Overview
Please note: Registration will close at capacity which is 100 people.
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Walking distance to the Conference Center
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Back to Basics: Safety First
| Description | Presenter |
| Due to ongoing events from the pandemic, program leaders and staff are experiencing changes that have significantly impacted our ability to maintain a culture of safety. The increase in child incidents related to children being left unattended or child maltreatment is evidence that we need to intensify our efforts to vigorously implement strategies that ensure children are safe at all times while under our care. This requires intentional, focused, and constant supervision. In this session, participants will identify strategies that make the connections between leadership, staff supervision, strong management systems, high-quality teaching and learning, family engagement, staff wellness, and child safety. | Region 3 TTA Team
Led by Rashanda Jenkins, Health Specialist |
It Takes a Village…Supporting Children’s Social and Emotional Well-being
| Description | Presenter |
| “It takes a village to raise a child” is an African proverb that means an entire community of people must interact with children for those children to grow in a safe and healthy environment. The Region 3 TTA Network would like to be a part of your village to support children’s social and emotional well-being. In this session, participants will discuss a variety of effective practices supported by Region 3 TTA Specialists, for preventing and addressing behaviors that challenge adults.
| Region 3 TTA Team |
A Look Back and A Look Ahead
| Description | Presenter |
| A Look Back: Take-aways from Covid, take-aways from today’s training, etc. A Look Ahead: Parking lot questions and networking
| Dawn Ault |
Emergency Preparedness Response & Recovery (EPRR)
| Description | Presenter |
| This interactive session will support participants in planning for emergencies. Emergency Preparedness includes planning and preparation in the event of disasters, pandemics, staff training, parent planning and information, dealing with disaster recovery, and psychological first aid to support children, staff, and families who have been through traumatic emergency events. Participants will learn what you need to do to prepare for emergencies, understand the different types of responses, identify actions to take during the recovery phase and explore resources to assist programs with Emergency Preparedness Response and Recovery.
| Region 3 TTA Team
Led by Rashanda Jenkins, Health Specialist |
It Takes a Village… Establish and Maintain HSAC
“Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much”-Helen Keller
| Description | Presenter |
| The Office of Head Start requires recipients to establish and maintain a Health Services Advisory Committee (HSAC) to support children’s healthy development. HSAC’s are comprised of local health, dental and behavioral health providers, as well as Head Start parents, staff, volunteers, and community partners. Effective community partnerships are an essential key to maintaining and sustaining an effective HSAC. In this session, participants will review the foundations for building and maintaining an HSAC, discuss the importance of involving and engaging key stakeholders and community partners, identify and share best practices and strategies for sustainability and retention, and explore processes for continuous quality improvement.
| Region 3 TTA Team
Led by Rashanda Jenkins, Health Specialist |
HSAC and FSW Networking Meetings
| Description | Presenter |
| Health Advisory Committee Meeting – main room
Family service Network Meeting – classroom | Julie Greene Pam Waddell |
Our Partner, Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning through the Arts, brings us Terlene D. Terry-Todd, a Master Teaching Artist for Wolf Trap.
Terry-Todd, Terlene bioHow do you start your day? Teaching Artists like to use short, artful “energizers” in both professional and classroom settings to promote mindfulness and help prime students for learning. Energizers also help students reflect on what they’ve learned, and can be a useful tool for self-regulation and classroom management.
More about Energizers click HERE
Rashanda Jenkins: Region 3 TTA Health Specialist
Rashanda Jenkins has served the HS/EHS community for over 13 years. Ms. Jenkins joined the TTA Network in 2019 as a Health Specialist. In her tenure as Health Specialist, she supports recipients with individualized TTA in areas such as safe and healthy learning environments; new health leadership and orientation; emergency preparedness; ongoing monitoring and quality improvement systems; and data monitoring and tracking. In her previous roles, while working at a recipient program, she analyzed and used multiple program datasets to make informed decisions for program operations, ongoing monitoring, and quality improvement. Ms. Jenkins provided resources and information on health-related topics and supported states in developing and strengthening state health manager networks. This wide-ranging experience with building organizational capacity and management systems enables her to provide TTA in specialty areas of data analysis, health and safety, and group facilitation and presentation. Ms. Jenkins currently lives in Arlington, Virginia.
Dr. Pamela Waddell: Region 3 TTA Family Engagement Specialist
Dr. Pamela Waddell has served the HS/EHS community for over 20 years, 9 of which have been in TTA. She has served in the capacities of Grantee Specialist and, most recently, Grantee Specialist Manager. At her previous employment as a Head Start director, she engaged families in all aspects of program operations, including the policy council. In addition, she provided oversight to family services and PD to family services workers. During her time as a Grantee Specialist in the TTA Network, she provided TTA to management teams including PFCE managers to ensure family services were fully integrated. She also has experience in providing training and technical assistance to programs serving children birth to five and has developed and presented training at local, state, and regional events and conferences on a variety of program topics that include leadership and management systems, data, ERSEA, curriculum, child growth and development, health and safety, child outcomes, mental health, and assessment. Dr. Waddell currently lives in Tazewell, Virginia.
Registration is now CLOSED.
Please note:
Registration will close at capacity which is 100 people.
Book Online with the Fairfield Inn and Suites Charlottesville North:
Breakfast and Wifi included in rate
Walking distance to the Conference Center
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