Healthy Families “Integrated Strategies for Home Visiting” Training

Bureau of Social Services Administration Department of Public Health & Social Services Project Bisita I Familia Project Kariñu
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Healthy Families America “Integrated Strategies for Home Visiting” training participants listen to trainer Casey Holt (standing) as she describes the different parts of the brain and how trauma affects its development.
Instructor holding different colored bowls.
Casey Holt, nationally certified trainer for Healthy Families America, uses bowls to demonstrate the different parts of the brain during “Integrated Strategies for Home Visiting” training at GSAT July 28-31, 2014. Healthy Families America is the home visiting model used by Project Bisita I Familia, Guam’s Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program. Participants represent Department of Public Health & Social Services-Project Kariñu, Project Bisita I Familia and Bureau of Social Services Administration; and Guam CEDDERS.

 

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Healthy Families America “Integrated Strategies for Home Visiting” training participants pose with trainer Casey Holt (holding sign) and Margarita Gay (first row 3rd from left), Project Bisita I Familia project director.

Guam Early Learning Guidelines: Three to Five Years Undergoes Revisions

Early Childhood
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Charlie Harper (standing), Guam CEDDERS Educational Consultant, facilitates a discussion with child care center directors on activities to include in the Guam Early Learning Guidelines: Three to Five Years revisions on July 18, 2014 at the School of Business and Public Administration building.
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Child care center directors work on their input to the revisions of the Guam Early Guidelines: Three to Five Years.

Live Demonstration of Video Remote Interpreting and Remote Captioning

Guam Systems for Assistive Technology

Demonstration of live remote interpreting on screen.

Demonstration of remote interpreting.
Stephen Frank (on large screen), HASA Video Remote Interpreting Director, provides a live demonstration of remote video interpreting during a meeting facilitated by Carla Torres (standing in red and black stripes), ATP, Assistive Technology and Special Projects Coordinator, Guam System for Assistive Technology (GSAT) on July 8. Approximately 50 service providers, agency representatives and self-advocates who are deaf attended the event which also included a live demonstration of remote CART (Communication Access Realtime Translation).