Virtual Event: Beyond Self-Care: What Actually Protects the Early Childhood Workforce?

**Live Attendance Required to earn CEUs** (complete all requirements within 30 days of event). 

Health and Development Risk and Protective Factors: how and why multiple factors—including community, economic, political, and cultural influences—support or impede healthy development and the quality of relationships; and ways to work with families to identify strengths and use them as resources to reinforce protective factors, help manage challenges, and reduce risks

Beyond Self-Care: What Actually Protects the Early Childhood Workforce?

January 20, 2027, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM ET

Special Member Exclusive follow-on discussion, 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM ET

Early childhood professionals are often encouraged to practice self-care. Yet their well-being is also shaped by working conditions, organizational supports, and the physical and emotional demands of the work.

Join your VME host, Katrina Macasaet, for an interactive, research-informed exploration of what helps early childhood professionals stay well and remain present for the children and families who depend on them. Through live polls, myth-busting, expert insights, and facilitated discussion, participants will examine common beliefs about workforce stress and consider where meaningful responsibility for well-being belongs.

Bring your experience and test what you think you know. You will leave with a clearer understanding of the individual, program, and systems-level supports that can strengthen workforce well-being and sustain high-quality practice.

This is more than a webinar. Bring your perspective and participate in live polls, myth-busting, and discussion throughout the 90-minute event.

Learner Objectives: By the end of this Virtual Member Event, participants will be able to:

• Recognize at least two working conditions that can influence early childhood professionals’ well-being and their interactions with young children.
  
• Distinguish individual self-care strategies from program- and systems-level supports for workforce well-being.

**Live Attendance Required** (complete within 30 days of event). All registrants will have 30-day access to the session recording.

ZERO TO THREE is pleased to offer Continuing Education Units for a wide range of learning events, both in person and on line.

Contact hours and CEUs are automatically added to your registration for no additional charge. Registrants can earn up to 0.1 CEU or 1 Contact hour for attending this event. Continuing Education Units are awarded with live attendance, completed session evaluation, and a passing quiz score of 75% or greater. 

Learner Objectives:

• Recognize at least two working conditions that can influence early childhood professionals’ well-being and their interactions with young children.
  
• Distinguish individual self-care strategies from program- and systems-level supports for workforce well-being.

Contact hours offered may vary per discipline. For more information regarding ZERO TO THREE CEUs, please visit: https://www.zerotothree.org/resources/1657-earn-ceus-from-zero-to-three. Please note: A computer or electronic device with internet connection is required for successful completion. This session will be hosted for one hour and includes a brief introduction, 45 mins of content based teaching, and 10 to 15 minutes of Q and A. Questions can be posted throughout the session, and the presenter will address as many as possible. 

Additional Details:

ZERO TO THREE is accredited as an Authorized Provider of Continuing Education and Training by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET). In obtaining this accreditation, we have demonstrated compliance with the ANSI/IACET Standard, which is recognized internationally as a standard of excellence in instructional practices. As the official standard for continuing education and training, IACET Continuing Education Units (CEUs) are recognized by a wide range of organizations, including professional associations, regulatory boards, corporations, and universities.

Though IACET CEUs are widely accepted, it is up to each organization to choose whether or not it will accept them. For this reason, we strongly advise that you confirm in advance if a particular body accepts IACET CEUs. To view a list of companies, regulatory boards, and organizations that have reported to accept the IACET CEU credit, please click here. This list is not exhaustive, nor does it guarantee that an IACET CEU will automatically be accepted. 

*Presenters have affirmed that they do not have proprietary interest in products, instruments, devices, services or materials discussed in this course, and have confirmed that they have not been compensated in relation to this presentation.