The following trainings are regularly provided by Let’s Grow Together to those working in the Northwest area of Cork City.
Further details regarding the trainings below along with information about additional training opportunities are announced through our social media channels.
Learning Language and Loving It- The Hanen Program®
The Learning Language and Loving It Program was designed to provide early childhood educators with practical, research-based strategies for helping all children in the classroom build language and social skills, no matter what their learning and communication styles are.
- Promoting every child’s language development using natural everyday activities, routines and play
- Becoming attuned to children’s interests so you can follow their lead, which is known to foster language development
- Adjusting the way you talk to help children develop more advanced language skills
- Promoting interaction among the children themselves
- Facilitating language-learning in pretend play
- Fostering emergent literacy skills
Newborn Behavioural Observation Training
This training allows the practitioner to support positive parent-baby interactions & relationships by helping parents to observe how their newborn baby is developing and communicating.
Practitioners will become certified to use the Newborn Behaviours Observation tool for babies up to 3 months old.
Community Infant Mental Health Training
This training is the first step into the world of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health for those work work in our community. It allows people from a variety of backgrounds, including Gardaí, teachers, Public Health Nurses, Speech and Language therapists and others, to come together and learn about the early relationships that babies and young children experience.
The training covers areas including: brain development, attachment, emotional regulation, reflection and how to implement changes in our interactions to support positive outcomes for babies and families.
Expressions of interest for this training can be sent to info@letsgrowtogether.ie or call us on 0216010656
Peep LTP Facilitator Training
The Peep Learning Together Programme helps to build strong parent-child relationships by increasing parental knowledge and confidence around supporting their child’s learning and play in day-to-day life.
The programme contributes to children’s social and emotional development; communication and language skills, early literacy and maths skills; and healthy physical development.
- engage and support parents to build on what they already do to enhance their child’s early learning and development – through talking and playing as part of everyday life
- explore practical ideas, strategies and resources to meet local needs – one-to-one, groups, drop-ins, indoors, outdoors or virtual sessions
Togetherness Training
Participants learn about:
- Early social and emotional development
- The effects that early caregiving relationships and experiences have on brain development
- Attachment, emotional regulation, and reflective capacity
- The impacts of stress and adverse childhood experiences
- Observation skills to use when working with families
- Reflective practise skills
