HOPE STREET FAMILY CENTER1401 S. Grand Avenue
Los Angeles, California 90015
Tel: (213) 742-6385
www.chmcla.org
Vickie Kropenske, RN, MSN, Executive Director
Michael Regalado, MD
Hope Street Family Center's Mission is to enhance the capacity of parents and families to nurture and care for their children; promote children's overall health, development, school readiness, and academic achievement; and strengthen existing service delivery networks and foster community partnerships, by developing services that are accessible and responsive to their community.
The Hope Street Infant Development Training program is a community-based clinical training program that provides mentored clinical experiences in observation and assessment, in support of parents and children, 0-3 years of age. During 2011-2012, the program proposes to: 1) build upon current strategies, delivering a core 15-week training program to 30 professionals currently working with infants and toddlers, as well as undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students from partnering university programs; 2) prepare future curriculum trainers in order to expand outreach to relevant community and funding partners; and 3) adapt curriculum to reach new a new audience - family child care providers.
The Infant Development Training Program is based in a curriculum organized by principles of attachment theory highlighting the development of self-regulation and integrating domains of development along social-emotional and adaptive themes. The curriculum is formatted to guide the trainee in the clinical application of basic child development knowledge, with a focus on the social processes of care giving that interact with individual differences in children and families. The curriculum can be widely used to support the development of professionals serving children 0-3. For example, it has become the training framework for the required rotation in child development at the LAC+USC Pediatric Residency Program.
Program goals include:
- Increasing professional knowledge and understanding of early emotional, cognitive, language and physical development as adaptive (vs.pathological) and nested in relationships with caregivers;
- Providing learning experiences that promote acquisition of clinical skills in assessment, communication, and intervention,
- Expanding the number of key personnel within community-based agencies who have the knowledge and skills necessary to serve as future mentors and trainers, and
- Adapting the current curriculum to use with family child care providers.
The Atlas Family Foundation has been a Funding Partner of the Hope Street Family Center Infant Development Training Program since 2008.
Recent AFF grant:
$60,607, October 2011
