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 IHSA Conferences
Spring Training
Conference
March 4-7, 2003
RENAISSANCE HOTEL
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Illinois 62701
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Wednesday,
March 5, 2003
9:00 - 12:00 a.m.Statewide Early Literacy
Networking Meeting Lauri Morrison-Frichtl Training and Technical Assistance
Specialist in Early Childhood Are you wondering what others are doing around
the early literacy initiative? Does your program make a healthy connection between
classroom and family literacy? This is a wonderful opportunity for Early Literacy
Mentor Coaches and Family Literacy staff to come together, network, gather new ideas
on promising practice and support your own professional development.
9:00 10:30 a.m.Supporting Infant/Toddler
Staff: Credentials, Career Paths and Professional Development, Julia Delapp,
Ounce of Prevention Explore with your colleagues the professional development
needs of infant/toddler staff and discuss the gaps in Illinois' current training
and higher education system. Contribute to the development of a new statewide Infant
Toddler Credential and an Early Childhood Career Lattice.
9:00 - 12:00 a.m.Infant and Toddler
West Ed Training Module III Learning and Development Diane King, Consultant
for Infants and Toddlers Programming This session will explore cognitive and
language development in very young children. Com and discover how you can facilitate
learning and support the children in your infant-toddler program. This presentation
qualifies participants for CEU Credit
Fathers Matter Too! Series of Fatherhood
Sessions (All of these sessions are repeated) Rosetta Biggerstaff, Family
and Community Development Coordinator, WADI Funded with support from the Administration
for Children and Families, Region V. At the close of each workshop the participants
will receive an item for their "Fathers Matter Too!" tool belt.
9:00 - 10:30 a.m.Fathers Matter Too!
Lessons Learned "Starting a Male Involvement Program" Rosetta
Biggerstaff, Family and Community Development Coordinator and member of Fathers Matter
Too Training Team with WADI; Bill Wood Co-presenter Attendees will be able
to - identify "lessons learned" from beginning a male involvement program
understand the importance of the father figure in children's lives identify ways
to increase male involvement in their program.
Fathers Matter Too! Using Support Network
Renee Lovelette, Family specialist and member of Fathers Matter Too Training
Team with WADI; Nancy Dixon Co-presenter Participants will enhance their ability
to maintain open relationships with members of their support network. Increase their
understanding of the attitudes and feelings of people who are in their network. Identify
effective ways to ask for help. Receive guidelines for balancing new and old relationships.
Illinois Facilities Fund Rick
Chapman, Representative Low interest funds available at 5% fixed for up to
15 years to assist Head Start Organizations.
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9:00 - 12:00 p.m.How to Deliver an Effective
Presentation George Haley, Program Manager, Springfield Urban League This
workshop is designed to encourage participants in developing their knowledge and
skills toward delivering an effective presentation. The workshop will discuss ways
to overcome fear, ways to set the stage for an effective presentation. Participants
will learn how to develop effective opening and closing statement.
Illinois Oral Health Action Plan for
Head Start/Early Head Start Children Orientation Gennie Gilmore, Assistant
Director, IDHS Head Start Collaboration Office This session will focus on
orienting health staff to the Illinois Oral Health Action Plan for Head Start/Early
Head Start children. Participants will receive an overview of the action plan and
ideas of how they can use the strategies/suggestions "back home" in their
community. Four key elements will be addressed.
10:30 - 12:00 p.m.Fathers Matter Too!
Sensitivity Toni Stehl, Family Specialist and member of Fathers Matter Too
Training Team with WADI; Amanda Doan Co-presenter Participants will increase
their knowledge of how stereotyping is very powerful and dangerous because it can
justify actions that restrict and exclude groups of people and limit their opportunities.
Learn how everyone needs to be on board to have a successful male involvement program.
10:30 - 12:00 p.m.Fathers Matter Too!
Domestic Violence Nancy Dixon, Family Specialist and member of Fathers Matter
Too Training Team with WADI; Renee Lovelette Co-presenter Participants will
increase their knowledge of domestic violence, their awareness of the impact of domestic
violence on victims and children. Recognize that domestic violence is completely
unacceptable. Participants will learn of strategies and resources for dealing with
domestic violence.
Calm Down! Calm Down! Cheravon
West, Prevention Partnership, Chicago; Shela West Co-presenter In this workshop
we will become skilled at calming ourselves and our environment consequently we become
more beautiful, healthier and prosperous.
2:15 - 3:45 p.m.Reading is Fundamental!
Where Kids and Books Come Together
Rachel Mellen, Child Care Collaboration
Manager, T.C.O.C. Presentation will focus on what RIF is, what running a RIF
program involves, and how it can improve family literacy, parent involvement and
community involvement.
School Readiness: What Do We Know About
How Ready We Are? Gennie Gilmore, Assistant Director, IDHS-Head Start State
Collaboration Office; Kay Henderson, Division Administrator, ISBE-Early Childhood
This session is designed to give classroom staff and parents an overview of
the school readiness studies that are being completed in the state of Illinois.
Who Knows Where the Money Goes? Dollar
Per Child Campaign Christie Banks, WADI; Stephanie Jackson-Rowe, CEDA; Donita
Haynes, Riverbend; and Debra Shepard, SIU-E IHSA Parent Board Members explain
the Dollar Per Child Campaign, how to generate dollars and how the money is used.
Sharing ideas and networking.
Infant and Toddler Training continued
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Fathers Matter Too! Introduction into
Team Parenting Amanda Doan, Head Start/Early Head Start Parent and member
of Fathers Matter Too Training Team with WADI; Toni Stehl Co-presenter Introduction
to concept of team parenting and possibility of working well with others in the best
interest of the child. Identify all the people who relate to them as a father/mother.
Identify the impact of parental conflict on children. Understand the rights and responsibilities
for unmarried parents raising children cooperatively.
Fathers Matter Too! Conflict Resolution/Anger
Management Bill
Doan, Head Start/Early Head Start Parent, Chairperson of Policy Council, Fathers
Matter Advisory member, Men in Action (M.I.A.) member, and member of Fathers Matter
Too Training Team with WADI; Bill Wood Co-presenter Participants will increase
their knowledge of anger and conflict as normal aspects of relationships. Recognize
that violence as a way of expressing anger is unacceptable, is usually illegal and
has negative consequences. Identify sources of conflicts between them and other parent
of their child. Explore their own anger styles and learn how to look for clues that
will help them recognize their feelings of anger. Identify and practice ways of resolving
conflicts and managing anger without violence.
$$$, Training & Standards Professional
Development For You!
Kathy Robson, TEACH Scholarship Program
Director, INCCRRA; Toni Freeman, Great START Counselor, INCCRRA Are you looking
for a scholarship to help you go back to school? Better access to quality training
and standards? Additional financial compensation for your dedication to the field?
The Illinois Network of Child Care Resource & Referral Agencies" (INCCRA)
professional development programs can help! INCCRRA's programs include TEACH. Early
Childhood Illinois Project, Great START, Illinois Director Credential, Illinois Trainers
Network and HeadsUp! Reading Illinois.
Clearing the Cobwebs: Some Myths and
Realities about Leadership -
George D. Peternel, Head Start Director,
Lake County Community Action
This full-day workshop designed for all
Head Start personnel, but especially for directors, managers, and other personnel
who occupy positions of leadership. The workshop is highly interactive and combines
lecture-discussion with small group discussions.
4:00 - 5:30 p.m.Linking Play to the
Early Learning Standards Carol Weisheit, Early Childhood Resource
Specialist, Starnet Regions I and III
A Head Start Approach to Mentoring Teachers
in Literacy
Anne-Marie Harland, Staff Development/Training
Specialist and Mentor, Wabash Area Development, Inc (WADI).; Alisa Abner, Staff Development/Training
Specialist & Mentor, WADI We will show how mentors can model best practices,
improve communication with team building, and enhance literacy awareness in the Head
Start Classroom
Who Says We Can't All Be Winners
Angie Messmer, Head Start Administrator,
Southern Seven Health Department; Sharon Stover, Family and Community Partnership
Director, Southern Seven Health Department
This presentation will provide participants
with information about developing collaborations and partnerships. To illustrate
these concepts the presentation will highlight a partnership model that has been
successfully implemented between Southern Seven Head Start and the Egyptian and Meridian
school districts.
Infant and Toddler West Ed continued
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Fathers Matter Too! Team Parenting
Linda Winkleman, Family and Community Development Assistant and member of
Fathers Matter Too Training Team for WADI; Rosetta Biggerstaff Co-presenter Participants
will increase their knowledge of ways to prevent and resolve team parenting problems.
Learn the ten skills for Effective Team Parenting and use Problem-Solving Checklist.
Fathers Matter Too! Considering Marriage
and Committed Relationships Bill Wood, Male Involvement Liaison and member
of Fathers Matter Too Training Team with WADI; Bill Doan Co-presenter Participants
will explore their own attitudes about marriage and other relationship commitments.
Will identify characteristics of a committee relationship that works for both the
adults and their children. Assess whether marriage or a committed relationship is
in their future.
Distance Learning Holly McCracken,
Director, CLAS Online, University of Illinois at Springfield Presentation will
include a discussion of adult learning (brief summary); degree completion options
(BA); studying via the internet, and distance learning for degree completion (academic
credit)
What IHSA Can Do For You Orientation
for New Members Marge Stillwell, Executive Director, Illinois Head Start
Association Participants will learn how the IHSA, Head Start Bureau and NHSA
maximize quality programs for children and families from low-income environments.
Information about membership, board and committee work, and how to be an advocate
for Head Start will be shared.
5:35 - 6:30 p.m.IHSA Panel to Discuss
IHSA Structure and Committees
6:15 7:45 p.m.Looking for the Silver
Bullet Rosetta Biggerstaff, Family and Community Development Coordinator,
WADI; Linda Winkleman, Family and Community Development Assistant, WADI Attendees
will identify ways to increase male involvement, understand importance of father
figure in a child's life, and increase their understanding of paternity and its importance.
Primarily for childcare providers.
Thursday,
March 6, 2003
8:30 10:00 a.m.Staff Component Meeting
Parent Component Meeting
Director's ComponentFriends Component
Meeting
10:15 11:45 a.m.Illinois Preschool
Program Anne Warff, IDHS Child Care
Considering the Child with Special Needs
When Addressing Literacy in the Preschool Classroom - Micki Ostrosky, Associate
Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Graduate Students from
SpEd 466: Toni Eckley, Amy Fields, Jihee Han, Erin Hosty, Renee McElwain Early
childhood educators are addressing literacy skills with an increased emphasis. This
session will highlight developmental skills and strategies for working on the skills
with preschoolers with disabilities and developmental delays.
Oral Health: Prevention and Treatment
Staff from Illinois Department of Public Health, Division of Oral Health
Partnerships to Meet the Health Needs of Infants and Toddlers
Infant and Toddler West Ed Training
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Fathers Matter Too! Lessons Learned
"Starting a Male Involvement Program" Rosetta Biggerstaff, Family
and Community Development Coordinator and member of Fathers Matter Too Training Team
with WADI; Bill Wood Co-presenter Attendees will be able to - identify "lessons
learned" from beginning a male involvement program understand the importance
of the father figure in children's lives identify ways to increase male involvement
in their program. (Repeat)
Fathers Matter Too! Using Support Network
Renee Lovelette, Family specialist and member of Fathers Matter Too Training
Team with WADI; Nancy Dixon Co-presenter Participants will enhance their ability
to maintain open relationships with members of their support network. Increase their
understanding of the attitudes and feelings of people who are in their network. Identify
effective ways to ask for help. Receive guidelines for balancing new and old relationships.
Directors Component Meeting continued
College Credit for Head Start Training
Teresa Gilbert, Workforce Development Administrator, Southern Seven Health
Department; Karen Moss, Professional Development Director, Southern Seven Health
Department A Head Start grantee that develops a partnership with the local
college/university that provides college credit to staff for Head Start training
received, both optional and required, without staff tuition expenses.
1:15 2:45 p.m.Mental Health Strategic
Plan for Illinois
Advocacy Session for Parents Kahree
Wahid, National Head Start Associate Government Affair Division - In this session
you will learn about steps to take to advocate on Head Start and write letters to
congress.
Health Services Network Gennie
Gilmore, Assistant Director IDHS-HSSCO; Lucy Chappee, Health Specialist, Riverbend
Head Start; Shonna Rose, Health Coordinator, East Central Head Start Participants
will be given an opportunity to share both the challenges they are facing and the
innovative strategies they are currently implementing. Participants will also have
the opportunity to dialogue with other health staff throughout the state. Information
on available health service resources will be provided.
Infant and Toddler West Ed - continued.
Fathers Matter Too! Sensitivity Toni
Stehl, Family Specialist and member of Fathers Matter Too Training Team with WADI;
Amanda Doan Co-presenter Participants will increase their knowledge of how
stereotyping is very powerful and dangerous because it can justify actions that restrict
and exclude groups of people and limit their opportunities. Learn how everyone needs
to be on board to have a successful male involvement program.
Fathers Matter Too! Domestic Violence
Nancy Dixon, Family Specialist and member of Fathers Matter Too Training
Team with WADI; Renee Lovelette Co-presenter Participants will increase their
knowledge of domestic violence, their awareness of the impact of domestic violence
on victims and children. Recognize that domestic violence is completely unacceptable.
Participants will learn of strategies and resources for dealing with domestic violence.
Regional Office Update Kathy
Penak, Head Start/Child Care Manager, ACF, DHHS, Regional V Office
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3:00 5:00 p.m.Heads Up Reading:
Discovering the Gateways to Early Literacy and Effective Ways Kathy Ward-Cameron,
Heads Up! Reading Coordinator, INCCRRA In this interactive workshop we will
discuss the five gateways to early literacy (talking, playing, reading, writing and
learning the code) and how they are integrated into early childhood curriculum and
assessment. Participants will discover how to use books in all areas of the classroom
with children age infant through five years. The content from this workshop is an
overview of the HeadsUp! Reading Program, an early literacy distance learning course
for early childhood professionals and parents.
Are Children Behaving in Ways That Challenge
You? Prevention and Intervention Strategies to Consider Micki Ostrosky,
Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Graduate Students
from SpEd 466: Letticia Alvarez, Sunny Huang, Ellie Kim, Angel Lee, Sonja Scheiger,
Young children's challenging behavior is a constant source of stress and worry
for early educators and parents alike. The presenters for this session will highlight
strategies to help prevent children from engaging in challenging behaviors and they
will discuss ways to intervene when prevention strategies are not enough.
Will Preschool Children Eat Soy Foods?-
Jan Endres, RD, Phd, Consultant and Southern Seven Head Start, Southern Illinois
University, Carbondale, Illinois; Merlene Sumner, Nutritionist, South Seven Head
Start - Substituting soy foods for traditional foods at the Southern Seven
Head Start Program showed that children liked soy foods. Only three of the 23 foods
showed differences in quantity consumed. What are the implications for treating obesity?
Infant and Toddler West Ed continued
Fathers Matter Too! Team Parenting
Linda Winkleman, Family and Community Development Assistant and member of
Fathers Matter Too Training Team for WADI; Rosetta Biggerstaff Co-presenter Participants
will increase their knowledge of ways to prevent and resolve team parenting problems.
Learn the ten skills for Effective Team Parenting and use Problem-Solving Checklist.
Fathers Matter Too! Conflict Resolution/Anger
Management Bill
Doan, Head Start/Early Head Start Parent, Chairperson of Policy Council, Fathers
Matter Advisory member, Men in Action (M.I.A.) member, and member of Fathers Matter
Too Training Team with WADI; Bill Wood Co-presenter Participants will increase
their knowledge of anger and conflict as normal aspects of relationships. Recognize
that violence as a way of expressing anger is unacceptable, is usually illegal and
has negative consequences. Identify sources of conflicts between them and other parent
of their child. Explore their own anger styles and learn how to look for clues that
will help them recognize their feelings of anger. Identify and practice ways of resolving
conflicts and managing anger without violence.
Family and Community Partnerships Round
Table Gina Ruther, Facilitator Director, DHS Head Start State Collaboration
Office The purpose of this session, facilitated by the Collaboration Office,
is for participants to share and explore successful local community collaborations
that support families, obstacles to collaboration, and family issues that need more
support. Come share and support your family services colleagues! Participants will
also develop a list of family success indicators/outcomes that can be used to publicize
the great work Illinois Early/Head Start is doing with families.
Program Governance and Policy Council
(Policy Committee) Brenda Dobbins-Noel Program Governance and Policy
Council requirement will be explained to participants using resource materials, overview
and questions and answers.
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Friday,
March 7, 2003
8:30 10:00 a.m.Early Literacy - Using Best Practices Barbara
Becker, MA, Project Manager and Director, Uptown Head Start, Chicago Uptown
Head Start staff will present the theoretical basis for the current thinking on early
literacy. The presentation will highlight the best practices that have been the hallmark
of Head Start. There will be a review of Head Start Performance Indicators addressing
early literacy, Family Literacy and Outcome Measurements. The second half of the
workshop will focus on the actual development of playful and purposeful literacy
activities for the Head Start classroom, for the home and for Interactive Parent
Child Activities known
as PACT
A Joy to be Fit Exercise and Nutrition
Workshop Stephanie Jackson-Rowe, M.S., President Head Start Parent Component
and Health Minister; Shirley Hill, Natural Food Hygienist Co-presenter Wear
your sweat suit, gym shoes, and bring a towel because this workshop promises to get
you up and moving! Parents and staff will learn some alarming facts about obesity,
how it is impacting the health of our children and families and what the Christian
Aerobics and Fitness Association is doing to fight it!
Standards, Curriculum, and Outcomes
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HIV and AIDS Among Children We Must
Stem the Tide
Azella C. Collins, MSN, RN, Administrator
Illinois Perinatal Program, Illinois Department of Public Health This presentation
will focus on HIV and AIDS infection rates from birth to age five. The presentation
will provide information of modes of transmission, fluids that transmit HIV, prevention
strategies, and resource information will be provided to all participants in a notebook.
Fathers Matter Too! Team Parenting
Linda Winkleman, Family and Community Development Assistant and member of
Fathers Matter Too Training Team for WADI; Rosetta Biggerstaff Co-presenter Participants
will increase their knowledge of ways to prevent and resolve team parenting problems.
Learn the ten skills for Effective Team Parenting and use Problem-Solving Checklist.
Fathers Matter Too! Considering Marriage
and Committed Relationships Bill Wood, Male Involvement Liaison and member
of Fathers Matter Too Training Team with WADI; Bill Doan Co-presenter Participants
will explore their own attitudes about marriage and other relationship commitments.
Will identify characteristics of a committee relationship that works for both the
adults and their children. Assess whether marriage or a committed relationship is
in their future.
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Advocacy Reauthorization Update
- Gina Guillemette, Ounce of Prevention Kids PEPP- This presentation
will provide the latest information on Head Start Reauthorization 2003 including
key issues, time lines, and advocacy efforts needed.
Meeting the Challenges of Driver and
Monitor Training
Kay Strand, Administrative and Support
Services Manager, City of Rockford Head Start; Ruth Ann Ramey, Facilities and Transportation
Director, Southern Seven Health Dept/Head Start - Session will address the challenges
to compliance with Final Rule 45CFR 1310 and will provide suggestions and examples
of training for drivers and monitors that will result in a high level of safety for
children.
10:15 11:45 a.m.An Introduction For
Staff to Mentoring in Collaboration Sites - Dorene L. Ewell, Childcare/Classroom
Training Specialists, WADI Head Start/Early Head Start - When successful, mentoring
is a growing and learning process for both the mentor and the protégé.
There are differences between working with the Head Start staff and Collaboration
staff.
Emotional Energy Cheravon West,
Prevention Partnership, Chicago; Shela West Co-presenter In this skills workshop
we will experiment with energy and learn how to use our energy to help us live healthier
and more prosperous lives.
Technology
Early Head Start and Parents as Teachers:
A Collaboration Maurine Brennan, Early Education Coordinator, Academic Development
Institute Discussion of the use of Parents as Teachers model in an Early Head
Start home-based setting. Learn about Parents as Teachers home visits, benefits of
the curriculum, developmental screening and assessment. View kits used in the Early
Head Start Parents as Teachers collaboration.
Father Come Back To Your Child Stephennie
Segrest-Stuckey, Chair, Illinois Family Partnership Network (IFPN), Chicago; Robert
Augusto, IFPN Father Come Back To Your Child; Jeffrey Scott, CEDA Head Start, 2002
National Father of The Year IFPN and CEDA parent leaders will share the success
of parent involvement and transitioning a Head Start father's success story, topic
discussion and video presentation, brainstorming activities and much, much more!
Children Exposed to Domestic Violence
and Substance Abuse Denise McCaffrey, Prevention Resource Developer, Springfield
Region, Prevent Child Abuse Illinois This presentation will look at the developmental
impact on children who are exposed to violence and/or substance abuse by caretakers
in the home. We will also explore the connections between and how these different
service systems are working to improve collaboration.
Collaboration with Head Start: The State
of the State Gina Ruther, Director, DHS Head Start State Collaboration Office
This session will provide participants with information regarding various collaborative
efforts between Head Start and state entities in Illinois, as well as updates on
statewide early childhood system building efforts.
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