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  • Multi-Session Support Group for Adults

    Recurring
    Virtual

    A closed support group has the same group members (up to 12) for a set number of sessions (8). Closed support groups are ideal for adults who are looking for deeper connections and more extensive peer support from group members. For the best support group experience, closed group members should plan on attending all 8 meetings in the series. This group offers a safe environment where Autistic men can talk with like-minded people, share issues and concerns, and celebrate successes. Common topics include: disclosure, self-advocacy, and relationships.

    Dates
    January 9
    January 16
    January 23
    January 30
    February 6
    February 13
    February 20
    February 27

    $100

  • Touchpoints Training: The How of Child and Family Engagement (JAN2025)

    Recurring
    Virtual

    Touchpoints: The How of Child and Family Engagement is an intensive training program that introduces the Touchpoints Approach, which is an evidence-based approach to building strong family-child relationships from before birth through age 5. Participants who implement Touchpoints in their practice partner with families to lay the vital foundation for children’s early learning and healthy development.

    Course format: This course consists 28 training hours including six monthly one-hour virtual reflective practice sessions. Attendance is required at all live sessions, each of which is 4 hours long. Participants who complete the course will receive a certificate of attendance. This course is approved for 20.25 Continuing Education Credits for physicians, nurses, social workers, and psychologists. Learn more.

    Session Dates and Times: This course will take place on the following days @ 9 am – 1 pm ET / 6 – 10 am PT

    Tues 01/14/2025
    Thurs 01/16/2025
    Tues 01/21/2025
    Thurs 01/23/2025
    Tues 01/28/2025
    Thurs 01/30/2025
    What you will learn:

    Strategies for building partnerships with parents that promote family strengths
    A framework to understand why children’s behavior can sometimes be challenging and confusing
    Techniques for talking with families about child development concerns
    How to actively listen to families and collaboratively solve problems related to child development or a child-family relationship
    Number of participants: Minimum of 10 Maximum of 20

    $895

  • Multi-Session Support Group for Parents of High School Teens

    Recurring
    Virtual

    This closed group is designed for parents and family members of Autistic high school teens. This group is limited to 15 participants for caregivers to connect with one another and share information.

    Dates
    January 9
    January 16
    January 23
    January 30
    February 6
    February 13
    February 20
    February 27

    $180

  • Strengths-based Leadership, Mentorship, and Coaching (Jan 2025)

    Recurring
    Virtual

    Whether you are a leader, mentor, manager, or coach, you know that building relationships with the people you work with is key. And you know that the way you work with them shapes the way they work, and their own wellbeing too. Focusing on their strengths in your conversations with them can help build collaborative, trusting relationships that inspire confidence, nurture practice change, and unleash professional growth. This workshop series offers strategies you can use to further cultivate and sustain a strengths-based approach in your leadership, mentorship and coaching role.

    In this course, participants will learn:

    How to take the other person’s perspective to support a strengths-based approach
    How to identify where staff start and how they are advancing in their learning process
    How to highlight and appreciate staff strengths in your interactions with them
    Strategies that can help you deepen your connections with staff
    Facilitator:

    Christina Mondi-Rago, PhD
    Intended Audience:

    All professionals who serve in a leadership, management, coach, or mentor role, including directors, supervisors, coaches, peer or team leaders, and education or mental health consultants

    Course format:

    2-part workshop series, 3 hours each, totaling 6 hours of training
    January 22 & 23, 1-4 pm ET / 10-1 pm PT
    Live Spanish translation and closed captioning available
    Participants receive a certificate of participation

    $200

  • Building Trust, Breaking Blame, and Healing Shame: Conflict Coaching Conversations for Constructive Futures

    Virtual

    Relationships in special education and early intervention can be stormy and may be damaged beyond repair when three indicators of dysfunction dictate the conversation and the direction — Mistrust, Blame, and Shame. When someone feels they aren't safe with another, or the other is to blame, or they have let themselves down, we create the fuel for "Hurt People to Hurt People." From the first family contact through all of our dispute resolution processes, tools for Building Trust, Breaking Blame, and Healing Shame ease the fear, anxiety, and hurt, and allow us to build stronger partnerships to benefit everyone. This webinar focuses on conflict coaching conversations anyone can use to achieve these goals.

  • Multi-Session Small Group Employment Coaching for New Job Seekers

    Recurring
    Virtual

    If you are starting out on your search for a job or have been looking for some time and it’s all a bit intimidating and confusing for you, this coaching course could be just what you need to demystify the process.

    This practical coaching course will cover all aspects of job hunting by building your knowledge weekly, helping you identify action steps and supporting you to work through any worries or issues you face, with the help of a workbook. You will be provided with guidance, training, accountability and inspiration over 8 weeks to help you feel more confident about applying for, interviewing for, securing and keeping a job.

    Dates
    January 16
    January 23
    January 30
    February 6
    February 13
    February 20
    February 27
    March 6

    $150

  • Online “Closed” Support Group for Women (18-35)

    Recurring
    Virtual

    This “closed” support group is designed for Autistic women (18-35). Through this “closed” support group, women (18-35) can build an ongoing connection with a small group of other women. AANE “closed” support groups for women also give women an opportunity to voice their concerns and frustrations. It also lets them acknowledge hard-won and unexpected victories. Common topics of discussion are:

    Masking/camouflaging
    Sensory sensitivities/overloads
    Relationships
    Self-care
    Empathy

    $100

  • Multi-Session Support Group for Autistic Parents

    Recurring
    Virtual

    This is a Support Group for autistic adults who are parents. As an autistic individual, parenting brings with it a multitude of unique experiences and challenges. That’s why we’re here! Together we can share lived experiences and offer support to one another so we can grow and succeed in parenthood. Parents of all genders are welcome, whether your child is arriving soon, a toddler, in high school, or an adult themselves. This group is open to parents of all genders.

    Dates
    January 9
    January 16
    January 23
    January 30
    February 6
    February 13
    February 20
    February 27

    $100

  • *Rescheduled* Community Connection Session for Parents of Children/Teens/Young Adults (through age 22)

    Virtual

    This event is to help parents with an Autistic child. If you’re unsure how to provide structure with kids out of school, need some self-care, or if you’re feeling isolated from other adults and the community drop into our community support sessions to connect with other parents via the Zoom online video conferencing links below. Sessions will be facilitated by AANE’s Individual and Family Services staff who know firsthand the need to maintain a balance for ourselves and our children when life brings the unexpected.

    Free

  • Virtual

    This training will provide early childhood educators with care with guidance on the essential elements of a high-quality infant and toddler program.

    Participants will gain knowledge in “Setting the Stage for Program Quality” and the dive into the 10 Guidelines for Operating a High-Quality Program:

    – 1: Aspiring to Be a High-Quality Program
    – 2: Addressing Culture, Diversity, and Equity
    – 3: Supporting Relationships, Interactions, and Guidance
    – 4: Engaging Families and Communities
    – 5: Including Children with Disabilities or Other Delays
    – 6: Promoting Health, Safety, and Nutrition
    – 7: Assessing Children’s Learning and Development
    – 8: Planning the Learning Environment and Curriculum
    – 9: Supporting Professionalism and Continuous Learning
    – 10: Administering Programs and Supervising Staff

    Competency Area: Learning Environments and Curriculum (LEC)

    To register for this training, please email Mercedes Williams at Mwilliams@ccrcca.org and provide your full name, and ECE Workforce Registry ID number along with the title of the training.

  • Touchpoints Training for Mental Health Clinicians and Developmental Services Providers (JAN 2025)

    Recurring
    Virtual

    The Touchpoints Approach can be integrated into mental health clinical therapeutic theory and practice, as well as into developmental evaluation and therapeutic services. This training applies Touchpoints to help providers nurture strengths-based collaborative partnerships with families especially when families are affected by children’s special needs.

    Brazelton Touchpoints has proven to improve provider and parent knowledge of child development, reduce parental stress, and enhance collaborative family-provider partnerships in service of healthier family-child relationships. Touchpoints implements a deep understanding of children’s behavior as a primary family engagement and treatment strategy by anticipating known periods of increased stress in family functioning that are associated with developmental processes. Touchpoints employs developmental-relational care to effectively manage behavioral, emotional, or relational concerns that might arise about a child.

    In this training, participants practice strengths-based strategies to nurture collaborative partnerships with families in service of emotional well-being and parental competence. They also gain knowledge of theory and practice in delivering culturally-humble, relationship-based, developmentally-informed psychotherapeutic services. While Brazelton Touchpoints is a preventive model of care, this adaptation for mental health and developmental clinicians incorporates its theory and practice into intervention and treatment, taking into account effects of trauma and healing upon development and family functioning. Touchpoints is designed to complement existing psychotherapeutic skills to enhance diverse clinical orientations and techniques. These may include infant and early childhood mental health dyadic and family systems, child-parent psychotherapy, interpersonal and psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, parent guidance, and developmental play therapy.

    Course format: This course consists 28 training hours including six monthly one-hour virtual reflective practice sessions. Each of the five modules takes about five hours to complete, and includes a live, interactive Zoom session, assignments for independent practice, and online discussion. Attendance is required at all live sessions. Participants who complete the course will receive a certificate. This course is approved for 20.25 Continuing Education Credits for physicians, nurses, social workers, and psychologists. Learn more.

    Session Dates and Times: Live sessions are on Mondays, 12-4 pm ET / 9 am – 1 pm PT

    01/27/2025
    02/03/2025
    02/10/2025
    02/24/2025
    03/03/2025
    03/10/2025
    The live sessions will be followed by six monthly Reflective Practice calls; the schedule will be set prior to the end of the main training.

    What you will learn:

    Strategies for building partnerships with parents that promote family strengths and emphasize preventive emotional health as well as therapeutic healing
    Techniques for integrating strengths-based attitudes and relationship-based practices into therapeutic care for individuals and families
    Strategies for strengthening parent-child relationships as a key influence on a child’s development and emotional functioning
    How to understand the processes of child development that create stress and conflict within families and how these offer opportunities for deepened relationship and healing
    Treatment techniques to address the impact of trauma and adversity within and upon the developmental process
    A framework to understand why children’s behavior can sometimes be challenging and confusing
    Techniques for talking with families about child development concerns
    How to actively listen to families and collaboratively solve problems related to child development or a child-family relationship
    Number of participants:

    Minimum of 10

    Maximum of 20

    $895