Connected Beginnings Training Institute

Nurturing the Social and Emotional Well-Being of Children Ages Birth to Five

  • For optimal development "a child requires progressively more complex joint activity with one or more adults who have an irrational emotional relationship with the child. Somebody’s got to be crazy about that kid. That’s number one. First, last, and always." – Urie Bronfrenbrener

    Urie Bronfrenbrener

  • “Including parents in the screening process tells parents from the start that you value their observations, questions and concerns. And the cliché is true-parents in most cases are the best source of reliable and valid information about a child’s development.” – Elizabeth Twombley  

    Elizabeth Twombley

  • “Through relationships with parents and other significant caregivers, infants and toddlers learn what people expect of them and what they can expect of other people. Infants and toddlers learn through what they experience within relationships and what they observe in adults’ interactions with one another.” — Pathways to Prevention

    Pathways to Prevention

  • “What’s critical then is the interaction between genetics and what we call ‘serve and return’ between young children and the adults in their lives. The child does something and the adult responds. It’s the back and forth that literally, shapes the architecture of the brain.” — Jack Shonkoff

    Jack Shonkoff

  • “Children are not the people of tomorrow but the people of today. They have a right to be taken seriously and to be treated with tenderness and respect. They should be allowed to grow into whoever they were meant to be-the unknown person inside each of them is our hope for the future.” – Janusz Korczak

    Janusz Korczak

Latest News

Please join us for the Worcester Regional Pyramid Model Learning Community Meeting

Announcing Registration for:
The Worcester Regional Pyramid Model Learning Community Meeting
Focus on: Using Routine-Based Opportunities to Practice New Skills

Routines that occur within natural environments for young children provide the most effective framework to support and sustain intervention activities. When a child is familiar with routines, caregivers can focus on scaffolding new and more complex learning based on those experiences. Please join us for a discussion on routine -based interventions.

MA Pyramid Model’s New Website: Take a tour and see how you can be a featured program

Region Training Opportunities: Free Pyramid Positive Solution Facilitator training coming soon!

Quinsigamond Community College
Administration Building Room B03A
670 West Boylston St.
Worcester, MA 01606

Date: 6/6/17

Time: 10:00-Noon

Click here to register for Worcester: https://connectedbeginnings.tfaforms.net/167

To access meeting room: enter from the back of the Administration building by the rotary door, you will need to go down one flight (stairway is to your right), conference room is at the bottom of the stairs on your left.

Cost: There is no cost to participants; the Pyramid Model Learning Community is supported by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.

New to the Pyramid Model?
Before attending the Pyramid Model Learning Community, we encourage you to view this brief Introduction to the Pyramid Model Approach http://challengingbehavior.fmhi.usf.edu/explore/camtasia/pyramid_overview/pyramid_overview_captions.html

You’re Invited: Third Annual Conference Inspired by the Hawkins Education Philosophy

Join us on Saturday, October 28, 2017 for Wheelock College’s annual conference of hands-on experiences, inspired by the education philosophy of David and Frances Hawkins, offering enriching professional development to educators from schools at all age levels, museums, and family child care providers.

This conference provides an opportunity to practice many ways to nurture curiosity and wonder in ourselves and our students. It features hands-on activity stations where you can experiment with provocations and recycled materials and informally engage with Wheelock faculty from science, math, art, and education as well as colleagues from area museums and education groups.

For more information, and to register, please visit the event page: http://www.wheelock.edu/curiosityconference.

Foundations of the Pyramid Model Training Is Coming to Springfield!

This 6 session course combines instruction on theory, specific implementation strategies and the use of reflection to support social-emotional development and address challenging behavior in young children, ages birth through 6 years. Based upon the Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning (CSEFEL) Modules for early education and care this course is designed for teachers, mental health consultants, program supervisors and administrators.

When:
Session 1: 08/22/2017 6:00-8:00pm
Session 2: 08/29/2017 6:00-8:00pm
Session 3: 09/05/2017 6:00-8:00pm
Session 4: 09/12/2017 6:00-8:00pm
Session 5: 09/19/2017 6:00-8:00pm
Session 6: 09/26/2017 6:00-8:00pm

Where:
Bethel Child Care Services
Taylor St Suite 203
Springfield, MA 01103

Cost: This training is offered at no cost to participants, through the generosity of The LAUNCH Expansion grant from SAMHSA.

Register by clicking HERE

Past News

About Connected Beginnings

A project of Wheelock College’s ASPIRE Institute since July 2011, Connected Beginnings Training Institute (CBTI) was launched by the United Way of Massachusetts Bay/Merrimack Valley, Inc. (UWMB) in 2006 to build the capacity of infant and early … Read More