Description
Designed for all professionals working with parents and families of young children, this practical guide offers comprehensive resources for building trauma-responsive family engagement in your school or program. Throughout this book, you'll find:
- Evidence-based practices that promote trauma-response family engagement.
- Exercises and tools for identifying the strengths and learning edges within your program, school, or agency.
- Vignettes from people and programs striving to create trusting, asset-focused partnerships with families that improve equity and promote culturally responsive practices.
- Reflective inquiry questions and sample conversations to help you examine your own practices.
With concrete examples and easy-to-implement strategies, this critical book helps readers put theory into practice while providing essential support for individuals and groups both new to and experienced with trauma-responsive practices in early childhood.
Author: Julie Nicholson, Julie Kurtz
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 09/15/2021
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d
ISBN13: 9780367647018
ISBN10: 036764701X
BISAC Categories:
- Education | Schools | Levels | Early Childhood (Incl. Preschool & Kinder
- Education | Parent Participation
About the Author
Julie Nicholson is Professor of Practice in the School of Education at Mills College and Co-Director of the Center for Equity in Early Childhood Education.
Julie Kurtz is CEO at the Center for Optimal Brain Integration(R) and trains on social-emotional and trauma-responsive practices across the lifespan. She also operates a private practice as a licensed marriage and family therapist in California, USA.
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