Join the State Collaborative on Reforming Education (SCORE) and NashvilleHealth, as we bring together state and national partners to better understand youth mental health and the ways in which it affects education outcomes. We’ll highlight data, research and lived experience, while spotlighting innovative ways Tennessee is working to strengthen student well-being.

Date: April 3rd, 2024
Time: 10:00 am - 3:00 pm CST
Where: Nashville, TN

This course explores how to use a relationship-based care approach to understand and respond to child behaviors that providers find challenging. Participants learn to respond to children’s behavior by deeply reflecting upon their own reactions to children’s behavior, regulating their emotional reactions, and engaging families to mutually understand the reasons for their children’s behavior.

Start Date: March 19, 2024
Contact Hours: 16

Cost: $500

Parenting While Black series in 2024, Believe, Liberate, and Behold: Beautifully Brilliant Black Babies and Children. This free, engaging webinar series will offer real conversations for and between Black parents. Let's discuss raising Black children and families: 

• Experience of Black parenting, while recognizing our “differences” 

• Raising bold, brilliant, and culturally grounded Black children  

• Achieving Health and Mental Health Equity for Black children, youth, families, and communities

• Thriving in harmful environmental barriers 

• Protecting and liberating Black children, families, and communities

Date: March 18 - June 24, 2024
Time: 2 - 3:30 p.m. CST

Touchpoints: The How of Child and Family Engagement is an intensive training program that introduces the Touchpoints Approach, which is an evidence-based approach to building strong family-child relationships from before birth through age 5. Participants who implement Touchpoints in their practice partner with families to lay the vital foundation for children’s early learning and healthy development. Touchpoints provides a practical, preventive approach that supports professionals in forming strength-based partnerships with families.

Start Date: March 12, 2024
Contact Hours: 28

Cost: $795

When influencing the halls of power, whether in your town, your state capitol, or Washington, DC, advocacy makes a difference. In this free webinar series, updated with new content for 2024, participants learn skills to be an effective advocate for issues they care about and be engaged and informed members of their communities. From strategies for organizing stakeholders to methods for communicating your priorities, this series explores everything you need to make an impact on the issues most important to you.

Date: February 27 - March 26, 2024
Time: 11 a.m. CST

*Applications are due by Feb 9th, 2024.

This training supports clinicians, who work in the lives of children under six and their families involved with the child welfare system. Participants will have the opportunity to learn how to assess and meet the unique needs of our state’s most vulnerable children.

Theoretical foundations of attachment, child development, and trauma will be expanded upon to support best practices for serving these children across systems. To enhance clinical skillsets this training with integrate recordings, case vignettes, and small group activities.

(In-Person Workshop)
Dates: February 22 - 23, 2024
Time: 8:30 a.m. CST

Professionals who work with young children, including early care educators, family child care providers, mental health consultants, home visitors, pediatricians, early interventionists, and more.

Learn how you can enter into each child’s world, understand what they are experiencing, and best support their unique developmental process.

(Virtual Workshop Series)
Dates: February 15 - March 7, 2024
Time: 12 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. CST
Cost: $140