Early Childhood Services
Marina has an established career working across a variety of developmental and behavioural presentations and has mentored dozens of early childhood educators in the field of early intervention, autism, positive behaviour support and reflective practice. Marina provides a variety of services to the early childhood education sector including whole centre support, capacity building programs using evidence based strategies and supports.
Tailored professional learning to meet the needs of individual early childhood settings. Professional Learning can be delivered to whole staff, cohorts of educators or individual educators and delivered as part of staff meetings, weekly hustles, or evening training.
Learning can be tailored to general topics or in relation to children with developmental, learning, behavioural and social/emotional differences.
Professional
Learning (Staff)
Tailored and general workshops for parents and carers focused on supporting behaviour, building emotional resilience and successfully transitioning to school.
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These workshops are best delivered face to face but can be modified to deliver virtually.
Parent/Carer
Workshops
Capacity
Building and Mentoring
A capacity building coaching and mentoring service to assist early childhood services to create innovative, flexible and responsive solutions to barriers to the inclusion of particular children or groups of children.
As an Innovative Solutions* provider, the focus is to assist staff in examining the challenges unique to their service and to find tailored solutions. This is achieved through building educator knowledge and capacity using evidence based supports and through critical reflection. Specialist focus on children with developmental needs, disability, trauma and or complex behaviour.
Whole
Centre Support
A centre wide support service focuses on creating environments which match the needs of children in care. This service provides whole of service focus, examining evidence-based practices which reduce barriers to inclusion and support all children in relation to behaviour, regulation and engagement.
The service can also include specific focus on matching environments to the needs of individual children with unique presentations e.g, autism, executive functioning difficulties, communication differences, anxiety and trauma.
*Eligible Services may wish to apply for funding via The Innovative Development Fund for Innovative Solutions. The Innovative Solutions Support assists eligible services to fund innovative and flexible solutions to inclusion, where a barrier has been identified and it cannot be addressed by the support provided by its Inclusion Agency (IA), or through other IDF funding streams. Eligible services can work collaboratively with their IA to identify barriers and propose innovative solutions to inclusion to meet the specific needs of the service.
Centres may be eligible for the Innovative Solutions Support Funding (Inclusion Fund Manager) offered from KU. An application for the IDF Innovative Solutions Support may relate to a particular care environment where the inclusion barrier is presented, or in the context of the whole service. For more information visit idfm.org.au/innovative-solutions