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The Family Place Training Institute
The four day Family Place Training Institute provides theoretical grounding in family-centered library services and practical training in the core components of Family Place. The Family Place Training Institute prepares participants to implement the initiative locally and provides a venue for librarians to share experiences and effective practices with one another.
Topics covered include:
- Assets and needs assessment
- Serving families and children through partnerships with other agencies
- Community outreach to new and underserved families
- Coalition building
- Infant brain development
- Child development
- Emergent literacy
- Parent engagement & education
- The Parent-Child Workshop
- Additional programming
- Space design
- Collection development
- Marketing
- Documentation and evaluation
All training participants receive a training manual, relevant books and articles to help implement the Family Place Libraries™ initiative. After completing the training, Family Place Libraries staff provides ongoing technical assistance and site support to all network libraries.