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Early Childhood Education

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A Crucial Set of Skills for the Most Crucial Time

As early-childhood educators, you play one of the most crucial roles for our children: seeing them through the first years of life. Wellpoint Care Network wants to help you recognize the signs of trauma and its impact on the developing mind and body. And most importantly – to provide children in your care the support that helps them learn and grow. 

Significant development occurs in children from ages zero to three. Sometimes their brains, bodies and behaviors change so quickly, you can notice a difference from one day to the next. That’s why it’s so crucial for early-childhood educators to be well versed in the science of adversity.

Trauma Informed Care Learning Opportunities for Early Childhood Educators

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Trauma Informed Care professional development and learning opportunities are tailored to the early-childhood care sector so you can:

  • Recognize toxic stress and its impact on the developing mind and body
  • Learn developmentally appropriate regulation strategies specifically for infants and young children
  • Suggest co-regulation activities for children and their parents or caregivers at home
  • Develop ongoing strategies for nurturing children who have had adversity in their young lives
  • Create trauma informed best practices in your school environment

A Variety of Ways to Learn

You could start with an introduction to Trauma Sensitive Schools or join one of our FREE networking communities, like the Compassion Curve for Early Care Educators or a Trauma Sensitive Schools Networking Meeting. If you would like to bring a customized Trauma Informed Early Care presentation to your site, please ask.

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Maria Andrade

Meet Maria Andrade

The diversity of the work that I do ensures that no day is like any other.

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Meet Sara Daniel, MSW, LCSW

I have been working with Wellpoint for more than 20 years, transforming K-12 and Early Childhood…

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Meet Tim Grove

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Tim Grove

Tim Grove

Senior Director of Trauma Informed Strategy and Practice

Tim Grove serves as the Senior Director of Trauma Informed Strategy and Practice at Wellpoint Care Network. Tim has more than 25 years of experience in the social service field in a variety of programs and roles. Tim has been a Mentor with Dr. Bruce Perry’s Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics (NMT), is a master trainer of ACE Interface and is the creator of Wellpoint Care’s Trauma Informed Care (TIC) curriculum, 7 Essential Ingredients (7ei). In addition to leading the TIC efforts across all Wellpoint Care programs, Tim has been providing training and consulting on trauma, ACEs, secondary trauma/caregiver capacity and related topics for 15 years.  Tim has worked with and trained a diverse group of professionals – including judges, police officers, juvenile justice and child welfare staff, hospitals and healthcare staff, child development staff, veteran groups, college/university staff and professors, Boys and Girls Clubs, Religious Groups, Correctional staff, employers/employment staff and many others.

Tim and the Wellpoint Care team’s work has been highlighted in various radio and television projects, including a 2018 60 Minutes segment with special correspondent Oprah Winfrey and a three-year research study on the effectiveness of 7ei in child welfare published by the Journal of Child Custody in 2019.

 

Sara Daniel

Sara Daniel

Consultant / MSW, LCSW

My Story

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” —Maya Angelou

When you give a teacher or administrator and understanding along with tools that they need to be successful, you not only influence the students they have right now, but all of the students who they will encounter in the future. At Wellpoint, we are always taking on new challenges and looking for ways to innovate to make a greater impact.

Education & Experience

Sara Daniel has been helping school districts and early care settings work with students affected by trauma, mental health issues and behavioral challenges for over 20 years. She is currently a senior coach and consultant for the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction Trauma Sensitive School Initiative and the co-author of the Trauma Sensitive Schools Learning Module Series. She has worked with countess school districts nationwide and has trained thousands of school staff on the 7ei of Trauma Sensitive Schools. Sara is also certified in the Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics (NMT) and is the leader of the Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) Interface Master Trainer Project for the State of Wisconsin.

I earned my master’s degree in Social Work from UW Milwaukee and am certified in the Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics and the Neurosequential Model of Education.

Maria Andrade

Maria Andrade

Director of Administrative Services – Child & Family Well-being Program

I began my career at Wellpoint Care in 2009. The diversity of the work that I do ensures that no day is like any other. I get to lead a team who is focused on supporting the work of our mission – even if it’s not in their job description. Wellpoint Care has created an environment that allows me to thrive professionally while supporting my work-life balance in the various seasons of both my professional and personal life. We are allowed opportunity to be innovative and creative together in how we achieve goals while never losing sight of our mission. It’s encouraging to see the result of the organization listening to feedback by providing space for us to come together as an agency and have conversations around diversity, equity and inclusion, and then be a part of the work towards change.

I am a first-generation Puerto Rican, born in the United States and first in my family to have graduated college and continued to receive master’s degree. I’m bilingual and fully fluent in Spanish. I oversee the Mentoring Program and am a part many other diversity-related committees.

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