Our Professional Development and Continuing Education programs for human service professionals provide the highest quality training. The goal of our programs is to strengthen professional knowledge and skills across disciplines to enhance services to parents.

The Advanced Certificate Program in Parent Education is an intensive training program designed for the experienced parent educator and/or clinician who is working with parents. Its goal is to promote a deepened understanding of the theories, values, and principles that inform this work. There is a growing body of knowledge supporting the notion that the participation of parents in parent education programs enhances parent-child interaction and the development of healthy children in important ways. Participants will build a solid foundation of knowledge regarding the development of families along a variety of continuum. Development will be studied from infancy through adolescence.

The Certificate will be awarded at the end of the program. Participants will be able to receive Continuing Education credits and contact hours for the program from a variety of disciplines. The program consists of a total of 100 hours.





Second Annual Master Seminar:
Supporting Families with Young Children

An internationally recognized expert on child development, Dr. Ed Tronick’s unique perspective as both a renowned researcher and an esteemed clinician provides a distinctive power to his work.

The training will provide an opportunity for discussion of why some infants, children, and adults are robust in the face of challenges while others seem fragile, how self-regulation and mutual regulation are related to developmental processes in early childhood, and how the interactions of daily life can promote resilience in infants and young children.





Professional Development Workshops
All programs will offer 6 units of Continuing Education Credit or the equivalent.

December 11, 2008, Secure Base Behavior: The Developing Parent-Child Relationships and the Circle of Security Program—A Comprehensive Model for Education and Intervention

February 5, 2009, Parenting Young Children Whose Lives Intersect with the Child Welfare System: What Children Need

May 1, 2009, Postpartum Depression: Essential Knowledge for Assessment and Treatment

June 5, 2009, Making Sense of the Loss: Understanding and Working with Parents of Children on the Autism Spectrum