Professional Development Opportunities

Interested in continuing to grow as a parenting educator?  Here are two ideas....

For parent educators on Long Island and in the metro area, check out the Parenting Institute at Adelphi University, Garden City, offering a variety of advanced level courses and workshops for professionals as well as programs for parents.  Currently promoting their Post Masters Training Program in Parent Education and Parent Guidance: this certificate program is an intensive training program designed for parent educators and/or clinicians who work with parents. Its goal is to promote a deepened understanding of the theories, values and principles that inform this work. Details at: http://www.adelphi.edu/parentinginstitute/

For parent educators in central New York a two day facilitator training for PS: It Works! / Personal – Professional Communication Skills is being offered Tuesday, October 30, 2012 and Wednesday, October 31, 2012 from 9 am to 4:30 pm at Cornell Cooperative Extension-Tompkins Education Center, 615 Willow Ave, Ithaca, NY 14850.  This training will help prepare professionals to use and reinforce five core communications skills with their clients, to use daily in their own personal and professional lives, to conduct the Parenting Skills Workshop Series and Parenting Skills for Literacy Series, and to make referrals to those workshops. Past participants include: parenting educators, DSS personnel, social workers, teachers, child care providers, mental health professionals, alcohol & drug rehab counselors, coaches and others who work with people! The $150 registration fee covers the 2 day training, lunch, snack, plus a Parenting Skills Workshop Series manual. Preregistration is required. For more information visit:

http://ccetompkins.org/sites/all/files/63/2012-ps-it-works-brochure.pdf