Events for December 17, 2025 - December 17, 2025

Session 1. This training series is for all staff new to HSOLC. Facilitated by Mary Margaret Reynolds.

It’s important to be able to attract and keep a workforce from multiple generations. Explore what NEUROSCIENCE AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY tell us about improving our effectiveness, both personally and professionally. Learn to; Understand age similarities/differences, how brains function at different ages, and how this impacts your work effectiveness. Experience how working through these differences can create an engaged, thriving workplace.

What interests you? Pick your own PD for Oct 21, with sessions in education, family services, and health. Also featuring Coffee with HR and a Staff Vaccination clinic.

Come and have fun exploring CATCH, our movement and nutrition curriculum.   We will be moving our bodies and may be outside so please dress in clothing you will be comfortable in.

Family representatives have a vital role to play as members of advisory boards, committees, and councils and it is important to feel confident and well-resourced in this work. This training will provide information, tools, strategies, and support for family members, caregivers, and peers who are serving as advocates in elevating the family voice.

Limit 24; register in advance. A More Perfect Union Café-Where Parenting and Social Justice Combine. We have been talking a lot about brave conversations with children this year, let's get the ball rolling with a safe space to have some brave conversations with each other! There will also be an opportunity to sign-up for some practice based coaching around the Parent Café curriculum. No parenting experience required, just a desire to make the world a more just place for children and ourselves. We'd love to have you join us! This training will be mostly in English with opportunities for small group work in Spanish and English.

Limit 25; register in advance. Introduction to the “Handwriting without Tears” curriculum and materials.

The session will provide an overview of Food Hero and all the free resources available to Head Start teachers for use in classrooms and on home visits. Come to this session to find out how you can better support family health for the Head Start community.

Limit 30; register in advance. Join us for a fun, hands on, stress relieving, exploration on sensory play in the classroom. There will be 3 stations to explore and some make-and-take opportunities. We will be using non-toxic ingredients to make sensory bags, various sensory Play-Doh's, engaging in hands on playtime with sensory items in classrooms that often get overlooked, and exploring various items from the Early Childhood CARES library that are available to support children on IFSP's. Recipes and how it all links to child development and TS GOLD objectives will also be included.