T/TA Services

Professional Development for Adults Who Care for Infants and Toddlers

ITSG and Our Associates

In addition to our Principal Consultants, EHS Start-Up Planners and Infant Toddler Specialists, ITSG partners and collaborates with a diverse group of content specialists. Known as Associate Consultants, they understand best practices for serving infants, toddlers and pregnant women and can help programs ensure linguistic and cultural diversity is supported within each Head Start/EHS program and community.

ITSG and its Associate Consultants provide expert, responsive, and realistic consultation and professional development services. Our services are designed to meet Head Start Performance Standards and ensure that goals and objectives for EHS programs are implemented successfully.

ITSG provides content expertise in the following areas:

  • Infant toddler growth
  • Early childhood development and care
  • Appropriate educational goals for infants and toddlers
  • Fiscal management
  • Program design and management
  • Human services
  • Bi-lingual training
  • Facilities building and renovation
  • Information technology
  • Pediatric services for pregnant women
  • Health and nutrition
  • Family and community partnerships
  • Mental health services
  • Child care partnerships
  • Dual language learning
  • Father and father-figure involvement

ITSG provides flexible service delivery:
Training and technical assistance services are available through a variety of flexible delivery systems:

  • On-site visits
  • Off-site electronic support
  • Cluster trainings and workshops
  • Regional and national training forums
  • Webinars
  • CDA Distance learning series

ITSG supports program and management systems:

  • EHS center-based program option and facilities
  • EHS home-based program option and group facilities
  • EHS family child care program option
  • EHS combination model program option for older toddlers
  • EHS services for pregnant women

Recommendations and Design:

  • EHS recruitment, hiring, and staffing patterns
  • Establishing  primary caregiver policies
  • Establishing realistic continuity of care systems
  • EHS eligibility, recruitment, selection, enrollment, attendance and transition criteria and materials

Designing and Renovating:

  • EHS outdoor nature-based environments and play spaces
  • Infant toddler-specific center-based classrooms
  • Infant toddler-specific learning spaces for home-based group socializations
  • Environmentally and user-friendly accommodations for nursing mothers, parents, and staff

Purchasing:

  • Educational materials, equipment and furnishings
  • Supply lists and budgets

Selecting and Implementing:

  • Infant toddler developmentally appropriate curricula
  • Infant toddler screening and ongoing assessment instruments
  • Child observations
  • Individualizing
  • Developmentally-appropriate lesson planning
  • Documentation
  • Ongoing monitoring

Serving Special Populations:

  • Infants, toddlers, and adults with special needs and significant disabilities
  • Child abuse prevention
  • Teen parents
  • Homeless families
  • New immigrants
  • English-limited proficient families

Infant Toddler Development and Care Training:
Based on the modules of the Program for Infant Toddler Care (PITC) at WestEd:

  • Modules I: Social and Emotional Growth &Development
  • Module II: Group Care
  • Module III: Learning & Development
  • Module IV: Culture, Family, & Providers
  • Module V: Beginning Together (Disabilities)

Both Infant Toddler Development and Care trainers are fully certified by PITC

CDA Training – Child Development Associate (CDA) Certification:

  • CDA Distance Learning Training

Relationship-based Training for EHS Home Visitors:

  • Based on the book “Babies Can’t Wait: Relationship-based Home Visiting” by Linda Kimura

EHS Group Socialization: Parent-child groups that rock!

  • Designed to create and implement developmentally-appropriate learning environments and curricula for parent and children.

Training and Technical Assistance:

  • Reflective and Supportive Supervision for Center-based and Home-based staff
  • Practical Teaching Strategies for Dual Language Learning