• Individual standing in front of projected diagram.

    Kristen Hassmiller-Lich, provided technical assistance on how to create a systems map using a web based program. Kristen Hasmiller-Lich was part of a team of consultants from the National Maternal Child Health (MCH) Workforce Development Center that visited Guam to provide training and technical assistance to the Guam Cohort 2 Leadership Team on June 24-26, 2015 at the Multi-purpose room 129, Jesus and Eugenia Leon Guerrero Building, University of Guam.

  • Two individuals standing in front of a diagram presenting to a room full of seated individuals.

    Dorothy Cilenti (standing left) and Kristen Hassmiller-Lich (standing right) facilitated a session on program flow diagramming during the National MCH Workforce Development Center, Guam site-visit, on June 24-26, 2015 at the Multi-purpose room 129, Jesus and Eugenia Leon Guerrero Building, University of Guam.

  • Participants standing in ascending order on stairs posing for photo

    Guam Cohort 2 Leadership Team gathered for a group picture with the National MCH Workforce Development Center Consultants, Kristen Hasmiller-Lich (1st row bottom left), Dorothy Cilenti (2nd row far left), and Sharron Corle (3rd row far left). The Guam Cohort 2 Leadership Team is a team of early childhood agency administrators and representatives and parents that have been receiving technical assistance from the National MCH Workforce Development Center on how to improve early care & education services and early childhood health & human services integration on Guam. Parents were involved with the team along with representatives from the following agencies: Division of Public Health; Maternal Child Health Program; Child Care Development Fund; Bureau Of Social Services Administration; Immunization Program; Early Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment Program; Women Infant Children Program; Project Karinu; Project Bisita I Familia; Project Launch; and Project Tinituhon.

National MCH Site-Visit TA

by Guam CEDDERS Bureau of Social Services Administration Community Services: Training Department of Public Health & Social Services Early Childhood Guam Launch Project Bisita I Familia Project Kariñu

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.

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.