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LEARN with ZERO TO THREE is the leader in continuous learning and professional development opportunities for early childhood professionals.
From online training programs to immersive, in-person learning experiences like our annual early childhood conference, our wide range of early childhood professional development offerings are developed by instructors with real-world experience in the early childhood field. We can even customize training for your entire team!
We’ve been there. We know what challenges lie ahead. And we can give you the guidance you need to crush your career goals.
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Whether you’re looking for infant mental health training, to better understand early brain development, or to improve your effectiveness as a coach, our trauma-informed, evidence-based training programs will help you meet your career goals.
LEARN Conference
Uniting the most inventive minds in the early childhood field.
In a world brimming with pressing social challenges, the ZERO TO THREE LEARN Conference brings together forward-thinking early childhood professionals for 2-days where we will challenge our thinking and become the driving force behind lasting change.
Level Up Your Team
Need group training? We can help.
Experience the power of quality practice together – with group training courses designed to challenge, inspire and support your team to implement your learning. Tell us your needs and we’ll start on a custom plan to help you meet your goals.
Training Schedule
In Person
Higher Education Faculty Institute
If you're helping prepare the next generation of early childhood professionals, we’d love to have you join us in person this fall!
Price: $450
The Higher Education Faculty Institute is a two-day, in-person learning experience happening October 6 and 7 at the Baltimore Convention Center.
You’ll spend time in community with fellow faculty, engage directly with ZERO TO THREE facilitators and leave with permission to use exclusive content in your courses, curricula and program design.
Virtual
The Growing Brain Basics: Webinar Series
Discover how to build better brains from the bottom up.
Price: $99 | Member Price: $74
In this four-part webinar series, you’ll uncover essential strategies and meaningful next steps to creating quality interactions with infants and toddlers so that you can become the brain builder you were born to be.
- Brain Basics: how the brain grows and develops from conception to 5 years old and how to support healthy brain development
- Cognitive Development: language and executive function and how these skills are heavily intertwined
- Social-Emotional Development and Understanding Behavior: how relationships and attachment affect development and behavior
- Everyday Play: how play builds children’s capacities in all areas of development
What attendees are saying about The Growing Brain Basics:
"This series was informative, and I gained helpful new knowledge that I can use for my profession and to educate other early childhood educators and families. "
- Elizabeth M.
"The technical information was presented in a way that was easy for me to understand, despite not working in this field."
- Rachel L.
Virtual & In Person
DC:0—5™: Clinical Training
Dive into the latest scientific findings and clinical research in infant and early childhood mental health.
Price: $549 | Member Price: $524
Deepen your understanding of the DC:0–5™ Diagnostic Classification of Mental Health and Developmental Disorders of Infancy and Early Childhood with a comprehensive review of the indispensable guide, straight from the source.
Join a cohort of clinicians, pediatricians, early interventionists, nurse practitioners and other professionals to:
- Analyze the importance of using a developmentally sensitive, relationship-based and contextually grounded and empirically supported system of diagnostic classification with children from birth through 5 years old through real-world scenarios and case examples
- Uplevel your ability to approach diagnosis from an Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health perspective
- Closely examine the significance of a multiaxial approach for children with mental health and developmental disorders in infancy and early childhood
What attendees are saying about the DC:0-5 Clinical Training:
"The session was engaging, even in a virtual format. The combination of lectures, small and large group discussions, compelling vignettes, reflection, and Q&A was well-structured and thoughtfully paced."
- Kyong-Ah L.
"So thorough in your explanations of the material and I appreciated the chance to dissect and apply the information to case studies."
- Kari K.
Virtual
Infant Mental Health: What You Need to Know
This single-session infant mental health training helps administrators and allied professionals gain a foundation for understanding this diagnostic system.
Price:$99 | Member Price: $74
This overview of DC:0–5™ Diagnostic Classification of Mental Health and Developmental Disorders of Infancy and Early Childhood can help gain a foundation of understanding this diagnostic system.
Key Takeaways:
- Discover the origins of ZERO TO THREE’s groundbreaking work in early childhood mental health.
- Learn how to define and apply key concepts in infant and early childhood mental health.
- Understand the importance of using the DC:0-5™ for diagnosing and supporting young children.
- Get to know the five Axes of the DC:0-5™ and how they guide comprehensive assessments.
What attendees are saying about this Infant Mental Health overview:
"Understanding the deeper reasons behind why children behave the way they do has been truly eye-opening. This insight has transformed the way I support and connect with them."
- Davina M.
"The explanation of the factors concerning the psychosocial stressors was extremely useful to in my work."
- Michelle S.
Virtual
The Growing Brain: Training-of-Trainers
Nurture better brain development, one experience at a time.
Price: $549 | Member Price: $524
This innovative early childhood professional development program provides trainers with practical strategies to support early childhood professionals in creating environments and interactions that foster positive brain development.
Participants will learn skills and strategies for:
- Teaching early childhood professionals about brain development (architecture and neurobiology) to inform their practice
- Supporting language, cognition, prosocial behavior and social-emotional development
- Reducing toxic stress that can negatively influence the brain development of very young children
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Log in with your ZERO TO THREE Membership Account to unlock instant savings on all our early childhood professional development offerings.
Manage your learning history, download certifications and badges, and access over 100 hours of high-quality recordings on the topics you want for the professional development and CEUs you need, available anytime in a self-paced mobile-friendly online format. And remember—as a ZERO TO THREE Member, you can access our free monthly virtual events, too.
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ZERO TO THREE Critical Competencies for Infant-Toddler Educators™
The ZERO TO THREE Critical Competencies for Infant-Toddler Educators™ suite of professional development products and services helps educators build the essential knowledge and skills they need, in flexible and user-friendly formats.
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Earn CEUs from ZERO TO THREE
ZERO TO THREE is pleased to offer free Continuing Education Units for a variety of learning events and early childhood professional development.
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The Growing Brain: From Birth to 5 Years Old, A Training Curriculum for Early Childhood Professionals
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