This e-module provides participants with evidence-based information to support young children’s resilience and recovery. It focuses on trauma, how it impacts child development, and how to best support children through sensitive interactions and interventions. This e-module will help identify strategies for providing trauma-specific support to family and child care workers and educators.

Certificates of participation will be provided to those who complete the course. Time to complete: 57:52.

This course is FREE for Families Canada members all year round. Log into your member portal at familiescanada.ca to get your 100% discount code or to renew or sign up for membership. Email membership@familiescanada.ca for support.

Recommended participants:

-Service providers working with families with young children and/or young children directly

-Family support workers

-Early Childhood Educators

-Families Canada Members

Speaker:

Dr. Delphine Collin-Vézina is the Director of the Centre for Research on Children and Families at McGill University, a licensed clinical psychologist, and a Full Professor at the McGill School of Social Work. She is also an Associate Member in the Department of Pediatrics where she holds the Nicolas Steinmetz and Gilles Julien Chair in Community Social Pediatrics. She is the Director of the Canadian Consortium on Child & Youth Trauma that regroups 110 researchers, practitioners, policy-makers and governmental representatives to better understand the impact of adverse and traumatic life events in the lives of children and youth, as well as their experiences with services geared towards them.

Early Childhood Development in a Time of Pandemic Webinar Series:

Families Canada and the Centre of Excellence for Early Childhood Development offered an 'Early Childhood Development in a Time of Pandemic' webinar series in response to the evolving COVID-19 pandemic. This webinar series is now being offered as an e-module course series, focusing on providing evidence-based information to support young children’s resilience and recovery.