Early Education and Development

Service: Training for professionals who work with families, as well as parent groups, corporations, and others interested in issues related to young children with special needs. Services include conference presentations, workshops, University courses, and instructional videos.

Provider: Staff at the Institute on Community Integration and the University's Center for Early Education and Development (CEED)

Training Available: The following training services are available through CEED –

• Attachment: Primary Relationships Between Children and Their Caregivers
• Theater-Based Violence Prevention Training for Early Education Professionals
• Building Bridges: Effectively Communicating Through Conflict
• Creating Peaceful Classrooms: Violence Prevention and Intervention in Early Childhood Education
• Early Brain Research—What We Know Now
• Infant Mental Health
• Introduction to Infant/Toddler Mental Health Services in Minnesota
• Stress and Trauma in Young Children
• Supporting the Mental Health of Young Children

Audience: Participants in past training events have included the following –

• Administrators
• Center-based and in-home child care providers
• Child protection workers
• College instructors
• Community leaders
• Early childhood educators
• Foster and adoptive parents
• Guardians ad litem
• Head Start staff
• Legislators
• Minnesota Extension Service staff
• Nurses
• Occupational therapists
• Paraprofessionals
• Parent educators
• Physical therapists
• Program Directors
• Psychologist
• Social workers
• Special education personnel
• Speech and language specialists

Past Clients: Organizations and groups that have hired CEED to conduct training in the past have included the following –

• Minnesota Association for the Education of Young Children (MnAEYC)
• Minnesota Department of Children, Families, and Learning
• Minnesota Department of Human Services
• University of Minnesota–Duluth
• University of Minnesota Extension Service
• Minneapolis Early Childhood Family Education
• Metropolitan State University
• Minnesota Child Care Research and Data Group
• Roseville Area Schools Early Childhood Special Education
• Greater Minneapolis Day Care Association (GMDCA)
• Minnesota Statewide Paraprofessional Conference
• Lakes and Prairies Child Care Resource and Referral
• Scott-Carver-Dakota CAP Agency, Inc.
• Community Action Council, Lakeville, MN

Contact: For more information on CEED's services, visit their Web site or contact Christopher Watson at the below location –

Center for Early Education and Development

Attn. Christopher Watson

University of Minnesota

215 Pattee Hall

150 Pillsbury Drive SE

Minneapolis, MN 55455

Phone: 612-625-2898

Fax: 612-625-6619

E-mail: watso012@tc.umn.edu

Web site: http://cehd.umn.edu/ceed