adaptations that can be used in the classroom.

$10.00 per session

Target Audience: Early Childhood and special education teachers, parents, & administrators

Register Online at:  www.inclusioncollaborative.org

In this hands-on workshop, participants will:

• Understand and learn simple sign language for use in classrooms
• Practice whena nd how to use sign language during classroom activities
• Make practical visual adaptations that can be used with all children including:

              - Children with special needs

              - English-language learners

              - Children with speech and language delays

Weekly Sessions September 2009 - June 2010

Presented by EMQ Families First, Santa Clara social Services Agency and West Valley College

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Presented by EMQ Families First, Santa Clara County Social Services Agency and West Valley College

Description:

Regular meeting of the FIRST 5 Commission.

Description:

Ability Awareness activities that can be used in the classroomor for trainings with staff or parents

Target Audience: Teachers, parents and other support staff

$10.00 per session

Register Online at: www.inclusioncollaborative.org

Participants will explore ability awareness through an interactive workshop i

ncluding thought-provoking topics, creative simulation activity, 

& reflective practice.

Presented by EMQ Families First, Santa Clara County Social Services Agency and West Valley College

Description:

Weekly Sessions September 2009 - June 2010

Distinguished Keynote Speakers:
Carolyn Pape Cowan, PhD & Philip Cowan, PhD, Professors
Emeriti, University of California, Berkeley, and
Hector Sanchez-Flores, Senior Research Associate, Center for
Reproductive Health Research & Policy, Institute for Health Policy
Studies, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

Multi-disciplinary CMEs / CEU’s approved

Cost: $50 per person, $25 additional for CMEs / CEUs

A presentation of child development research for ECE practitioners, with a special focus on at-risk children

Description:

In the social service field, when our days are focused on taking care of others, it is all too easy to forget to take care of ourselves. If we want to be really effective in this work, it is especially important as caregivers to make time in our busy lives to practice self care.

Join us for this lively day of discussion and activities designed to help you manage stress and avoid burn out.

Description:

In the social service field, when our days are focused on taking care of others, it is all too easy to forget to take care of ourselves. If we want to be really effective in this work, it is especially important as caregivers to make time in our busy lives to practice self care.

Join us for this lively day of discussion and activities designed to help you manage stress and avoid burn out.

Forging New Partnerships. Working Across Boundaries. Achieving results for Children.

Keynote Speaker: Pulitzer Prize Winner, Jose Antonio Vargas

For Information and Registration, please visit: www.kidsincommon.org/2010childrenssummit

Weekly Sessions September 2009 - June 2010

Description:

Create a Successful Inclusion Team!

Teams must include at least 3 of the following:  Administrators, Parents, Early Childhood Teachers & Early Childhood Spec Ed Teachers from the SAME PROGRAM.

Inclusion Coaches will be assigned to each team (must attend all sessions)

Target Audience: Early childhood education teachers, administrators, parents

Silicon Valley Reads, The San Jose Public Library Foundation and FIRST 5 Santa Clara County present

Yummy for Your Tummy with Chef LaLa & "Carrot Soup" Storytime