Early Support for Infants and Toddlers (ESIT): Facilitators and Consultants RFQ


Best Starts for Kids - Early Support for Infants and Toddlers (ESIT) Strategy


Best Starts is a community-driven initiative to support every baby born or child raised in King County so they reach adulthood happy, healthy, safe, and thriving. Through investing in community supports from prenatal development to adulthood, Best Starts catalyzes strong starts in early childhood and sustains those gains as kids progress to adulthood, launching King County’s kids on a path of lifelong health and well-being.


ESIT promotes equitable outcomes for families with children, aged birth to three, who have developmental delays or disabilities. Eligible infants and toddlers, and their families, are entitled to individualized, quality developmental services in accordance with the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), Part C. Services include Family Resources Coordination, education, speech or motor therapies, and take place at home, childcare, and community settings.


Summary


WestEd is requesting applications from professionals, trainers, consultants, community educators, technical assistance providers, ESIT providers, etc. who have a passion for sharing knowledge regarding developmental delays or disabilities impacting infants and toddlers, holding racial equity, social justice, and family centered practices as the foundation for trainings, facilitating multidisciplinary spaces, and engaging in deep learning with others in the birth to three field. We want you to join us in providing learning opportunities for providers in ways that can transform systems and practices such as:


  • An introductory ESIT Course,
  • Communities of Practice, or
  • Workshops tailored to ESIT Service Providers
  • Agency-specific technical assistance for new or continuing ESIT programs
  • Centering Black/African American excellence with our work with children and families
  • Training for interpreters working with ESIT families, youth and adults with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities
  • Reflective practice group for providers who support Deaf/Hard of Hearing children and families
  • Culturally-relevant social-emotional assessment practices and tools
  • Growing our capacities to support feeding and nutrition
  • Trauma-informed postpartum depression screening and follow-up
  • Focused support for ESIT fiscal responsibilities such as billing
  • Community outreach videos engaging diverse families


If this sounds like something you would want to be a part of, please complete this application to be considered to join our pool of trainers!


Any questions, please contact - Rima Fusisi at bsk-wested@wested.org.

*Please limit answers to 3,000 characters with the exception of the Topics section.*

(First and Last)

This application is open to residents of the United States only. Please list your city and state.

(we are often looking for people who can train in multiple languages in addition to English)

Describe your experience teaching, facilitating, and/or sharing knowledge towards developmental outcomes for children birth to three and their families in the context of culture, language and community.


Include who you typically train/ support (e.g. service providers who serve pregnant individuals, babies and toddlers, families...).

Please share your knowledge of Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, Part C and its implementation in Washington State as the Early Support for Infants and Toddlers (ESIT) Program, infant and early childhood mental health, and family centered practices.

How do you center racial equity and disability justice, and tailor your workshops to community needs?

Learning Opportunities

How do you create and facilitate learning opportunities that are:


  • Inclusive of all types of learners
  • Practical
  • Supportive for participants to apply the new learnings with the children and families they support

Please provide a list of workshops/trainings that you have facilitated pertaining to the topic areas of interest.

Please provide a list of topics you would be interested in planning or facilitating, even if you haven't in the past.

Content*

Are you willing to collaborate with us to adapt or modify your workshop/training content to ensure alignment with Best Starts for Kids values?

In-Person Workshop (King County - Seattle, WA)*

Would you be willing to provide in-person learning opportunities within King County? **Please note that we do not reimburse for travel expenses.**

Please describe your experience using virtual platforms such as Zoom conferencing for your workshops/trainings and familiarity with Microsoft Office Suite including PowerPoint and other presentation tools.

We view life, education, and work experiences as equally important. Is there anything else about your background and experience as related to this work that you think would be helpful for us to know? In particular, please help us understand the communities you are a part of and have strong relationships with.

Please upload your resume/curriculum vitae.

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Is there anything else you would like us to know that supports your application.

We are so grateful for the time you took to do this application. Even if we do not get the opportunity to work with you, we deeply value you and the work that you do on behalf of children and families.

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