From: White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics <ed.gov@public.govdelivery.com>
Date: Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 1:44 PM
Subject: Webinar: Birth to 5: Watch Me Thrive!, Monday, August 11 at 3pm EDT
To: iammejtm@gmail.com
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Please join the White House Initiatives for a webinar on Birth to 5: Watch Me Thrive! on Monday, August 11, 2014, from 3:00-4:00 pm EDT
The Departments of Health and Human Services and Education have partnered to launch Birth to 5: Watch Me Thrive!, a coordinated effort to encourage developmental and behavioral screening and support for children, families, and the providers who care for them. Birth to Five: Watch Me Thrive! will bring communities together around four core missions:
The Birth To Five: Watch Me Thrive! Initiative offers three resources in Spanish. These provider guides were made available yesterday and are not yet posted on the initiative's website so they are an exclusive release for this group! The provider guides can be found on the Birth to Five: Watch Me Thrive! website in English. The Spanish guides are attached for your convenience.
The resources are:
- A Home Visitor's Guide for Developmental and Behavioral Screening - An Early Care and Education Provider's Guide for Developmental and Behavioral Screening - Birth To Five: Watch Me Thrive! One Pager
The "Learn the Signs. Act Early" program has a wealth of research based resources designed to promote awareness of healthy developmental milestones in early childhood, the importance of tracking each child's development and the importance of acting early if there are concerns. Once on the website, click on "Milestones" and you will see a suite of materials, such as Milestone Moments Booklets, developmental milestone checklists, etc. The materials are free and can be customized for communities and programs to put their own contact information on them. All of the materials are available in English, Spanish, and a few other languages as well.
You will have an opportunity to ask questions and to provide feedback so that we can make this a stronger screening initiative for all young children and their families.
Guest Speakers:
Katherine A. Beckmann, PhD, MPH Senior Policy Advisor for Early Childhood Health and Development Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary and Interdepartmental Liaison for Early Childhood Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Tracie Bullock Dickson, Ph.D. Education Program Specialist Research to Practice Division Office of Special Education Programs, U.S. Department of Education
Camille Smith, M.S.,Ed.S. National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The webinar will be conducted via Abode Connect and telephone. To join online via Adobe Connect: ------------------------------------------------------- 1. Go to http://tadnet.adobeconnect.com/osep/ ------------------------------------------------------- To join the audio portion: Call-in number: 877-512-6886 Conference ID: 8613019655
Space is limited. To RSVP for the webinar, please email whieeh@ed.gov with the subject line, "Birth To Five". In addition, we will send a Screening Passport in Spanish that families can use to keep track of developmental milestones and screening results.
Please feel free to share this invitation with your networks. We hope you will join us on Monday, August 11!
- The White House Initiatives
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