NEWBORN TOUCH ESSENTIALS

Tawanna Green (Event Organizer)

Chris Lester (Instructor)

Delphine Brock (Host)

Instructor:

Christine Lester, M.Ed, IMH-E®, NBC-HWC

Infant Family Specialist

Chair, North Florida Chapter, Florida Association for Infant Mental Health

Creator and Lead Trainer, Newborn Touch Essentials Training 

This class is great for:

Child Care Teachers

Family Child Care Providers

Foster Caregivers

Parents and Parents-to-be of Infants

Grandparents

Home Visitors

Basically, anyone who changes a diaper!

Description:

Newborn Touch Essentials training provides parents and caregivers with the core knowledge, essential skills and care practices needed to help infants cry less, sleep more and flourish as they grow. Participants will learn how relationships between babies and adults form the essential foundation for emotional wellbeing in parallel with the development of healthy brain architecture — the cognitive infrastructure that supports all future learning.

Newborn Touch Essentials training will provide all infant caregivers with the essential skills to observe, understand and respond to infant behaviors. These skills have the added ability to diminish or buffer the effects of toxic stress for babies in ways that will build and strengthen their resilience from the start. This is a hands-on learning experience, where dolls are used for demonstration and for participants to practice practical skills that will become part of doing daily tasks and enrich and enliven the caregiving experience.

Skills taught include

• holding and positioning,
• techniques for soothing a crying baby,
• methods for gentle touch and massage
• appropriate swaddling methods (when and where to use it)

Location:

Kids Hope Alliance

1095 A Philip Randolph Blvd

Jacksonville, FL 32206

Multi-purpose Room #122

Date:

This class is Friday, June 2, 2023

This class will be offered on a monthly basis, 1st Fridays, at KHA.

First Fridays 2023: January 6, February 3, March 3, April 7, May 5, June 2, July 7, August 4

Time:

9:00 AM to 1:00 PM (light refreshments provided)

Credit:

4 hours of DCF documentable inservice/training credit