With various municipal entities providing services and content for young children and their caregivers, we identified a clear need to align professional practices, equip practitioners with targeted knowledge and skills for working with this audience, and establish a unified municipal approach to initiatives centered on young children and their caregivers.
We developed a four-session, process-oriented training program to establish essential skills and knowledge for effectively working with the target audience. Each session included an academic lecture delivered by an early childhood expert alongside an experiential, hands-on workshop focusing on a different theme. Examples include:
Throughout the workshops we emphasized key principles such as focusing on the parent, the importance of the parent-child dyad (rather than solely focusing on the child), recognizing the individual within the group, and fostering compassion and understanding toward parents.
Partnering municipal units: The Community, Culture, and Sports Administration; the Tel Aviv-Jaffa Municipality’s Spokesperson’s Office; the Digitaf Team; The Social Services Administration; the Community Well-baby Clinics Team.
