The Growing Brain From Birth to 5 Years

Course overview

This innovative training curriculum focuses on evidence-informed knowledge and strategies with which to prepare professionals who work with infants and young children for their vital role in building healthy brains. The curriculum fills a unique niche by providing a comprehensive understanding of how the brain develops, along with ways the professional can encourage healthy brain development in children from birth to 5 years old. Participants will learn skills and strategies for understanding and supporting: *Brain development (architecture and neurobiology) to inform their practice with infants, young children & their families; *Language, cognition, prosocial behavior, and social-emotional development birth to five; and *Reducing toxic stress that can negatively influence brain development of young children.