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Let’s Connect® Parenting Intervention

Let's Connect® - Parenting Intervention
Let’s Connect® Parenting Intervention: Virtual Training
Let’s Connect® (LC) is a parenting intervention that teaches caregivers to identify and respond to children’s emotional needs and behaviors in a way that builds connection and warmth and promotes children’s emotional competence, sense of emotional security, and well-being. Don’t be late! Early Bird Registration ends on 11th August 2023.
 
INTRODUCTION
Nurture Growth Nurture Relationships presents “Let’s Connect®” – which is a parenting intervention that teaches caregivers to identify and respond to children’s emotional needs and behaviors in a way that builds connection and warmth and promotes children’s emotional competence, sense of emotional security, and well-being. Let’s Connect® does this in four primary ways:
    1. Provides caregiver education about resilience, social and emotional development, family emotional climate, children’s behavioral challenges, and other topics specific to each family, including child trauma.
    2. Builds caregivers own social and emotional skills and well-being, including caregiver self-awareness, perspective taking, emotional regulation, and supportive presence.
    3. Teaches caregivers specific skills for interacting with their child in a way that promotes supportive relationship quality, child social and emotional competence, and children’s mental/behavioral health and well-being.
    4. Supports caregivers in developing intentional environments that integrate rituals, routines, and daily rhythms into the home to promote predictability, consistency, and opportunities for connection.
Let’s Connect® skills are grounded in developmental and clinical research. Research shows that caregiver response to child emotion is central to fostering children’s social and emotional competence (e.g., emotion regulation), emotional security, mental/behavioral/physical health, and overall resilience. LC offers individualized training, skills modeling, and live support for skills practice for caregivers of children and youth (ages 3-15) over approximately 8 to 12 sessions. Families gain specific tools for addressing behavioral challenges and talking about important, and sometimes difficult family topics, including family transitions, divorce, separation, illness, trauma, grief and loss. Let’s Connect® can be delivered as a ‘strategic enhancement’ to evidence-based child and family interventions, such as Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or as a stand-alone parenting intervention for any family. Let’s Connect® has been designated as a promising practice by the National Child Traumatic Stress Network.
 
COURSE CONTENT
LC skills include:
    * Noticing and Appreciatin
    * Listening to Learn more
    * Labeling Feelings
    * Emotion Support/validation skills
    * Emotion Coaching skills
    * Strategies for reducing behavioral challenges
LC skills are taught to parents/caregivers using a variety of methods:
    * direct instruction and discussion
    * role play
    * live, guided skills practice
    * reflection
    * guided mindfulness & self-care practices
Let’s Connect® Trainers have experience delivering Let’s Connect® to over 300 families. During Let’s Connect® four-day virtual training, attendees will:
    1. Learn about the Let’s Connect model and skills
    2. Practice Let’s Connect® Skills through role-play/vignettes
    3. Receive coaching and feedback on use of Let’s Connect® Skills by trainers/consultant.
    4. Learn how to track parents’ skill acquisition and use
 
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
Professionals such as social workers, psychologists, counsellors with at least 2 years of clinical/counselling experiences working with children and youths.
 
AWARD
Participants who meet 80% class attendance will be awarded a Certificate of Accomplishment.
 
COURSE FEES
EARLY BIRD Cost: $1250 (SGD) per participant, if registered by 11th August 2023. Hurry!
REGULAR Cost: $1500 (SGD) per participant.
Note: VWOs (Voluntary Welfare Organization) may apply for PCG grant for their participants.
Includes:
    * 4 half days of live virtual training (refer to the course schedule below)
    * 6 sessions (one hour each) of web-based consultation held over zoom
    * Materials and resources
Note: Additional details regarding web-based consultation will be provided during the training.
 
COURSE SCHEDULE
Dates: Aug 21, Aug 22, Aug 28 and Aug 29 2023
Timing: 8:00am – 12:00pm (Singapore Time)
Trainer(s): Dr. Monica Fitzgerald and Dr Marcela Torres
Trainer profile link: http://www.letsconnect.org/team
Venue: Online via Zoom
Participants: Limited to 25 max for conducive learning

APPLICATION and ENQUIRIES
For enquiries, contact us at [email protected] or +65-87585340