Next Steps: Ideas to Extended Practice

Identify Sources of Support for "Hot Spots"

If it feels "safe" and if you choose to do so, share the results of your journal exercise from Activity 2: Hot Spots with a peer or supervisor. Together identify possible sources of support. Agree to pursue one source of support and set a date to check-in with each other about whether or not that was helpful.

Make a Presentation to the Policy Council

Take the results from Activity 4: Care for Caregivers: Creating a Mentally Healthy Workplace, and make a presentation to the Policy Council to get its input on concrete action steps to improve the workplace.

Review the Mental Health Component Plan

Review the mental health component plan and assess whether or not it considers the mental health of and relationships among staff. If not, how might it be modified? Real attention to the mental health of staff may mean reallocating mental health resources.

Build on Trainings with Activities from other Guides

Build on this training with activities from Communicating with Parents, another curriculum from the Training Guides for the Head Start Learning Community series. Although this training resource has been written to promote communication that builds partnerships with parents, the fundamentals of improving communication can apply to all adult relationships in Head Start.

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