NEW DATE: Fussy Baby (FAN) is Back 

Developed in 2003 by Linda Gilkerson, the Fussy Baby Network was designed to address concerns of Chicago area parents who were unable to soothe their infants. Since then, the network has helped families across the United States and the Globe. Fussy Baby offers a "No judgement, just help", approach with services including a 'warmline' phone call, home visits, and parent groups. The Fussy Baby Network applies the FAN model, which was developed by Linda Gilkerson and colleagues at the Fussy Baby Network, (within Erikson Institute), and is explained below. 

The FAN is a conceptual model and practical tool for family engagement and reflective practice that will help practitioners:
• Improve their ability to read parents’ cues and respond with interventions that match what parents most need moment-to-moment
• Recognize and regulate their own feelings when working with families to build their reflective capacity
• Improve the relationship they have with harder-to-engage families
• Enhance their ability to provide attuned developmental information in a way that increases parental capacity 

The FAN Approach can also serve as a framework for Reflective Supervision and help supervisors:
• Read practitioners’ cues during supervision and match their responses to the practitioners’ concerns
• Create more opportunities during supervision for practitioners to reflect upon their own feelings and experiences during visits; and use these reflections to engage with families with new awareness
• Use reflective tools to help practitioner’s communicate more effectively with parents 

The FAN Approach also provides a structure for work with parents and supervision sessions which helps:
• Prepare clinicians and supervisors to be fully present
• Clinicians and supervisors understand the "felt experience" of the person(s) receiving support
• Clinicians and supervisors share power and collaborate with each other and parents
• To share power and collaborate
• Build clinician and parent capacity for reflective functioning

Click here to learn more about the Fussy Baby Network.

Trainers:

Cynthia Bouchard, Coordinator, Extended Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP); Program Manager, Community Based Services; Program Manager Preschool/Early Childhood Services with Anne Arundel County Public Schools

Latrice Gray, LCSW-C, Lower Shore Early Childhood Mental Health Coalition, Salisbury University School of Social work.

The Details:

• Date:  October 7 & 14, 2019
• Time: 9:00 - 4:30 Registration 8:30-9:00
• Place: Salisbury University University Dining Commons Caroline Room
• Cost: $140.00
• Credits: 12 Category 1 CEUs
• Parking Permit will be provided to registrants with course reminder.
  

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