Targeted Audience: Early Care and Education Professionals. Temperament differs from other individual attributes such as intelligence, motivation or interests. Those describe what people do and why they do it. Temperament refers to how they do it. Participants in this training will receive an overview of the nine temperament traits and the variety of influences on temperament styles. Challenging temperaments including the flexible, fearful, and feisty styles will be discussed. Participants will assess a child’s temperament as well as their own temperament to compare for a goodness of fit. This course is instructor-led and interactive through discussions and assignments in course discussion boards.

Cost: $25.00 for inservice hours, $50.00 for college credit or CEU credit

Targeted Audience: Early Care and Education Professionals. Participants in this training will understand how children's "mental health" is affected by life events, culture, environment, biology, and relationships and that these aspects serve as roads to understanding and wellness. Participants will also learn how to create safe and nurturing learning environments by understanding the impact that room arrangements, labeling, and comfortable settings have on children and caregivers. Finally, participants will learn strategies for working with families to create a healthy atmosphere for children by using a method of knowing, informing, discussing with, and supporting families, tying everything together to create positive settings for children and families in child care. This course is instructor-led and interactive through discussions and assignments in course discussion boards.

Note: This course is approved by KDHE for 15.0 hours of inservice, by KACCRRA for 1.5 hours of early childhood CEUs, and by a variety of colleges for 1.0 hours of undergraduate and graduate credit.

Cost: $25.00 for inservice hours, $50.00 for college credit or CEU credit

Targeted Audience: Early Care and Education Professionals. Participants enrolled in this course will be able to define the various types of abuse and neglect, and identify signs and symptoms of the different types of abuse and neglect. This course is instructor-led and interactive through discussions and assignments in course discussion boards.

Cost: $25.00 for inservice hours, $50.00 for college credit or CEU credit.

Strengthening Families is a new, cost-effective, doable strategy to prevent child abuse and neglect. The strategy engages early childhood professionals in working with families to build protective factors around children. This course will discuss the five protective factors, focusing on methods that early care and education professionals can utilize in daily practice. Participants will identify risk factors that a child may experience and problem-solve ways to help overcome these factors. Participants will also identify methods for engaging themselves and their communities to promote the five protective factors. In addition, participants will participate in strategic planning and goal setting for their program. This course is a two-week instructor-led and interactive through discussions and assignments in course discussion boards.

Note: This course is approved by KDHE for 10.0 hours of inservice, and by KACCRRA for 1.0 hours of early childhood CEUs. There is no college credit associated with this course, and participants are required to have completed the Child Abuse and Neglect three-week online course prior to taking this one.

Cost: $25.00 for inservice hours, $50.00 forCEU credit.

Targeted Audience: CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE OF KANSAS Course Participants.

Temperament differs from other individual attributes such as intelligence, motivation or interests. Those describe what people do and why they do it. Temperament refers to how they do it. Participants in this training will receive an overview of the nine temperament traits and the variety of influences on temperament styles. Challenging temperaments including the flexible, fearful, and feisty styles will be discussed. Participants will assess a child’s temperament as well as their own temperament to compare for a goodness of fit. This course is instructor-led and interactive through discussions and assignments in course discussion boards.