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Unit 3: Supporting Recovery and Protective Factors for Young Children

Unit 3: Supporting Recovery and Protective Factors for Young Children

Goal: Develop the ability to support recovery and protective factors for young children.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Understand the social emotional skills that young children need.
  2. Define five protective factors for children and families.
  3. Define ideas that families/professionals can use to deal with toxic stress and trauma.

This unit contains links to presentations by experts about supporting recovery and protective factors for young children. The links include power point presentations and video presentations. You may choose to view some or all of the presentations.

The length of time for each presentation is noted below. The time needed for this unit is 30 minutes to 2.5 hours. Questions are provided at the end to help you test your knowledge.

Unit 3 Components:

  1. Michigan Department of Community Health
    1. "Social and Emotional Health", scripted power point presentation about social emotional health from birth to 8 years and ideas to support their development, 30 minutes.
  2. Center for Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation
    1. "Recognizing and Supporting the Social and Emotional Health for Young Children Birth to Age Five", online class discussing social/emotional health in young children includes other resources, about 2.5 hours.
    2. "Recognizing and Addressing Trauma in Infants, Young Children, and Their Families", online class about trauma and how to address in Head Start and Early Head Start programs, about 45 minutes.
  3. American Academy of Pediatrics, Ohio Chapter
    1. "Building Bridges, Part 2: Purposeful Parenting and the Primary Prevention of Toxic Stress", a presentation focused on the role of pediatricians in supporting social emotional health, about 60 minutes. Presentation is broken into two PDFs
      Part 1
      Part 2
  4. Center for the Study of Social Policy
    1. "Strengthening Families 101". An Introductory power point presentation to Strengthening Families: A Protective Factors Framework. Approximately 30 minutes, notes included. Click the link above, then find the power point in the top/middle of the page.
  5. Center for Developing Child, Harvard University
    1. "In Brief: Resilience Series"  Three 2-minute video presentations that provide an overview of why resilience matters, how it develops, and how to strengthen it in children.