This course employs an interactive resource to educate clinicians on how to give a postnatal diagnosis of Down syndrome, using two simulated sessions with a patient and her husband. The course illustrates how to use best practice guidelines in informing the parents; how to provide up-to-date, scientifically accurate, and balanced resources to patients and their families; and how to address concerns about life possibilities, related health conditions, early intervention, and informing relatives and siblings. The course also addresses the uses and limits of screening tests, the likelihood of recurrence, and breastfeeding an infant with Down syndrome. The course includes no-cost downloadable resources, accessible for practitioners and families and available in multiple languages, in understanding screening and testing options, a Down syndrome diagnosis, breastfeeding an infant with Down syndrome, and in welcoming a newborn with Down syndrome into the patient’s family.
Throughout this course, you will find
ℹ️ Information Points:
Embedded videos: you must completely watch the video before proceeding with the course.
Decision Point: these are opportunities to reflect on the information you have just learned or to identify what you would do or say next.
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This course employs Brighter Tomorrows, an interactive resource to educate clinicians on how to give a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome, using two simulated sessions with a high-risk patient and her husband. The course illustrates how to use best practice guidelines in explaining the uses and limits of screening tests; the options of confirming a diagnosis through amniocentesis or chorionic villus sampling and associated procedural risks; how to provide the actual diagnosis; how to provide up-to-date, medically approved, and balanced resources to patients about the meaning of Down syndrome, common health concerns, and what life is like for individuals with Down syndrome and their families, as well as a description of pregnancy management resources, including adoption. The course includes no-cost downloadable resources, accessible for practitioners and families, and available in multiple languages, on both understanding a Down syndrome diagnosis, and understanding screening and testing options.
In this course, we meet a 40-year-old mother who has not had a child previously. The diagnosis is in utero.
Throughout this course, you will find
ℹ️ Information Points:
Embedded videos: you must completely watch the video before proceeding with the course.
Decision Point: these are opportunities to reflect on the information you have just learned or to identify what you would do or say next.
This training will be available for registration until 2/29/2024. All course components must be completed by 3/31/2024.
FET 310: Beyond Fundamentals: Putting FET to Work (2nd Edition, 7 hours)
Putting FET to Work is an online learning experience that helps you design a training plan on a topic of your choosing. Upon completion, you will have a new, custom training session that you can begin training on immediately.
Important Information!
This course requires satisfactory completion of an application activity prior to course being fully complete. All application activities can take up to 3 business days to review. The completion date for the course is the date that the application activity and all course lessons are satisfactorily completed. Once completed satisfactorily you will have the ability to print a certificate with the completion date and credit will be entered into ECE-TRIS within 10 calendar days.
If you are approaching your credential expiration, it is recommended to have all coursework completed and submitted with your renewal application 30 days prior to your expiration. This allows ample time for course feedback and resubmissions of assignments is necessary. Please reach out to the course facilitator if you have any questions.
Family Interaction Training (FIT) Training is a set of three modules (ECE 104, 105, & 106) based on an evidence-based Centers for Disease Control (CDC) course. These courses provide information to help early care and education providers learn Key Concepts and Strategies of FIT. The modules and videos provide an overview of how to work with families on each of the strategies and how to apply these principles to your own early care and education setting. The goal of FIT is to share evidence-based practice that promotes positive behaviors in young children.
Module Objectives
Describe how logical consequences can address problem behaviors.
List the steps for the removal of privileges.
Keep in mind that working with any young child-whether an infant, a toddler, or a preschooler, requires empathy. Babies cry to communicate. Toddlers are impulsive. Preschoolers are learning to self-regulate, too. They need their caretakers and families to be empathetic. Try to understand what it is like to be little and to have big feelings. It is hard to put words on those feelings. Some children might have developmental delays affecting their ability to use words instead of expressing frustration with tantrums or other challenging behaviors.
Just like children need to self-regulate, the adults in their lives also need to self-regulate. When a child is “pushing your buttons”, take a breath. Responding with anger or roughness will only make the situation worse. You need to be a calm and steady influence to help the child feel safe. You can do so by acknowledging the child’s feelings. Next, tell them the rules for how to act when feeling that way. Be a safe space for them. Reconnect to the child after they calm down so the child knows that you are still there for them.
In Module 3, you will learn more about managing misbehaviors. All young children are learning appropriate behaviors. This is a normal part of their development. Patience with young learners is key! The lessons you learn in this module can be used in your classroom or family childcare home. You will also be able to share these same lessons to engage your families with good strategies they can use at home. Misbehavior is an adult perception of a child’s behavior. The child may be acting in a challenging way for a variety of reasons.
Family Interaction Training (FIT) Training is a set of three modules (ECE 104, 105, & 106) based on an evidence-based Centers for Disease Control (CDC) course. These courses provideinformation to help early care and education providers learn Key Concepts and Strategies of FIT. The modules and videos provide an overview of how to work with families on each of the strategies and how to apply these principles to your own early care and education setting. The goal of FIT is to share evidence-based practice that promotes positive behaviors in young children.
Module Objectives
By the end of this module, participants will be able to
describe the importance of establishing routines and rules
establish routines and rules in a classroom setting
use transitions and redirections to prevent misbehaviors
Let’s start by reviewing the key concepts for this module below. These concepts may be familiar to you, but reviewing them helps to reinforce how they fit into the goal of understanding behavior. The more you know about behavior, the better prepared you are to help families. In this course, you will also be using specific strategies to help structure the environment to make expectations clear, promote consistency and predictability, and help prevent misbehavior.
You can help children better manage behaviors and get along with others.
You can help children manage their behavior with clear and consistent schedules, routines, rules, and directions.
Intervening before behavior problems start can prevent misbehavior.
Strategies focusing on helping children manage feelings can prevent misbehavior.
Family Interaction Training (FIT) Training is a set of three modules (ECE 104, 105, & 106) based on an evidence-based Centers for Disease Control (CDC) course. These courses provide information to help early care and education providers learn Key Concepts and Strategies of FIT. The modules and videos provide an overview of how to work with families on each of the strategies and how to apply these principles to your own early care and education setting. The goal of FIT is to share evidence-based practice that promotes positive behaviors in young children.
Module Objectives
By the end of this module, participants will be able to:
Learn and practice communication skills that promote positive behaviors
Use praise effectively
Use attention strategically to shape positive behaviors
Make playtime effective for learning
Access resources for developmental monitoring that will assist families and providers
This course provides information to help early care and education providers learn Key Concepts and Strategies of Family Interaction Training (FIT). The modules and videos provide an overview of how to work with families on each of the strategies and how to apply these principles to your own early care and education setting. The goal of FIT is to share evidence-based practice that promotes positive behaviors in young children. This first module includes four lessons: Communication, Praise, Using Attention Strategically, Scheduled Parent-Child Playtime.
FET 345: Beyond Fundamentals – Tech for Trainers: Polling and Assessment
In this online course, trainers will learn the importance of polling and assessment and will get a brief introduction to several types of polling and assessment tools that can be used in training sessions.
Important Information!
This course requires satisfactory completion of an application activity prior to course being fully complete. All application activities can take up to 3 business days to review. This course is not considered complete until all required lessons are complete and your application activity has been satisfactorily completed. Once all components have been completed, you will have the ability to print a certificate of completion and credit will be entered into ECE-TRIS within 10 calendar days.
If you are approaching your credential expiration, it is recommended to have all coursework completed and submitted with your renewal application 30 days prior to your expiration. This allows ample time for course feedback and resubmissions of assignments is necessary. Please reach out to the course facilitator if you have any questions.
ADA Paratransit an available service when a city’s fixed-route transit system does not meet the needs of an individual with a disability. ADA Paratransit is important for individuals with disabilities to fully participate in the community. As a result of the completion of this module, you will understand how to access ADA Paratransit for yourself or an individual you support.
Course will take approximately 2 (two) hours to complete
No clock hours awarded upon completion (ECE or how to train other adult)
Audience: Trainers
Course Description
More and more often online training sessions are being requested and offered virtually. Virtual training sessions can be a great resource for both employers and employees in obtaining early childhood clock hours. Virtual learning has developed and evolved over the years, and there are many unique and engaging ways to offer credit for an online training session that go beyond watching a video and reading questions. This session will help identify different ways content can be presented, how to award credit, help the participant understand some basic principles for virtual training sessions, and review regulatory requirements for virtual learning.
This course satisfies the Division of Child Care (DCC) regulatory requirement for cabinet approved online training development course for credentialed trainers who will be conducting online training or webinars.
In order to satisfactorily complete the session all content must be completed, and a final assignment must be submitted and reviewed for accuracy. Upon successful completion of all components your ECE-TRIS record will be updated to confirm completion, however no clock hour credit will be awarded.
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Training Outcomes
By the end of this session participants will be able to:
Recall key terms related to online training.
Compare ways to organize online training content.
Learn what accessibility is and how to make online trainings accessible.
Describe how to calculate and award credit hours.
Identify ways to deliver training content in an online setting.
Learn ways to incorporate quality assurance into online training design.
Workplace Outcomes
Participants will return to the workplace with an understanding of how to organize and create content in an online setting. They will be able to create a training outline and identify different methods for presentation of content.
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Important Information!
This course requires satisfactory completion of an application activity prior to course being fully complete. All application activities can take up to 3 business days to review. This course is not considered complete until all required lessons are complete and your application activity has been satisfactorily completed. Once all components have been completed, you will have the ability to print a certificate of completion and credit will be entered into ECE-TRIS within 10 calendar days.
If you are approaching your credential expiration, it is recommended to have all coursework completed and submitted with your renewal application 30 days prior to your expiration. This allows ample time for course feedback and resubmissions of assignments is necessary. Please reach out to the course facilitator if you have any questions.
This 2-hour course will introduce you to the general characteristics of children with a visual impairment, and describe how you can include children with a visual impairment in your early care and education setting.
This training is an overview of how earned income may affect Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) or Supplemental Security Income (SSI) payments and eligibility for Medicare or Medicaid.
This training will be retiring and will no longer be available for purchase after May 17, 2024. If you are currently enrolled in the course, all components must be completed by May 31, 2024, for credit to be issued.
Target Audience: Kentucky Credentialed Trainers
Credit Hours: 3 hours Adult Learning/How to Train Other Adults
This course requires completion of an application activity in order to successfully complete the course and receive credit.
Course Welcome and Introduction
Audio Transcript
Greetings! My name is Patti Singleton and I am the Professional Development Coordinator at the Human Development Institute. This course was first developed in 2007 for the Trainer’s Institute and has been presented and modified several times. This latest modification is for the Beyond Fundamentals – Tech for Trainers series.
In this course, you will explore several functions of PowerPoint. Some of them you may already know, others might be a refresher. We hope that you learn a few additional that you can use to either edit an existing or create a new PowerPoint presentation.
In this course there is an application activity. The application activity is used to assess your understanding of the features in PowerPoint. You must submit a PowerPoint to receive credit for this course.
In the course handout, there is much more information than what will be covered online. I hope you will keep the handout as a reference.
I hope you enjoy this online course and please don’t hesitate to contact us with any questions!
You will be provided opportunities to practice the skills throughout the course.
You may find that you need to start and stop the course. You are not expected to complete the course in one sitting. Please also feel free to reach out to the course facilitator if you have any questions about the content or application activity.
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An in-depth course handout is also provided with more information than is presented online. Print or download a copy of the handout for future reference. There will also be several opportunities for reflection, using your handout, throughout the course.
When you see this icon, please note that important regulatory information will be provided. Read each regulatory item thoroughly before proceeding. 
