Does your job include gathering information from families and using it to help them take steps to make life better for themselves and their children? Then you understand how difficult it can be to colect information respectfully and compassionately while still meeting program deadlines. We can help!
Do you want to:
Understand how adult learning differs from child learning?
Reorganize your practices to include new ways to support family members' perspectives?
Use new tools to help family members think about hopes and concerns?
Ensure individualized services and goal setting are family-controlled processes?
Learn how paradigm shifts relate to working with families?
Practice compassionate exercises you can use with families?
It's all in this Babies Can't Wait eBook!
This book is a "must-read" for home visitors and family workers who want to work with families in the most respectful and nuturing manner. It is especially useful for those who work in Early Head Start, Head Start, and Healthy Families America programs.
Linda Kimura is the founder and owner of Babies Can't Wait. Her many years of experience working with early childhood, child abuse and neglect, and family support programs across the United States and in Canada are now available to you through eBooks. Linda has significant experience working with Native American, Alaska Native, Pacific Islands, and other First Nations groups. She is the author of "Babies Can't Wait: Relationship-based home visiting", "Music: The Great Organizer" (a chapter in "Learning to Read the World: Language and Literacy in the First Three Years"), and "Home Visiting Programs: At-Risk Families with Newborns" (a chapter in "Child Abuse and Neglect: Guidelines for Identiication, Assessment, and Case Management". She is a co-author of the infant/toddler and home visiting sections of the Office of Head Start's early mathematics manual titled "High Five: Mathematize" and of Sonoma State University's "Infant Toddler Online Language and Literacy Course". She is a contributing author to the State of Rhode Island's Early Learning Standards, writing the 18 month standards and contributing to the 9, 12, and 24 month standards.
Do you want to:
Understand how adult learning differs from child learning?
Reorganize your practices to include new ways to support family members' perspectives?
Use new tools to help family members think about hopes and concerns?
Ensure individualized services and goal setting are family-controlled processes?
Learn how paradigm shifts relate to working with families?
Practice compassionate exercises you can use with families?
It's all in this Babies Can't Wait eBook!
This book is a "must-read" for home visitors and family workers who want to work with families in the most respectful and nuturing manner. It is especially useful for those who work in Early Head Start, Head Start, and Healthy Families America programs.
Linda Kimura is the founder and owner of Babies Can't Wait. Her many years of experience working with early childhood, child abuse and neglect, and family support programs across the United States and in Canada are now available to you through eBooks. Linda has significant experience working with Native American, Alaska Native, Pacific Islands, and other First Nations groups. She is the author of "Babies Can't Wait: Relationship-based home visiting", "Music: The Great Organizer" (a chapter in "Learning to Read the World: Language and Literacy in the First Three Years"), and "Home Visiting Programs: At-Risk Families with Newborns" (a chapter in "Child Abuse and Neglect: Guidelines for Identiication, Assessment, and Case Management". She is a co-author of the infant/toddler and home visiting sections of the Office of Head Start's early mathematics manual titled "High Five: Mathematize" and of Sonoma State University's "Infant Toddler Online Language and Literacy Course". She is a contributing author to the State of Rhode Island's Early Learning Standards, writing the 18 month standards and contributing to the 9, 12, and 24 month standards.
