This page is an extension of the Devereux Center for Resilient Children’s Summer 2023 Resilience Quarterly newsletter.
Note: While some of the following products are available from our online store, most are currently only available to purchase from our publishing partner Kaplan Early Learning Company. Those products are noted as such, so please know that the order buttons link to Kaplan’s website. Thank you and happy shopping!
e-DECA
You can administer the nationally standardized, reliable and valid Devereux Early Childhood Assessment (DECA) for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers ONLINE! This web-based application allows for both teacher and parent ratings to be entered online, it completes all scoring, generates reports, provides strategies for both school and home settings and stores your data in a secure database. Get started with the e-DECA in order to promote resilience and social-emotional health in young children and in the adults who care for them!
*Sold exclusively by our publishing partner Kaplan Early Learning Company.
DECA for Infants and Toddlers Strategies Guide
This guide provides research-based, simple, easy-to-use social and emotional strategies for the home and childcare setting. With hundreds of strategies, organized into five chapters, this guide is a wonderful reference for any caregiver who is interested in promoting the social and emotional health of infants and toddlers. Included are reproducible forms and checklists to help programs reflect on overall social and emotional quality of early care and education settings.
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Promoting Resilience For Now and Forever Family Guide (Infants and Toddlers)
This guide supports families in understanding what social and emotional infants and toddlers is, how to recognize key behaviors, and how to support children’s social and emotional health in the home setting in simple ways every day!
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DECA for Preschoolers Strategies Guide
This guide provides teachers with research-based strategies and tips to enhance children’s social and emotional health, as well as hundreds of tips for improving the overall quality of preschool programs. Take a peek at sample strategies and tips.
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Promoting Resilience For Now and Forever Family Guide (Preschool)
This resource gives family-friendly information on promoting a child’s social and emotional health at home. Available in English and Spanish. Take a peek at sample pages of this resource.
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Socially Strong, Emotionally Secure: 50 Activities to Promote Resilience in Young Children
Now more than ever, adults must help children develop the skills necessary to navigate successfully through life. By focusing on building social and emotional strengths, adults increase children’s resilience and prepare them to handle the challenges in life. The strategies and activities found in this resource provide teachers with the tools they need to help children become socially and emotionally healthy for life. Organized into five chapters, the activities support and build resilience in children ages 3-8.
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FLIP IT! Transforming Challenging Behavior
This informative book by Rachel Wagner, MSW, in partnership with the Devereux Center for Resilient Children, is designed to support all adults who interact with young children. It explains FLIP IT‘s four simple steps for transforming challenging behavior in young children: F – Feelings, L – Limits, I – Inquiries, P – Prompts. Teachers and parents can help children learn about their feelings and gain self-control by using that mnemonic. Learn to FLIP IT with the book’s practice pictures, reflection activities and real-life stories.
*Sold by our publishing partner Kaplan Early Learning Company.
Building Your Bounce: Simple Strategies for a Resilient You
Research confirms the critical connection between the health and well-being of children and the adults caring for them. Because of this important link, it is essential that adults take care of themselves so that they are able to provide high-quality care to the children in their lives. This journal is designed to meet adults where they are and take them to a place of greater strength and determination. Through reflective readings, activities, journaling and written responses, this book will uncover strategies for strengthening four areas related to resilience.
*Sold by our publishing partner Kaplan Early Learning Company.
Your Journey Together: Building the Resilience of Children and Families
Your Journey Together (YJT) is a strength-based curriculum designed to promote the social and emotional well-being and resilience of vulnerable children and their families. The YJT curriculum focuses on empowering parents to promote safe, trusting and healing environments – all key elements of a trauma-sensitive program. While YJT is designed for families with young children – infants, toddlers, preschoolers – many of the concepts apply to families with children of all ages.
*Available to purchase from our online store!
FLIP IT Online Course
Want to learn to FLIP IT, but can’t make it to a live training? No problem! Learn to FLIP IT at your own pace by choosing the FLIP IT! Online Course, 2nd Edition. The entire length of the course is approximately 2.5 hours including interaction, reflection, application of skills learned with FLIP IT and a final assessment. Most importantly, this course can be taken module by module and not all in one sitting. Empower yourself and your colleagues by purchasing this course today!
*Available to purchase from our online store!
Classroom Moments: Video Clips to Enhance Early Childhood Observation and Training
Designed to enhance training, this download includes 28 video clips from early childhood classrooms, including clips that illustrate Prevention in Action, Positive Guidance, Learning Opportunities, Developing Observation Skills, and Case Studies. In addition to the video clips, this download also comes with a trainer guide for use in developing training and workshops for staff.
*Available to purchase from our online store!
Looking for free resources?
Our team’s partnership with you – the adults caring for young children – is incredibly important to us, so we’ve cultivated all of our resources that are available to you at no cost, and created a Free Resources Library. We know we have a lot to offer, so we hope this library provides you with the resources you need. If you can’t find what you’re looking for, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
