This course is a follow-up to ECE 125 Introduction to the Kentucky Strengthening Families Initiative. You must complete that course before beginning this one.
This course will allow you to focus on implementing the Protective Factor of Nurturing and Attachment within your classroom or childcare center.
Our vision for families:
Families respond to their child with warmth and consistently build a strong and secure attachment.
Families help their child to trust that their environments are safe.
Families recognize and embrace their child’s strengths and individuality.
Families teach their child how to form and keep healthy relationships with others.
Families with strong nurturing and attachment give their children the best chance of developing into teens and adults who are happy, healthy and possess individual-level protective factors, such as relational, self-regulation and problem solving skills.
This course will involve personal reflection, gathering feedback, intentional family interactions and will provide resources.
Emily Keely
Lead Facilitator emily.keely@ky.gov
Kristen Martin
State Supervisor kristen.martin@ky.gov
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Course Objectives
1. Gain an understanding of
2. Connect the Nurturing and Attachment Protective Factor to the six Guiding Premises.
This course is a follow-up to ECE 125 Introduction to the Kentucky Strengthening Families Initiative. You must complete that course before beginning this one.
This course will allow you to focus on implementing the Protective Factor of Social and Emotional Competence within your classroom or childcare center.
Our vision for families:
Families encourage and reinforce their child’s positive social skills and set limits in a positive way.
Families help their children manage and communicate their feelings.
Families teach and encourage their child to solve problems in age-appropriate ways.
Families provide regular routines for young children.
Families with strong social and emotional competence interact with their children in ways that help children develop the ability to recognize, communicate and regulate their emotions.
This course will involve personal reflection, gathering feedback, intentional family interactions and will provide resources.
Emily Keely
Lead Facilitator emily.keely@ky.gov
Kristen Martin
State Supervisor kristen.martin@ky.gov
If you encounter technical issues with the site, please use the “Contact Us” button at the bottom of the page.
Course Objectives
1. Help families develop social and emotional competence.
2. Connect the Social and Emotional Competence Protective Factor to the six Guiding Premises.
This course is a follow-up to ECE 125 Introduction to the Kentucky Strengthening Families Initiative. You must complete that course before beginning this one.
This course will allow you to focus on implementing the Protective Factor of Concrete Supports in Times of Need within your classroom or childcare center.
Our vision for families:
Families have the resources to meet their basic needs.
Families feel safe in their community.
Families know how to have information and connections to services in their community.
Families feel supported and valued when reaching out for help.
Families with strong concrete supports know how to access resources that address a family’s basic needs, which helps to minimize stress caused by challenges.
This course will involve personal reflection, gathering feedback, intentional family interactions and will provide resources.
Emily Keely
Lead Facilitator emily.keely@ky.gov
Kristen Martin
State Supervisor kristen.martin@ky.gov
If you encounter technical issues with the site, please use the “Contact Us” button at the bottom of the page.
Course Objectives
1. Help families develop concrete supports for times of need
2. Connect the Concrete Supports in Times of Need Protective Factor to the six Guiding Premises.
This course is a follow-up to ECE 125 Introduction to the Kentucky Strengthening Families Initiative. You must complete that course before beginning this one.
This course will allow you to focus on implementing the Protective Factor of Knowledge of Child Development within your classroom or childcare center.
Our vision for families is to:
Identify realistic expectations for their child’s development.
Possess a commitment to lifelong learning.
Practice positive discipline techniques to effectively manage their child’s behavior.
Recognize and respond appropriately to their child’s specific developmental needs.
Families with knowledge of child development understand child development and parenting strategies that advance physical, cognitive, language, social and emotional development.
This course will involve personal reflection, gathering feedback, intentional family interactions and will provide resources.
Emily Keely
Lead Facilitator emily.keely@ky.gov
Kristen Martin
State Supervisor kristen.martin@ky.gov
If you encounter technical issues with the site, please use the “Contact Us” button at the bottom of the page.
Course Objectives
1. Help families increase their knowledge of Child Development
2. Connect the Knowledge of Child Development Protective Factor to the six Guiding Premises.
This course will allow you to focus on implementing the Protective Factor of Social Connections within any setting that serves young children and their families.
When people experience positive social connections, they:
Maintain multiple friendships and supportive relationships with others.
Primary caregivers feel respected and appreciated in their roles.
Accept help and give help to others.
Establish connections and a sense of belonging with other families.
Families who have positive social connections seek timely assistance from people they have learned to “count on” and are empowered to give back through satisfying, mutually beneficial relationships. Supportive social connections help buffer families from stressors and support nurturing parenting skills that promote secure attachments in young children.
Course Details
Target Audience
All Staff
Learning Environment
Infant Toddler Preschool School Age
Training Level
2
Core Content Subject Area
Family and Community Partnerships
Core Content Competency
Demonstrate awareness of individual families relative to differences in family strengths, structure, lifestyle, expectations, values, religions, customs, traditions, childrearing practices and language.
This course is for professionals who provide supported employment services in Kentucky. It is presented by the Kentucky Supported Employment Training Project at the University of Kentucky’s Human Development Institute.
Instructions
Organization: This course is divided into lessons and topics. Each topic must be completed in order to move to the next lesson. You can view an outline of the Lessons on each screen.
Embedded Videos: Throughout the course, there are videos from various YouTube channels. Many of these videos must be viewed in their entirety before moving on to the next topic. Usually, this means waiting until the related videos pop up at the end, after the credits. If you encounter a problem with a video, please use the “Contact Us” button below and include the name of the course, topic, and video that you are having trouble with.
Lessons: Once you’ve finished the lesson remember to select “Mark Complete” to measure your completion of the course. To continue to the next topic/lesson please click on the link at the bottom of the page that says “next lesson” or “next topic.”
Think Spot: These are scattered through the course to offer you time to think about how the information applies to your work. You must enter responses and will automatically receive credit for your answer. The instructor will read all responses entered and may respond to you directly.
Quiz: There will be a graded quiz to check your understanding of the topics covered. Quizzes are complete when 80% of the questions are answered correctly. You may take the final quiz multiple times until 80% is received. You are welcome to use the resources provided in the Drobox.
If you have questions about moving through this online course, please use the Contact Us button below.
Learning Objective: The learner will get a better understanding of financial literacy, how cash flows through their organization and the importance of maintaining an operating surplus.
Course Significance: Every senior center director or senior nutrition program manager has felt the pressure of not having enough money to do what they think needs to be done. They often feel helpless, or powerless, not knowing how to make things better. That helpless feeling is almost always a result of not knowing what to do or how to make things better. This series of courses will help address that feeling of helplessness. It is designed to give you additional knowledge about your organization’s finances, new skills to help you manage those finances, and change your perspectives and attitudes about finances. With improved knowledge, skills and attitudes, we can change our behaviors and those of the people we work with in order to make sound financial decisions for our organizations.
This training course is designed to provide new guardianship staff with a basic understanding of the court process and required forms.
The guardianship court process is required by law and takes place in District Courts in each county across the state. These proceedings are required in order to determine an individual’s level of disability if any, and, if necessary, appoint an agency or individual to serve as guardian or conservator.
This course will review the court process required to determine the level of guardianship including:
Court forms
Legal representation individuals are entitled to
What happens in a hearing
What it means to be adjudicated disabled
What role State Guardianship will have
Course Length: This course will take approximately 1 hour to complete.
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DAIL is the interpreting authority for the statutes and regulations that govern the Guardianship Program. Throughout this course we will highlight and review important sections of the KRS and provide information pertinent to your role as a Guardian.
This training is designed to present a broad overview of KY statutes and regulations that govern the Adult Guardianship Program.
Course Length: This course will take approximately 2.5 hours to complete.
There are some situations where due to the effects of aging, disease, or injury, people need help managing some of or all of their daily affairs.
Guardianship provides a way to offer that support needed. Guardianship is established by a court of law between the person who needs help (also referred to as a “ward”) and the person or entity (also referred to as a “guardian”) named by the court to help the individual under guardianship.
This training course is designed to provide new guardianship staff with an introduction and broad overview of the Kentucky Guardianship Program.
Course Length: This course will take approximately 1 hour to complete.
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Welcome to ECE 133 Bright Futures: Engaging and Encouraging Families of Children with Disabilities
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Course Goal and Objectives:
Course Goal:The goal of this course is to promote the vision that every child can grow up to work and share their talents and skills with the world if given the proper support, including children with disabilities and this begins in the early years.
Learning Outcome:Learners will be able to summarize and retrieve information and develop a list of resources and activities for families of children with disabilities that promotes the vision that future work is possible.
Workplace Outcome:Participants will return to the workplace and be able to: (a) identify and share appropriate resources and information with families of children with disabilities for advocacy, benefits, referrals, and rights and (b) develop and use activities to discover children’s uniqueness. interests, and skills in the community, classroom, home, and program that assist in creating an environment that promotes the work expectation of work and where families are partners.
Course Overview
This course is for early care and education professionals working with children and families up to 5 years of age and will take approximately 2 (two) hours to complete. The aim is to promote the vision that every child is constantly learning and can explore their interests at their own pace if given the proper support, including children with disabilities. Ultimately, this exploration of interests can evolve into hobbies or activities that eventually become potential career paths. Encouraging children to explore careers is essential because people with disabilities have historically faced low employment rates. Therefore, helping children identify those interests early on can help them develop the expectation, motivation, and skills to work as valued community members in the future.
This course will also assist you in deepening your understanding of your role in creating a respectful, supportive, and collaborative partnership with families in your program. We will emphasize that creating an integrated approach to family engagement is crucial to the child’s success. Throughout the course, you will discover various ways to develop and encourage a program and family partnership.
These components will assist you in gaining a deeper knowledge and understanding of ways to support family engagement for families of children with disabilities in your program.
The course contains multiple lessons; each lesson will include mini topics, each lesson/topic must be complete before moving forward. Please click “mark complete” at the bottom of the page to access the next lesson/topic. Lessons may include a quiz or reflection activity (Think Spot), click “start quiz” to access quiz content. Once you have completed the quiz click “finish quiz”. Once submitted you will see “click here to continue”. If this doesn’t appear, please click restart quiz and try again.
Once all five lessons and sub-topics are complete, you will need to finish the Course Wrap-Up to receive your certificate. Credit will be issued in ECE-TRIS with a valid account within ten days of course completion. For a downloadable copy of these instructions, please return to the top of the page and click navigation.
If you haven’t already downloaded the learning journal, please do so now. The guided learning journal provides an opportunity for you to reflect further on what you have learned and how you can implement it into your classroom or program. This journal can be printed or completed as a fillable pdf. You can locate it at the beginning of this section. Please complete it as you move through the course.
Upon completion of the course, you will be provided with a downloadable list of resources provided throughout the course.
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Welcome to the Department for Aging and Independent Living!
We are excited that you have joined our dynamic team made up of individuals who are passionate and motivated to make a difference in the lives of others.
New Employee Orientation 1 is designed to provide an overview of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services (CHFS), basic CHFS personnel information, and basic policies and procedures.
All new employees are required to attend the CHFS new hire training, conducted by the Office of Human Resource Management.
Course Length: New Employee Orientation Part 1 will take approximately 1 hour to complete.
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Welcome to the Senior Center Community College This interactive education experience is YOUR place to learn time-honored fundamentals and new skills/subjects that will help you to make your senior center(s) high performing. There are a wide array of courses from which you may choose. We hope that you will choose them all. You can take these courses in any order that you’d like and at the completion of each course you will receive a digital certificate of completion.
