ESIT Training Calendar

Promoting First Relationship (PFR) Reflective Consultation is a monthly, protected time that gives ESIT providers the opportunity to explore their work with families and young children in a safe, supportive space. It offers a time for providers to reflect about their own needs and to reflect about the emotional needs of both parents/caregivers and children utilizing the PFR lens. These groups also provide an opportunity to hear and learn from other perspectives.  Participants report feeling increased joy and competence in their work and increased empathy for the families they work with. 

Participants may count these hours toward Reflective Supervision hours for Infant Mental Health Endorsement (previously WA-AIMH endorsement). Attendees must be ESIT professionals who have attended PFR level 1 training or above.

Please consider accepting this invitation to participate in a facilitated support group for mental health providers including:

• Psychologists, social workers, MFT’s, and LPC’s
• Other providers who are endorsed through the Center for Early Relational Health as Infant Early Childhood Specialists or Infant Early Childhood Mental Health Specialists*.

Participants must be either employed by, or under contract with, ESIT provider agencies and engaged in work supporting enrolled infants, toddlers, and families. In addition to fostering connections with colleagues doing similar work, this is an opportunity to share insights that can inform systems and policies that support this important work.

Groups will be skillfully facilitated by Dr. Barbara Stroud a licensed psychologist with over three decades of culturally informed clinical practice in early childhood development and mental health.

This is a monthly 45-minute group with 8-9 participants, offered in a 6-month series. You will be asked to make a 6-month commitment when registering for the group.

For questions about this opportunity or to request accommodations, please email: dcyf.ESITtraining@dcyf.wa.gov.

*this is a support group and will not count toward reflective supervision hours. Dr. Barbara Stroud is not credentialed to provide reflective supervision in Washington State.

This in-depth training consists of 15 weeks of mentored professional development to become certified in the PFR evidence-based home-visiting model. During this training, ESIT Service Providers, who have completed PFR Level 1, view and discuss professionally filmed PFR intervention sessions with caregivers and young children to deepen their infant mental health observation and reflection skills. Participants enhance their skills as they work with a caregiver/child dyad as they deliver the 10-week PFR intervention within their own program. Providers receive direct support on how to discuss the caregiver-child videos, and how to implement the PFR concepts and consultation strategies. 

By the end of the training, participants are certified to deliver the 10-week evidence-based model with the families on their caseload. Having PFR level 2 and/or level 3 certified providers at each ESIT Provider Agency gives families the ability to access the 10-week PFR program for themselves and their child. 

If interested in Level 2, send email of interest to dcyf.esittraining@dcyf.wa.gov 

This in-depth training is for Certified PFR level 2 providers and supports high fidelity to the model, and prepares participants to be an Agency Trainer. Participants receive 15 additional weeks of mentoring from a PFR Master Trainer as they implement the PFR intervention with a 2nd dyad, grow in their PFR expertise and reflective consultation skills, and learn how to train and support others who are trained to PFR level 2. The Agency Trainer model provides a way to sustain and grow the PFR program within the ESIT Provider Agency. 

Trainers can deliver the PFR 10-week program to families, as well as provide PFR level 2 training to staff within their organization, conduct regular reflective consultation with their PFR trained providers, and provide overall support for their program within their ESIT Provider Agency. Having PFR level 2 and/or level 3 certified providers at each ESIT Provider Agency gives families the ability to access the 10-week PFR program for themselves and their child. 

If interested in PFR Level 3 training, send an email of interest to dcyf.esittraining@dcyf.wa.gov 

Join a PFR trainer and ESIT Service Providers from across Washington State to discuss embedding the PFR consultation strategies into your everyday coaching practices. Participants will explore PFR concepts, share experiences of embedding PFR into practice, and receive support and consultation from PFR trainers.  There will be a panelist of providers (PT, SLP and educator) attending various sessions to discuss ways to embed PFR practices into your work with children and families. ESIT Providers must have received PFR Level 1, 2, or 3 training to attend. 

This 3-hour workshop introduces reflective practice and the foundational values and skills that support it, including pausing/slowing down, self-awareness, critical thinking, and self-compassion. Participants will learn:

• the purpose and benefits of reflective practice
• key skills that support reflective practice
• strategies for incorporating reflection into daily experiences. 

Note: This course is one of the five modules included in the Foundations of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health training series listed above. If you have already taken that series, it is recommended you not register for this course unless you would like to repeat that module. 

Learn more about the Foundations of Reflective Practice training course here 

Join a PFR trainer and ESIT Service Providers from across Washington State to discuss embedding the PFR consultation strategies into your everyday coaching practices. Participants will explore PFR concepts, share experiences of embedding PFR into practice, and receive support and consultation from PFR trainers.  There will be a panelist of providers (PT, SLP and educator) attending various sessions to discuss ways to embed PFR practices into your work with children and families. ESIT Providers must have received PFR Level 1, 2, or 3 training to attend. 

This in-depth training consists of 15 weeks of mentored professional development to become certified in the PFR evidence-based home-visiting model. During this training, ESIT Service Providers, who have completed PFR Level 1, view and discuss professionally filmed PFR intervention sessions with caregivers and young children to deepen their infant mental health observation and reflection skills. Participants enhance their skills as they work with a caregiver/child dyad as they deliver the 10-week PFR intervention within their own program. Providers receive direct support on how to discuss the caregiver-child videos, and how to implement the PFR concepts and consultation strategies. 

By the end of the training, participants are certified to deliver the 10-week evidence-based model with the families on their caseload. Having PFR level 2 and/or level 3 certified providers at each ESIT Provider Agency gives families the ability to access the 10-week PFR program for themselves and their child. 

If interested in Level 2, send email of interest to dcyf.esittraining@dcyf.wa.gov 

This in-depth training is for Certified PFR level 2 providers and supports high fidelity to the model, and prepares participants to be an Agency Trainer. Participants receive 15 additional weeks of mentoring from a PFR Master Trainer as they implement the PFR intervention with a 2nd dyad, grow in their PFR expertise and reflective consultation skills, and learn how to train and support others who are trained to PFR level 2. The Agency Trainer model provides a way to sustain and grow the PFR program within the ESIT Provider Agency. 

Trainers can deliver the PFR 10-week program to families, as well as provide PFR level 2 training to staff within their organization, conduct regular reflective consultation with their PFR trained providers, and provide overall support for their program within their ESIT Provider Agency. Having PFR level 2 and/or level 3 certified providers at each ESIT Provider Agency gives families the ability to access the 10-week PFR program for themselves and their child. 

If interested in PFR Level 3 training, send an email of interest to dcyf.esittraining@dcyf.wa.gov 

Join a PFR trainer and ESIT Service Providers from across Washington State to discuss embedding the PFR consultation strategies into your everyday coaching practices. Participants will explore PFR concepts, share experiences of embedding PFR into practice, and receive support and consultation from PFR trainers.  There will be a panelist of providers (PT, SLP and educator) attending various sessions to discuss ways to embed PFR practices into your work with children and families. ESIT Providers must have received PFR Level 1, 2, or 3 training to attend.