Child Care Staff Receive TA on Guam’s Plan for Professional Development

by Guam CEDDERS Department of Public Health & Social Services Early Childhood
Child caregivers meeting around table
Two sessions were coordinated by the Department of Public Health & Social Services, Bureau of Social Services Administration and facilitated by Guam CEDDERS to provide information and technical assistance for child care centers in preparation on the new process around professional development for all staff.

Pyramid Model Implementation Training Continues on Guam

by Guam CEDDERS Bureau of Social Services Administration Department of Public Health & Social Services Early Childhood
Dr. Corso stands with hand in air addressing crowd.
Dr. Robert Corso, consultant from the Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning (CSEFEL), talks about intervention at the top of the pyramid during training with early childhood service providers on Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation October 20-22.
Service providers engaged in discussion around table.
Service providers from the Department of Public Health and Social Services, Bureau of Social Services Administration discuss their action plan for implementing the Pyramid Model in their agency.

Service Providers Complete Early Childhood Diagnostic Toolkit Training

by Guam CEDDERS Early Childhood Project Kariñu
Dr. Bellis addressing a large lecture room.
Dr. Kirk Bellis addresses participants during the Early Childhood Mental Health: Diagnostic Frameworks for Clinician’s Tool Kit training on October 3 at the University of Guam.
Group photo of training participants.
Early childhood service providers from various Government of Guam and Federal Government agencies as well as private and non-profit entities completed a 2-day training on Early Childhood Mental Health: Diagnostic Frameworks for Clinician’s Tool Kit on October 2 & 3. The training was facilitated by Dr. Lilli Perez from Project Kariñu in collaboration with Guam CEDDERS.

Healthy Families “Integrated Strategies for Home Visiting” Training

by Guam CEDDERS Bureau of Social Services Administration Department of Public Health & Social Services Project Bisita I Familia Project Kariñu
Instructor teaching in classroom
Healthy Families America “Integrated Strategies for Home Visiting” training participants listen to trainer Casey Holt (standing) as she describes the different parts of the brain and how trauma affects its development.
Instructor holding different colored bowls.
Casey Holt, nationally certified trainer for Healthy Families America, uses bowls to demonstrate the different parts of the brain during “Integrated Strategies for Home Visiting” training at GSAT July 28-31, 2014. Healthy Families America is the home visiting model used by Project Bisita I Familia, Guam’s Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program. Participants represent Department of Public Health & Social Services-Project Kariñu, Project Bisita I Familia and Bureau of Social Services Administration; and Guam CEDDERS.

 

Group photo
Healthy Families America “Integrated Strategies for Home Visiting” training participants pose with trainer Casey Holt (holding sign) and Margarita Gay (first row 3rd from left), Project Bisita I Familia project director.

Guam Early Learning Guidelines: Three to Five Years Undergoes Revisions

by Guam CEDDERS Early Childhood
Photo of lecture hall with participants an facilitator
Charlie Harper (standing), Guam CEDDERS Educational Consultant, facilitates a discussion with child care center directors on activities to include in the Guam Early Learning Guidelines: Three to Five Years revisions on July 18, 2014 at the School of Business and Public Administration building.
Photo of lecture hall with participants seated
Child care center directors work on their input to the revisions of the Guam Early Guidelines: Three to Five Years.

Live Demonstration of Video Remote Interpreting and Remote Captioning

by Guam CEDDERS Guam Systems for Assistive Technology

Demonstration of live remote interpreting on screen.

Demonstration of remote interpreting.
Stephen Frank (on large screen), HASA Video Remote Interpreting Director, provides a live demonstration of remote video interpreting during a meeting facilitated by Carla Torres (standing in red and black stripes), ATP, Assistive Technology and Special Projects Coordinator, Guam System for Assistive Technology (GSAT) on July 8. Approximately 50 service providers, agency representatives and self-advocates who are deaf attended the event which also included a live demonstration of remote CART (Communication Access Realtime Translation).

Guam CEDDERS Partners with USC LEND on Autism Training

by Guam CEDDERS Uncategorized
Parents in Teleconference
Parents take notes while Irina Zamora, Psy.D., (on screen) walks through some strategies on “Managing Challenging Behaviors” via teleconference from the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles on June 7. This training was the first of four meetings facilitated by the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Autism Treatment Network Center for Excellence and the USC University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities LEND Training Program. Additional training sessions were held on June 14, which highlighted “Strategies to Improve Sleep in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders,” June 21, which featured “Nutritional Challenges in Children with ASD/Overview of Constipation Toolkit,” and June 28, which focused on an “Overview of the Visual Support Toolkit.”

Pacific VIP Scholars Attend UMass Boston Graduation Ceremonies

by Guam CEDDERS Pacific VIP
Graduation photo
Eight participants of the Pacific Vision Instruction Project (Pacific VIP) attended the graduation ceremonies held on May 30 on the campus of the University of Massachusetts-Boston. Sitting (L-R): William Kiernan, Ph.D., Dean of School of Global Inclusion and Social Development and Director of UMass Boston University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD); Glinda Hill, U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs Project Officer; Donna McNear, Pacific VIP Consultant; Paula Kosior, UMass Boston Faculty; Sandy Smith, UMass Boston Faculty; Wendy Buckley; UMass Boston Faculty; Bob McCulley, UMass Boston Faculty and Pacific VIP Liaison. Standing (L-R): June De Leon, Guam CEDDERS Associate Director and Pacific VIP Project Director; Gretchen Fisher Orr, New England region graduate; Diane Artero, Guam Scholar; Jennifer Shoniber; Pohnpei Scholar; Sigalu Epenesa, American Samoa Scholar; Amy Epati, American Samoa Scholar; Jennifer Buniag, CNMI Scholar; Sulugia Fa’atau, American Samoa Scholar; Chelsea Phillip, Chuuk Scholar; Mekioshy William, Chuuk Scholar; Heidi San Nicolas, Ph.D., Director, Guam CEDDERS.

Pacific VIP Scholar Receives Top Student Award

by Guam CEDDERS Pacific VIP
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Program administrators and faculty gather on May 29 to honor Diane Artero, Pacific VIP Scholar who received the prestigious Book Award for Academic Excellence in the University of Massachusetts Boston Vision Studies/School for Global Inclusion and Social Development. (L-R): Heidi San Nicolas, Ph.D., Director, Guam CEDDERS; William Kiernan, Ph.D., Dean of School of Global Inclusion and Social Development and Director of UMass Boston Vision Studies/School for Global Inclusion and Social Development University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD); Paula Kosior, UMass Boston Faculty; Marybeth Dean, UMass Boston Faculty; Glinda Hill, U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs Project Officer; Diane Artero, Pacific VIP Scholar and Book Award Recipient; Robert McCulley, UMass Boston Faculty and Pacific VIP Liaison; and June De Leon, Associate Director, Guam CEDDERS and Pacific VIP Project Director.