Great Kids Catalog Summer 2021 Edition

Great Kids®

CURRICULA and PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT CATALOG

Summer 2021 www.greatkidsinc.org

Great Kids® CURRICULA and PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT CATALOG

In this Issue: Growing Great Kids® Next Generation Prenatal – 36 Months .............2 Growing Great Kids® Prenatal – 36 Months Classic........................................9 Growing Great Kids® Preschool.................................12 Resources for Programs Offering Groups for Parents and Children............16 Competency Development..........................18 Online Offerings for Growing Great Kids® Classic Users...........................28 Additional Resources............30

Great Kids® is an international nonprofit organization with a vision for a brighter future. Our aim is to change that future… one childhood at a time. Three decades ago, we started as an organization providing results-driven curriculum, professional development, and consultation specifically for home visiting programs.

Just as the world is changing, our product lines are continually evolving and expanding to support those who partner with families in a variety of capacities. In partnership with you and your program, we’re working to ensure that every child feels safe and secure, loved and valued, capable and curious. To accomplish this, our catalog is growing, and we want to be sure that you have the most up-to-date view of all our current and coming soon offerings.

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Great Kids, Inc. is a nonprofit organization partnering with programs to create and deliver quality products and services that shape a world where all parents and caregivers become competent in their ability to nurture children in their early childhoods today, tomorrow, and for generations to come.

We create early childhood education curricula and training for programs that support families.

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Curricula Series Our Curricula Series includes comprehensive parenting, attachment, relationship-focused, play-based, child development, and family strengthening manuals. The curricula’s primary focus is on fostering the growth of secure attachment relationships and developmentally-enriched, empathic parenting that supports families to reduce their stress and build protective buffers for their children.

Virtual Seminars Mastering competencies to produce successful outcomes for children and families requires training, practice, and ongoing coaching. Great Kids® offers competency development seminars for professionals partnering with families to strengthen family relationships and optimize children’s development and health outcomes. Some Great Kids® virtual certification seminars are offered using a virtual hybrid model approach. These trainings include self-paced independent learning and group e-learning instruction with a certified Great Kids® Trainer.

Online Learning Being a life-long leaner is part of everyone’s journey! Great Kids® strives to provide you with the latest, research-based, specially designed courses that support your professional growth and development.

Our online courses are entirely self-paced, individual professional development opportunities designed to promote your confidence and competence in serving families and their children.

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Curricula and Certification Seminars Growing Great Kids® Next Generation Prenatal – 36 Months Curriculum Set Growing Great Kids® Next Generation is a skill-driven, research-based curriculum for home visitors and their supervisors. The curriculum’s primary focus is on fostering the growth of secure attachment relationships and developmentally enriched, empathic parenting that supports families to reduce their stress and build protective buffers for their children from prenatal to 3 years old.

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Next Generation Prenatal – 36 Months Curriculum Tier I Certification Training N E W

The Next Generation Certification Seminar is an engaging, enriching, and fun learning experience facilitated by a Great Kids® Trainer. The seminar is a blended-learning program consisting of five days of training with 6 hours of instructor-led virtual instruction and approximately 18 hours of independent, online learning to provide you with a comprehensive understanding of the GGK® P-36 Curriculum. It includes an orientation call prior to the scheduled seminar week to support participants with familiarizing themselves with the technology, answering any general questions, and setting expectations for the virtual seminar week.

By the end of this seminar learners will: • Be prepared to use the curriculum with families the following week, • Learn to navigate the materials in order to use them to best meet each family’s needs, • Develop an understanding of the design and function of the Fidelity Guide as well as other unique elements of the curriculum, and • Gain a thorough understanding of the Key Ingredients, including how and why they are foundational and how to use them in every visit.

Next Generation Prenatal - 36 Months Curriculum Transition Training for Home Visitors and Supervisors N E W

This training is provided for home visitors and supervisors who are transitioning from the classic version of our Growing Great Kids® P-36 curriculum to the Next Generation series.

Although re-certification is not required to use the GGK® Next Generation version if you are already certified, it is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED to attend this one-day, complimentary training to support knowledge and skills in using Growing Great Kids® Next Generation.

This 1-day training, facilitated by a Great Kids® Trainer via video conference, is comprised of two 3-hour sessions with an hour break. By the end of this course learners will be able to: • Set realistic expectations for yourself, the families you work with, and staff while transitioning to the Next Generation curriculum, • Be ready to practice using the Next Generation curriculum in home visits, and • Envision your journey to using the GGK® Next Generation version with fidelity.

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Next Generation Prenatal – 36 Months Tier II Certification Training for Home Visitors N E W

The Growing Great Kids® Staff Development program is designed to continue to support home visitors in the learning process as they begin implementation of the curriculum. Completion of this Tier II certification will help anchor the home visitor’s ability to use the full curriculum materials in an intentional and informed manner that will result in optimizing outcomes for children and their families.

By the end of the course learners will be able to: • Promote family engagement, • Describe cultural humility and how to provide culturally responsive services, • Build relationship-based partnerships with families, • Cultivate the growth of secure attachment relationships, • Support family interactions that optimize growth and development, • Nurture resilient families that balance risk and protective factors, • Encourage integrated family wellness, and • Sustain effective professional practices.

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At Great Kids® we believe that learning is transferred to job skills when there is additional support and accountability. This course has been added as a resource for program staff transitioning from GGK® classic to the Next Generation version. There are no requirements to complete this training if you have already completed Tier 2 Premium or an earlier version of Tier 2. This course also has no restrictions on the order in which you complete the modules. Feel free to use this training resource as a reference and learning tool as you gain knowledge and skills in using Next Generation.

Next Generation Prenatal – 36 Months Tier II Certification Training for Supervisors N E W

Great Kids® believes that supervisors play an integral role in a home visitor’s Tier II learning.

As home visitors are encouraged to model the behaviors they want to see families practicing, supervisors are encouraged to model the behaviors they want to see home visitors demonstrating with the families they visit. To BEST support you in your role as a supervisor, we provide you with access to the Growing Great Kids® Next Generation Tier II for Supervisors course. We encourage you to complete the online content alongside your staff or prior to home visitors completing the course. By the end of the course you will be able to support staff to: • Promote family engagement, • Describe cultural humility and how to provide culturally responsive services, • Build relationship-based partnerships with families, • Cultivate the growth of secure attachment relationships, • Support family interactions that optimize growth and development, • Nurture resilient families that balance risk and protective factors, • Encourage integrated family wellness, and

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• Sustain effective professional practices.

Did you know that access to Tier II is included in the purchase of your Growing Great Kids® Next Generation Curriculum Set? Continue to elevate your confidence and competence of home visiting practices with Tier II certification!

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Start your home visiting journey with Growing Great Kids® Next Generation Prenatal - 36 Months.

GGK® Next Generation P - 36 Certification Training Dates 2021 June 7 - 11 June 21 - 25 July 12 - 16

July 26 - 30 August 9 - 13 August 23 - 27

September 13 - 17 September 27- October 1

Certification Training Dates For Programs Transitioning from Classic GGK® June 8 June 10 June 22 June 24

July 13 July 15 July 27 July 29

August 10 August 12 August 24 August 26

Seminars are filling up fast!

Please contact techsupport@greatkidsinc.net for up-to-date availability.

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Growing Great Kids® Classic Curriculum set builds home visitor competencies for promoting parent engagement, building relationship-based partnerships with families, cultivating secure attachment relationships, supporting family interactions that optimize growth and development, nurturing resilient families to help balance risk and protective factors, and sustain professional effectiveness.

A parenting attachment, child development, and family strengthening curriculum.

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Growing Great Kids® Classic Prenatal – 36 Months

The Growing Great Kids® Prenatal to 36 Months Curriculum supports parents to grow the essential parenting and life skills that will empower them to provide their children with a safe, loving home and the inner strengths to reach their highest developmental potential.

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Growing Great Kids® Prenatal-36 Months Classic Tier 1 Certification Seminar for Home Visitors and Supervisors

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Tier 1 Virtual Certification Seminar is an engaging, enriching, and fun learning experience. This blended learning model consists of five days of training with 3 hours of instructor-led virtual instruction each day followed by 2 hours of independent learning time. It includes an orientation call prior to the scheduled seminar week to support participants with familiarizing themselves with the technology, answering any general questions, and setting expectations for the training. By the end of the seminar learners will: • Develop an understanding of the importance of parent-child relationships, • Be prepared to use the curriculum with families the following week, • Learn to navigate the materials in order to use them to best meet each family’s needs, • Become familiar with all Growing Great Kids resources, • Develop an understanding of the design and function of the unique elements of the curriculum, and • Gain a thorough understanding of the Daily Dos and Attachment Boosters, including how and why they are foundational and how to use them in every visit.

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Open Enrollment Dates 2021 (Dates are subject to change)

GGK® P-36 Classic Certification

• June 14-18 • July 19 - 23 • August 16 - 20

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Tier 2 Premium for Home Visitors At Great Kids®, we believe that participation in the Tier 1 Certification Seminar is only one piece of the learning process. The Growing Great Kids® Staff Development program is designed to continue to support staff in the learning process as they begin implementation of the curriculum.

Completing this Tier 2 Certification will help anchor staff’s ability to use the full curriculum materials in an intentional and informed manner that will optimize outcomes for children and their families. By the end of the course learners will be able to: • Promote family engagement, • Describe cultural humility and how to provide culturally responsive services, • Build relationship-based partnerships with families, • Cultivate the growth of secure attachment relationships, • Support family interactions that optimize growth and development, • Nurture resilient families that balance risk and protective factors, • Encourage integrated family wellness, and • Sustain effective professional practices.

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Tier 2 Premium for Supervisors Supervisors benefit from the additional support of this online training opportunity by receiving specific guidance for facilitating their staff’s growth in the Growing Great Kids® Core Competencies. By the end of the course you will be able to support staff to: • Promote family engagement, • Describe cultural humility and how to provide culturally responsive services, • Build relationship-based partnerships with families, • Cultivate the growth of secure attachment relationships, • Support family interactions that optimize growth and development, • Nurture resilient families that balance risk and protective factors, • Encourage integrated family wellness, and • Sustain effective professional practices.

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Growing Great Kids

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Growing Great Kids® for Preschoolers provides home visitors and parents with the knowledge and skills needed to support preschool-aged children in forming: • Secure attachment relationships, • Strong self-esteem,

• Curious minds capable of creative and critical thinking, • Proficient receptive & expressive language/ communication, • Cooperative peer relationships, • Age-appropriate impulse control, • Habits foundational to making healthy life choices, and • Social and academic building blocks for school success.

This set includes the GGK® Preschool Growing Great Families® Curriculum manual. While using this manual, parents learn strategies for building a secure family base and growing protective buffers essential for raising mentally and physically healthy children.

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Play with Me! 3 & Play with Me! 4 Manuals and Handouts The Play with Me! Manuals and Handouts can be purchased with the Preschool Curriculum set or separately, see the Additional Resources Section of this Curricula and Professional Development Catalog.

The full set contains over 400 child development activities, grouped into seven learning domains to support the creation of joyful interactions between three and fouryear-old’s and their families.

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GGK® for Preschoolers Certification Training fo There are two virtual training options offered for Preschool Certification.

1. GGK® Preschool Standard Virtual Seminar for programs NEW to Growing Great Kids®.

This 5-day course introduces home visitors to the foundational concepts of the GGK® Curriculum.

2. GGK® Preschool Advanced Virtual Seminar for programs ALREADY CERTIFIED to use the Growing Great Kids® Curriculum P-36. This 3-day seminar builds upon GGK® P-36 Curriculum concepts to expand and develop skills within the preschool age range.

Participation in a Growing Great Kids® for Preschoolers Certification Seminar is required to use the GGK® for Preschoolers Curriculum.

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GGK® Preschool Certification Standard Virtual Seminar

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• June 14 - 18 • September 20 - 24

Advanced Virtual Seminar

(Individuals must be certificated in P-36 Tier 1)

or Home Visitors and Supervisors By participating in this skill-driven seminar, home visitors and their supervisors will: • Build six home visiting competencies, • Increase their understanding of the development of the preschool-aged child & their parenting needs, • Learn how to motivate parents to practice the GGK® Daily Do’s: 6 Essential Parenting Skill Sets, and • Learn strategies for interacting with 3-5-year-old children aimed at preventing challenging behaviors while providing consistent, nurturing discipline.

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ification Seminar is an engaging, enriching, experience facilitated by a Great Kids® Trainer. ning program consisting of daily live webinars ent learning opportunities to provide you understanding of the GGK® Preschool Curriculum.

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• June 28 -30 • August 30 September 1 15

Products for Parent and Child Groups Growing Great SocializationsTM Curriculum Set

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The Growing Great SocializationsTM Curriculum provides an abundance of well-organized and developmentally sequenced materials to support parenting and child development. By utilizing Growing Great SocializationsTM in conjunction with the home-based curriculum, parents will benefit from a comprehensive and integrated approach. This approach will support the development of parenting skill sets that support the child’s development in all domains, while increasing the parent or caregiver’s nurturing abilities.

Please note it is a prerequisite to be certified in Growing Great Kids® Prenatal to 36 months or Preschool before enrolling in the Growing Great SocializationsTM Certification Seminar.

A parenting group curriculum designed to be used within Growing Great Kids® certified programs.

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Completing this certification course is required to use the Growing Great SocializationsTM Manual with parenting groups. Be sure to work your way through the online learning lessons in the order provided to make sure you cover the content in each unit.

By the end of this course learners will be able to: • Use the Growing Great SocializationsTM Curriculum to expand parental understanding of the development needs of their children, while cultivating parenting skills that build stronger parent-child relationships, • Understand the intent and purpose of the Growing Great SocializationsTM Curriculum structure and format, • Be able to provide parents with opportunities to practice the six parenting skills sets, called the Daily Do’s, during socializations with families.

Together, the Growing Great Kids® and Growing Great SocializationsTM curricula provide developmentally appropriate, research based materials that align with the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework.

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Growing Great Socializations TM Certification Training

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Competency Development Integrated Strategies for Home Visiting

Integrated Strategies for Home Visiting

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Successfully navigating the often unpredictable waters of home visiting requires having the right tools and knowing how to use them. The knowledge and skills acquired in this seminar are essential to achieving strong outcomes in all home visiting models. This skill-driven seminar includes infant mental health, a strength-based approach, and solution-focused communication at its core. It enhances participants’ competencies for building trusting, empathetic relationships with program families that cultivate the growth of secure attachment relationships between caregivers and children. Home visitors will learn to use tools to help them address concerns with highly stressed families while building protective buffers for children by strengthening family foundations and support networks.

By the end of this seminar learners will be able to: • Learn how strong attachment relationships impact a child’s brain development, • Understand how to support families with setting/achieving goals and build protective factors, • Develop skills to support the parent-child relationship through observation and the use of GKI® Action Tools, and • Learn how to maintain a growth mindset while keeping professional boundaries intact and providing culturally responsive services.

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Enhance competencies for building trust and growing empathetic relationships with program families to address stressors and build protective buffers for children.

Integrated Strategies for Supervisors Supervisors have a dedicated time with the Growing Great Kids® Trainer to explore strategies for supporting their staff’s continued professional development of effective home visiting skills.

By the end of this seminar supervisors will be able to: • Increase their skill with the parallel process for staff, • Enhance and practice strength-based beliefs about staff, • Develop understanding about clinical and reflective supervision, • Learn how to use Action Tools with staff, • Support staff with boundaries, • Encourage play, pleasure, and joy in the workplace, and • Build strategies for post training skill building.

This additional training component is included in the Integrated Strategies for Home Visiting seminar fee.

Great Kids® offers competency development seminars for practitioners partnering with families to strengthen their family relationships and optimize the development and health outcomes for their children.

Our job specific certifications focus on building staff skills for implementing effective parenting and early childhood programs at all program levels.

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Parent Survey for Community Outreach Parent Survey for Community Outreach

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Parent Survey is a systematic approach for determining which families in your community will benefit most from home visiting and the other resources available for parents and young children.

This certification seminar provides an orientation to a wide variety of field-tested strategies for building valuable skills necessary for engaging parents in trusting relationships, as well as a thorough review of this easy-to-use, validated tool for helping assess the family’s strengths and their stressors.

Participants of the Parent Survey for Community Outreach training will: • Learn about the continuum of services offered to parents and the community through the Parent Survey Process and understand the rationale for using the Parent Survey, • Recognize the impact of stress and adverse childhood experiences across the lifespan and learn how Protective Factors can build resiliency and buffer against toxic stress, • Gain basic understanding of research findings for impacting quality of life for families and children in communities, • Understand and practice the four phases of the Parent Survey including the introduction, establishing rapport, gathering information, and closure, and • Learn how to use the Rating Scale to score the Parent Survey and refer families to services.

The Parent Survey is an easy-to-use, validated tool for helping you assess a family’s strengths and their stressors.

What is included with the Parent Survey Certification?

• Eight (8) 10-15 Minute E-Learning Units • Eleven (11) Modules with “Conversation Guides” for up to 4 months of family visits • Parent Handouts • Child Development Activities Packets 20

Competency Development

Do you have a systematic approach for determining which of the families in your community will benefit most from home visiting and the other resources available for parents and young children?

This certification seminar provides an orientation to a wide variety of field-tested strategies for building valuable skills necessary for engaging parents in trusting relationships.

Parent Survey for Supervisors Supervisor have a dedicated time with the Growing Great Kids® trainer to explore strength-based skill development, Parent Survey supervisory tools, and ways to motivate and nurture staff.

This additional training component is included in the Parent Survey for Community Outreach Seminar fee.

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REMAP Certification for Supervisors REMAP Certification for Supervisors REMAP Supervision incorporates reflective, clinical, and administrative elements to build home visitor skills while creating a strength-based, results-driven work environment. By the end of this training you will: • Recognize the importance of the parallel process and integrating each REMAP component into supervisory sessions, • Support staff in using the curriculum emergently, • Understand the effects of toxic stress and adverse childhood experiences on children and families and providing protective layers to staff, • Identify opportunities for staff to use a cultural humility approach with the families they serve, • Be able to apply the Guiding Principles for Effective Supervision, including establishing boundaries, empathy, and compassion, • Be familiar with how to use the Action Tools for Supervisors as communication strategies, • Gain an understanding of the Daily Do’s for Supervisors and how to use them during supervision, and • Acknowledge staff’s motivation and core work values to implement skill-building and to develop a trusting relationship.

Mastering competencies to produce successful outcomes requires training, practice, and ongoing coaching.

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Elevate…The Advanced Practice Series This online practice series promotes the confidence and competence of home visitors, coaches, and supervisors already certified in using the Growing Great Kids® curriculum. Certification in GGK® is necessary to enroll in Elevate courses.

A Deep Dive into the GGK® GPS Tool is a new course offering and the first mini-course available in the new series: Elevate...Advanced Practice Series.

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Elevate…The Advanced Practice Series

Deep Dive into The GGK® GPS Tool N E W

In this course, learners will embark on a deep dive into the GGK® GPS Tool! Starting with an exploration of the importance of intentional and parent-involved planning, learners will complete three objectives that walk through the GGK® GPS Tool’s fundamentals. This course’s fourth and final objective challenges learners to elevate their experience even further by applying their knowledge to a practice scenario.

Participant Audience: Any home visitor, supervisor, or coach who is certified in Growing Great Kids® and meet the following: • Completed Next Generation P-36 Tier 1 or • Completed P-36 Classic Tier 1 AND transitioned to the Next Generation version.

By the end of this course learners will be able to: • Understand the significance of intentional and parent-involved planning, • Define the GGK® GPS Tool and describe its components, • Recognize when to use the GGK® GPS Tool, and • How to use the GGK® GPS Tool to support planning and building partnerships with families.

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SOAR…The Effective Home Visitor Series SOAR…StrengthBased, Open-Minded, Attachment-Focused, Relationship-Based This online learning series is a collection of mini-courses designed to give participants foundational knowledge needed to grow their skills as an effective home visitor.

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The Science of Attachment The Science of Attachment is the first course in SOAR...The Effective Home Visitor Series. In this course, participants will explore and reflect on the research behind the science of attachment, the deep emotional bond between an infant and their primary caregiver. Learners will work through three objectives to understand the role of secure attachment relationships in children’s cognitive and social-emotional development. Participants will explore various research-based strategies parents can practice to foster secure attachment relationships with their children.

Participant Audience: Any home visitor or supervisor who supports families with young children. No background knowledge is necessary.

By the end of this course learners will be able to: • Summarize attachment theory and recognize the importance of secure attachment relationships, • Understand how secure attachment relationships influence healthy child development, and • Identify the research-based practices in which a parent/caregiver can foster a secure attachment.

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Thrive…Planting Hope to Grow Resilience

sit the Great Kids Store of Attachment and RISE.

Thrive includes products specifically for programs who support families in recovery. This product line currently includes RISE and will soon include Hope at Home and Together!

RISE – Recovery, Impact, Support, Empower This interactive online course will guide the home visitor’s journey into an enhanced understanding of Substance Use Disorder (SUD). While gaining foundational understanding, participants will learn to use that information to enhance, adapt, and integrate their home visiting skills to support families affected by Substance Use Disorder.

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Thrive…Planting Hope to Grow Resilience

Participant Audience: There are no prerequisites required for you to enroll in this course. It is designed for any home visitor who supports families with young children. No background knowledge is necessary.

By the end of this course learners will be able to: • Identify the role of the home visitor in addressing substance use, • Explain the role of societal norms and personal experiences in dealing with Substance Use Disorders, • Identify the risk and protective factors for developing a Substance Use Disorder, • Understand the effects of parental Substance Use Disorders on parent-child attachment, child development, and parenting, • Recall concrete strategies for integrating the principles of Family-Centered Treatment in your work with families, • Develop a growth mindset and apply empathy to overcome the stigma surrounding substance use, and • Apply a variety of strategies to support families at different stages of recovery.

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Great Kids® Blog Find many informative articles from growing creativity in young children to welcoming a new sibling, as well as general Great Kids® updates.

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A video podcast series dedicated to overcoming bias in others and within ourselves.

Join Great Kids® and guests for a discussion of cognitive bias and how it affects the work of home visitors. Improve your practice by learning more from,

Different Eyes: the View from the Heart of Another.

During this podcast series you will hear discussions on, How do we overcome bias in others? How do we overcome bias in ourselves? This series is dedicated to overcoming bias, learning to see what others see.

A new episode will be released every two weeks for six months.

Parent’s Place Newsletter The Parent’s Place Newsletter is a limited edition, weekly installment newsletter published from March through December 2020 with printable resources for home visitors and the families they serve.

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Great Kids® Video Podcast

During a time when much of our world was shut down and close contact was deemed unsafe, home visitors were still providing services to families. In an effort to help offer support to those home visitors and the families they serve, Great Kids® offered a new resource, the Parent’s Place Newsletter.

Each limited edition, weekly installment focused on a different topic and offered a new printable resource available in English and Spanish. All of those printable documents are available for your reference. Please contact Great Kids® with any questions about the content included.

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Online Offerings for Growing Great Kids® Classic Users Great Kids® Great Start Great Kids® Great Start is a product for newly hired home visitors prior to becoming GGK® Certified. As home visitors interact with the Great Kids® Great Start e-learning units, they build foundational knowledge and skills, resulting in families receiving relationship-based, childfocused, family-driven, and strengths-enhancing visits.

The primary purpose of the Great Kids® Great Start e-learning course is to provide just enough Growing Great Kids® Curriculum-related training and materials for family visits to set the stage for home visitors to have meaningful, relationship-focused, family-driven, and child-centered visits before they participate in a comprehensive GGK® Certification Seminar, required by GGK® Licensing Terms and Conditions.

Great Kids® Great Start is designed to build introductory knowledge and skills in the following areas: • Relationship-focused practice, • Structuring visits with a primary focus on fostering secure parent-child attachments and optimal childhood development, • Using the Accentuating the Positives communication strategy to build feelings of confidence and competence in parents, • Using the Problem Talk strategy when families present a concern, and • Using a GGK® conversation guide during a home visit.

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GGK® Refresh During GGK® Tier 1 certification training, there is so much information covered that it’s sometimes hard to process it all and store it in long memory. This series of short video units are designed to serve as a reminder about several of the important concepts that are part of the design of Growing Great Kids® and Growing Great Families® curricula. By viewing these units, participants will REFRESH their knowledge base and be motivated to rejuvenate their home visiting competencies and skills. For this type of professional development, the best practice recommendation is that supervisors use these videos with teams and lead small groups discussions around each video’s content.

Great FIT The Great FIT (Fidelity Implementation Training) resources are designed for supervisors who have completed their Growing Great Kids® Supervisor Certification. Fidelity implementation of the GGK®/GGF® curricula is critical to child and family outcomes. This course includes a downloadable Implementation Planning Guide and five videos designed to guide you through developing your own GGK® Implementation Plan. Access to this resource is included in the cost of supervisor certification.

Home Visitor Observation for Supervisors This course is designed to guide supervisors who have been tasked with Home Visitor Observation. The 35-minute video will walk you through everything you will need to know to complete the Tier 1 Certification process for your staff. You can also download the Home Visit Observation Form.

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Additional Resources These products can be purchased in addition to their curriculum sets.

Growing Great Kids® Next Generation Key Ingredients Ring Key Ingredients Ring N E W

Home visitors are cheering for the Next Generation Key Ingredients Ring, a laminated ring of All the Daily Do’s and Attachment Boosters. Programs have even asked us to make it available for purchase to support families’ growth and experience during their home visits. Purchase for the families in your program today!

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Play with Me! 3 and Play with Me! 4 Play with Me! 3 and Play with Me! 4

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Additional copies of the Play with Me! Activities set can be purchased along with your Growing Great Kids® for Preschoolers Curriculum set.

Preschoolers will over 100 activities in each manual to enhance parent-child relationships while supporting child development across all learning domains.

Pre-Made Growing Great Kids® Parent Handbooks for Classic and Next Generation P-36 Pre-Made Growing Great Kids® Parent Handbooks for Classic and Next Generation P-36

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Support families’ home visiting experiences by purchasing pre-made Growing Great Kids® and Growing Great Families® Parent Handbooks. Store the parent handouts from Growing Great Kids® and Growing Great Families® separately with two pre-made parent handbooks.

Parent handbooks encourage family ownership and partnership in their home visiting experience!

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COMING SOON! Great Kids® is excited to offer you a sneak peek at products that will be available in the near future!

A NEW SOAR...Effective Home Visitor course will be added to the series!

A Strengths-Based Approach In this course learners will develop their understanding of a Strengths-Based Approach. Starting with a close look at what being strengths-based really means, participants will complete three objectives that walk through the fundamentals of taking a Strengths-Based Approach. By the end of this training learners should feel confident in their ability to use a Strengths-Based Approach not only in professional practice, but in ALL their relationships.

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A NEW Elevate...Advance Practice course will be added to the series!

Exploring the Great Kids® Assessment Tools This course will provide a guided exploration of the Great Kids® Assessment Tools: 1. The GGK® Fidelity Self-Assessment Checklist, 2. Fidelity Observation Tool for Supervisors and Coaches, 3. GKI® Core Competencies for Effective Home Visiting Self-Assessment, and 4. The Individual Professional Development Plan.

Throughout the three modules, learners will explore a detailed breakdown of each assessment tool and how to complete the tools with fidelity. Participants will also learn about the importance and benefits of reflection and collaboration in their professional development journey. The course will conclude with an opportunity for both home visitors and supervisors to begin developing a goal plan for putting the Great Kids® Assessment Tools into practice.

What are the next steps you will take to ensure that every child feels safe and secure, loved and valued, curious and capable?

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Alignment with Head Start

The Growing Great Kids® Curriculum aligns with and builds upon the HFA model approach

The Growing Great Kids® Home-Based Curricula Series exceeds all Head Start Curriculum requirements

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