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Opening and Policy Plenary
9:00am
LEARN Conference 2023 - Policy Plenary
Telling the story of babies is more important than ever. Join ZERO TO THREE for the release of the fifth annual State of Babies Yearbook and be among the first to see new data on how America’s babies and families are faring. This session will highlight notable national findings; explore persistent inequities by race, ethnicity, and income level; and highlight using data and stories that bring the data to life to advocate for your state’s babies. Plenary speakers will reflect on Yearbook findings as a springboard for action on policies to ensure that all babies can thrive.
Baby Talks (BT) Group D
10:30am
Baby Talks (BT) Group D: Inclusive Family- and Learner-Centered Engagement
BT-D1: Family-Engaged Developmental Monitoring: Implications and Applications
Description: This session will explore family-engaged developmental monitoring (FEDM) as a strategy to advance equity, center families as experts, and affirm a family-driven, asset-based approach that aligns with families’ priorities. Participants will learn more about individual, programmatic, and system-level alignment with FEDM efforts and discuss practical applications.
BT-D2: Anganwadi-School Integration for Quality Early Childhood Education: Policy to Practice
Description: Learn about the journey to develop a seamless system from preschool to the senior secondary stage in Rajasthan, India to meet the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) for Education to: “Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.”
BT-D3: Family-Centered Design: A Family Engagement Strategy for Building Equity and Social Justice
Description: Learn about features of Family Centered Design, an innovative approach to family engagement that brings families, staff, and leaders together to experience compassionate processes that honor lived experiences. Together, participants identify significant issues, deepen relationships, and problem-solve using innovative ideas and processes, immersing participants in embodied learning experiences.
Lecture Sessions (LS) Group D
10:30am
Lecture Session D1: Meeting the Need: A Three-State Comparison of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Workforce Development Projects and Outcomes
Explore three infant and early childhood mental health (IECMH) workforce development programs and the elements which contributed to positive outcomes for their respective states. Examine the comparative analysis anchored in ZERO TO THREE’s IECMH Clinical Workforce Solution Pathways model, identifying how various “starting points” can result in similar outcomes.
10:30am
Lecture Session D2: From Powerless to Powerful: Engaging Early Care and Education Providers in Advocacy to Move Public Policy
Consider strategies for advocacy efforts that focus on building communities of advocates, empowering providers and parents to participate in advocacy efforts, facilitating parent education surrounding advocacy and child care funding, recruiting and training campaign volunteers, and raising community awareness on how child care and the workforce go hand-in-hand.
10:30am
Lecture Session D3: Empowering Families of Children with Multiple Disabilities: Building Resiliency and Early Skills for a Brighter Future
Focus on the importance of individualized teaching strategies for both families and children who have disabilities. Consider the importance of a family-centered approach, building resiliency in families, and how to then approach supporting their child in early learning skills.
10:30am
Lecture Session D4: Rethinking the Role of Professional Development as a Workforce Support Strategy – A Story from Mississippi
Learn how Mississippi uses professional development (PD) to support the workforce in equitable and effective ways. Hear from early childhood education leaders about cross-sector collaboration to promote equity and best practices among early educators. Gain actionable strategies to consider or adopt in your state’s efforts to improve PD spanning child care, preschool, and Early/Head Start.
10:30am
Lecture Session D5: Featuring ZTT Work—Honoring “Home” in Home-based Programs
Early learning leaders explore, nurture, and grow home visitors’ ability in honoring the diversity of families while partnering with them to support children’s development. This session will use the newly revised Multicultural Principles (MCP) framework to equip leaders to support home visitors in examining their own perceptions and unconscious bias and how they impact supports offered to children and families. The MCPs lay the foundation for building trust, garnering respect, valuing family identities, and understanding the reciprocity of information exchange between education staff and families reflecting the diverse cultures within the community.
10:30am
Lecture Session D6: HealthySteps Session—Strengthening Infrastructure and Processes to Collect and Report Outcome Data: Lessons from Three Primary Care Clinics
Learn about the findings from a HealthySteps Outcome Pilot Study. Gain insights from three primary care clinics’ experiences building infrastructure and processes to report data, and contextualize outcome results by benchmarking them against similar population-level measures. Discuss lessons learned and strategies that sites can apply to track outcomes.
Issue Intensives (II) Group B, Part 1 of 2
10:30am
Issue Intensive B1: Practicing Reflection as an Act of Rebellion, Liberation and Power: Listening One Year After the BIPOC Community of Leaders in Reflective Practice
Seventy-three Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) early childhood providers participated in a journey of self-awareness, radical healing and collective liberation in reflective practice. After 1-year, they shared the impact, barriers and hopes for practice and policy change. We invite you to explore our roles in promoting or dismantling barriers experienced by BIPOC providers.
10:30am
Issue Intensive B2: Policy and Advocacy are Not a Mystery: A Call to Action for Individuals and Systems Leaders
Have you ever wanted to change systems and participate in policy and advocacy but don’t know how? Each of us can help raise system leaders’ awareness of social injustices in our communities. Systems leaders can authentically engage with and learn from their constituents, including people least included in these discussions. Explore advocacy and policy with example perspectives from the systems-, programmatic-, and individual-level and strategies for each and all to consider.
10:30am
Issue Intensive B3: Amplifying Family Voices in Your Community
Learn about an interactive workbook and other support for early childhood professionals in community-based organizations to authentically center the voices of families in early childhood programs, practices, and policy decisions. Gain a concrete tool to help you examine current family engagement practices and support new commitments to deepen engagement in your community.
Baby Talks (BT) Group E
Baby Talks (BT) Group E: Innovations for Advancing Change
BT-E1: Introducing the ECLDS Census Data Tool
Description: Minnesota’s Early Childhood Longitudinal Data System (ECLDS) makes available state- and county-level American Community Survey data in detailed age bands—babies, toddlers, preschoolers—to enable a closer look at children under age 6. Join for a demonstration of the Census Data Tool, featuring 2010, 2015, and 2020 five-year estimates on twenty topics.
BT-E2: Using an Innovative, Two-Pronged Approach to Drive Political Action
Description: Explore ways to incorporate policy experts within a direct patient service program, and how this structure can help drive local and federal political action.
BT-E3: Community Solutions: An Innovative Model for Grant Making
Description: Community Solutions is an innovative grant model that recognizes that community-led solutions are key to improving family well-being. Learn about the wide range of solutions grantees are implementing that focus on whole-person health and culturally specific services.
Lecture Sessions (LS) Group E
1:00pm
Lecture Session E1: “They Just Don’t Get It”: Building Professional Capacity to Support Parents When a Child Dies
Siegel described the 4S’s—Safe, Seen, Soothed, Secure, as the interpersonal neurobiology of attachment. We propose these concepts to organize our understanding of times we face professional barriers to connection and offer a promise of building relational safety with families experiencing grief due to the death of a child.
1:00pm
Lecture Session E2: Meeting Families Where They Are: A Two-Generation Approach
By helping families access high-quality early care and learning programs, the Child Care Resource & Referral (CCRR) Network helps children get the best start for lifelong learning. Explore how the state of Indiana uses a two-generational framework to expand CCRR services to include intentional connections with organizations that meet families’ needs.
1:00pm
Lecture Session E3: Building Statewide Capacity to Identify and Serve Young Children with Autism and their Families
Learn about a model program created in partnership with a state-wide Part C system to improve access to evaluations for autism and follow-up support for families, particularly those who are traditionally under-served. Discover how Part C providers are included in the process, increasing access to high-quality care.
1:00pm
Lecture Session E4: Creating and Sustaining a Statewide Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Teleconsultation Program for Cross-Sector Early Childhood Professionals
Review a statewide teleconsultation program that was implemented to increase access to infant and early childhood mental health training and consultation. Learn about the program’s pre-implementation efforts, core components, usage and satisfaction outcome data, sustainability plans, and practice recommendations. Consider the applicability of the program components and practices to your work.
1:00pm
Lecture Session E5: Featuring ZTT Work—The Momentum is Real: Implementation Progress on the Unifying Framework for the Early Childhood Education Profession
The Unifying Framework for the Early Childhood Education Profession represents a vision for the profession with distinct educator designations and roles, aligned preparation pathways, professional compensation, and supportive infrastructure. Advancing the bold transformation this framework presents requires thoughtful implementation and intentional investments over time—and this work is underway. Consider opportunities and challenges in your own state as we share state-level progress to implement the Unifying Framework’s recommendations and the national-level work of the Commission on Professional Excellence in Early Childhood Education.
1:00pm
Lecture Session E6a: HealthySteps Session—HealthyStep-ing Up: Scaling and Impact in Colorado
Learn about statewide efforts to expand HealthySteps across Colorado over the past decade. Discuss strategic strategies used to scale the model, including site cultivation, community and partner engagement, and advocacy. Hear about implementation at specific clinics and systems as an illustration of outcomes of high-quality implementation.
1:00pm
Lecture Session E6b: HealthySteps Session— Addressing Disparities and Collaboration in Early Intervention Referrals: Exploring Innovative Approaches and Lessons Learned
Explore the approach the HealthySteps program at University of Maryland, Baltimore is using to facilitate successful early intervention referrals. Discuss preliminary program data that demonstrate an increase in completed referrals and a decrease in wait time for connection to services.
Issue Intensives (II) Group B, Part 2 of 2
1:00pm
Issue Intensive B1: Practicing Reflection as an Act of Rebellion, Liberation and Power: Listening One Year After the BIPOC Community of Leaders in Reflective Practice
Seventy-three Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) early childhood providers participated in a journey of self-awareness, radical healing and collective liberation in reflective practice. After 1-year, they shared the impact, barriers and hopes for practice and policy change. We invite you to explore our roles in promoting or dismantling barriers experienced by BIPOC providers.
1:00pm
Issue Intensive B2: Policy and Advocacy are Not a Mystery: A Call to Action for Individuals and Systems Leaders
Have you ever wanted to change systems and participate in policy and advocacy but don’t know how? Each of us can help raise system leaders’ awareness of social injustices in our communities. Systems leaders can authentically engage with and learn from their constituents, including people least included in these discussions. Explore advocacy and policy with example perspectives from the systems-, programmatic-, and individual-level and strategies for each and all to consider.
1:00pm
Issue Intensive B3: Amplifying Family Voices in Your Community
Learn about an interactive workbook and other support for early childhood professionals in community-based organizations to authentically center the voices of families in early childhood programs, practices, and policy decisions. Gain a concrete tool to help you examine current family engagement practices and support new commitments to deepen engagement in your community.
Baby Talks (BT) Group F
2:15pm
Baby Talks (BT) Group F: Expanding Service Paradigms
BT-F1: Seeing Life Differently: Experiences with Families and Pediatric Ophthalmologists in the Clinic
Description: In 2020, our early childhood non-profit organization collaborated with local pediatric ophthalmologists to explore the benefits of an educational and clinical assessment center within our building. Learn how the benefits have been extraordinary for all involved, as we learn from each other and build a culture of collaboration.
BT-F2: Interoceptive Awareness in Early Childhood: Connecting Bodily Sensations to Emotions
Description: Learn about interoception, the eighth sense, and how interoceptive awareness impacts our decision-making process, intuition, and many skills including the ability to take the perspective of another. Reflect on your interoceptive awareness and learn strategies to build your interventions.
BT-F3: The Impact of Reducing Barriers and Expanding Child Care Health Consultation to Increase Care Quality
Description: Child care health consultation (CCHC) can improve care quality for children in licensed child care settings. This session shares evaluation findings from novel CCHC programs that expand the definition of care to include and better reach underserved and informal care providers by reducing barriers to consultation including language, culture, and geography.
Lecture Sessions (LS) Group F
2:15pm
Lecture Session F1: Bridging Communication Together: Reflections on Clinical Treatment of a Trilingual Family
This presentation will discuss clinical treatment of a dyad with a Deaf caregiver and a hearing child, where family members use combinations of American Sign Language (ASL), Spanish, and English. We will reflect on the intersections of this family’s marginalized identities, treatment decisions, lessons learned, and clinical takeaways.
2:15pm
Lecture Session F2: One Small Step for Early Learning, A Giant Leap for Later Life Success: Going Beyond with Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation
Learn about Miami-Dade’s Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation program, which works to ensure social-emotional development is embedded in teaching practices while reducing teacher stress. Gain content to help inform expulsion policies and teacher practice toward the inclusion of all children, especially those at risk for expulsion.
2:15pm
Lecture Session F3: Decreasing Disparities in Early Identification and Intervention of Autism Spectrum Disorder Using Telehealth and Parent-Mediated Approaches
Although children from rural regions of the US have a higher incidence of behavioral and developmental disorders than children in cities and suburbs, there is less access to treatment and fewer adequately trained specialists. Learn about the convergence of research that provides insight into potential ways to mitigate disparities in early identification and treatment of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in rural areas. Explore with us three different parent-mediated early intervention modalities we offer to families via telehealth and how these interventions can improve child and parent outcomes as well as address challenges in providing services in rural areas to children with ASD and their parents.
2:15pm
Lecture Session F4: Focusing on the First 40 days: Postpartum Wellbeing for Somali Parents
The health of postpartum parents is critical for early child development and requires attention to education, connection, and community-building. New immigrant parents face particular challenges and many lack the cultural supports of their home countries. Join us to explore how to deliver appropriate education and support to Somali postpartum parents.
2:15pm
Lecture Session F5: Conversations to Connections: Strategies for Talking to Pregnant Expectant Families About Substance Use
Conversations with expectant families about substance use and recovery can support health equity. Join this session to learn how motivational interviewing strategies can promote open and ongoing conversations about substance use with expectant families. Engage in reflection and regulation-based activities to support conversations that build connections.
2:15pm
Lecture Session F6: Igniting a Statewide Movement to Support Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health
Hear about the role of political will, social strategy, and knowledge base in fueling the success of Georgia’s infant and early childhood mental health (IECMH) movement. Consider lessons learned and strategies to leverage partnerships that can foster policy-level support for IECMH in your state.
2:15pm
Lecture Session F7: Empowering Early Childhood Professionals in Culturally and Linguistically Responsive, Equity-Centered Assessment for Systems Change
One approach to addressing and understanding early childhood systems of care outcomes is creating culturally and linguistically responsive measures and practices that reflect the strengths, stories, and experiences of historically marginalized children, families, and practitioners. Define and discuss equity-centered assessment experiences in relation to family-centered and relationship-based care models that center early childhood professionals, children, and families. Be empowered by shared language you can use in your service delivery, administration, advocacy, and training.
2:15pm
Lecture Session F8: HealthySteps Session—Before Me Up to Age 3-Addressing Maternal Mental Health Concerns in a Novel 2-Generational Approach to Care
Hear about a novel program intended to identify and manage perinatal mood and anxiety disorders in a unique wrap-around program within the OB-GYN and pediatric primary care clinics at a large city hospital. Consider and discuss clinical and systems perspectives with example cases.
2:15pm
Lecture Session F9: Innovative Leaders Making a Powerful Difference: IECMH Emerging Leadership Awardees
Connect with the 2023 Emerging Leadership Awardees and discover the ways they are impacting infant and early childhood mental health (IECMH) practices, policies, and systems. Be inspired by their passion, contributions, and goals. Reflect on your own professional journey with the insights you will gain from this session.
2:15pm
Lecture Session F10: Member Exclusive Q&A with ZERO TO THREE’s Policy Team
MEMBER EXCLUSIVE
Join members of the ZERO TO THREE Policy Team for an intimate Q&A session and find answers to all the policy-related questions floating around in your head. Whether you have tons of advocacy experience or none at all, discover what you can do in your community to shape systems to support babies and become a big voice for little kids.
Keynote
3:30pm
LEARN Conference 2023 - Keynote
Use your head. That’s what we tell ourselves when facing a tricky problem or a difficult project. But a growing body of research indicates that we’ve got it exactly backwards. What we need to do, says acclaimed science writer Annie Murphy Paul, is think outside the brain. A host of “extra-neural” resources—the feelings and movements of our bodies, the physical spaces in which we learn and work, and the minds of those around us—can help us focus more intently, comprehend more deeply, and create more imaginatively.
In her keynote address, Paul will explore the research behind this exciting new vision of human ability, exploring the findings of neuroscientists, cognitive scientists, psychologists, and examining the practices of educators, managers, and leaders who are already reaping the benefits of thinking outside the brain.
