FREE After School for Parents and Professionals - Small Group Sessions or Consultations

Circle of Security interventions are trauma-sensitive and can play an integral part in helping your Head Start and Early Head Start center create trauma-informed care for young children, families, and Head Start workforce.

Head Start and Early Head Start programs may be interested in using Circle of Security approaches to promote resiliency for children, families, and staff within a trauma-informed care model in some of the following ways:

• To support children and families experiencing trauma by strengthening parent-child relationships as a parenting      curriculum, and building resilience for young children as a mental health      intervention
• To strengthen student-teacher relationships as a      professional development model
• As a practice-based coaching model to increase safe,      nurturing, and committed relationships in learning environments
• With reflective consultation to staff to reduce      secondary traumatic stress
• To foster collegial support among teachers, staff, and      administration to reduce burnout and turnover.
• To strengthen collaboration between families and      teachers with a shared understanding of young children's relational needs.

Please note that these sessions are opened to parents and professionals in Alachua County only. Our practitioners will contact you to ensure that you meet the eligibility criteria:

• Have participated in the 5-Week Summer School      Initiative for Parents and Professionals
• You are a childcare center serving children ages (0 -      5) years old
• You are a parent, caregiver of a child (ren) ages      (0-5) years old

This program is sponsored by the Children's Trust of Alachua County.