Select a Key Topic Brain DevelopmentChild Abuse & Neglect Child Care Child DevelopmentDisaster Relief and TraumaEarly Care & EducationEarly Childhood Mental HealthDC: 0-3REarly Language & LiteracyFamily, Friend and Neighbor CareHealth & NutritionMilitary FamiliesPlayReflective Practice & Program Mgmt.Screening, Assessment & DiagnosisSleepSocial Emotional DevelopmentSystems BuildingTemperament & BehaviorZero to Three Journal

Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect: Parent-Provider Partnerships in Child Care
Cradling Literacy: Building Teachers’ Skills to Nurture Early Language and Literacy Birth to Five

We offer hands-on and engaging sessions for trainers and practitioners working in:

• Child Care
• Child Welfare
• Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health
• Early Intervention

 The Center for Training Services:

Research and practice-based training for trainers, program leaders, and practitioners
Critical topics for those serving very young children and their families
Training approaches that inspire, instruct, and improve practice

Who we've reached:

• In 2007, we reached over 2,000 infant and early childhood professionals
• Worked in over 20 states throughout the U.S.
• Received training scores of at least 4.5 on a scale from 1-5 from our participants
• 90% of participants report increased knowledge of core concepts. 

On-site Training

Bring the Center for Training Services training to your state or organization. Our lively, interactive training for trainers, program leaders and practitioners builds skill, enhances knowledge and strengthens practice.  Our training strengthens your local capacity by increasing trainers’ and program leaders’ ability to support staff, and by building professionals’ capacity to respond to very young children and their families.

Examples of our on-site training:

Within the past year, trainers in the states of Hawaii, North Carolina, Kansas and Arizona have taken part in our Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect: Parent-Provider Partnerships in Child Care training.  Trainers in Pennsylvania learned to teach others how to work effectively with parents, using our Building Effective Partnerships with Parents curriculum. 

Early childhood professionals in Utah, California, and Kentucky learned relationship-building skills vital to effective mentoring and consulting in our Consulting and Mentoring in Early Childhood Programs  workshop. 

Our frequently requested DC:0-3R training prepares mental health clinicians to diagnose the mental health and developmental difficulties of infancy and early childhood. 

Clinicians in California, Connecticut, Florida, Kansas, Ohio, Oregon, Nevada, Maryland, Michigan, Pennsylvania and participated in training  in the use of this diagnostic manual. WIC program directors in Virginia, Michigan Even Start program staff and Maryland Friends of the Family program staff participated in Cradling Literacy training.

Program supervisors in Colorado and Alberta, Canada learned to help their staff to look, listen and learn from their work in workshops on Reflective Supervision.  

This is just a sample of our recent work, which in 2007 reached over 2000 professionals who work with very young children and their families. Click here for additional information about our training.

What will it cost?

Costs vary depending upon training length, cost of materials and travel expenses.  Costs for a full day workshop requiring one trainer and no materials are typically $2,400, plus travel expenses.

Contact Us: nseibel@zerotothree.org

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