Let’s Connect for Families

Live, Web-based Training

4 consecutive mornings: January 25, 26, 27, 28th: 8:30am-12:30pm Mountain Time  

What is Let’s Connect™? 

Let’s Connect™ (LC) is a parenting intervention that teaches caregivers to identify and respond to children’s emotional needs and behaviors in a way that builds connection and warmth and promotes children’s emotional competence, sense of emotional security, and well-being. Let’s Connect does this in four primary ways: 

• Provides caregiver education about resilience, social and emotional development, family emotional climate, children’s behavioral challenges, and other topics specific to each family, including child trauma. 
• Builds caregivers own social and emotional skills and well-being, including caregiver self-awareness, perspective taking, emotional regulation, and supportive presence. 
• Teaches caregivers specific skills for interacting with their child in a way that promotes supportive relationship quality, child social and emotional competence, and children’s mental/behavioral health and well-being. 
• Supports caregivers in developing intentional environments that integrate rituals, routines, and daily rhythms into the home to promote predictability, consistency, and opportunities for connection. 

Let’s Connect skills are grounded in developmental and clinical research. Research shows that caregiver response to child emotion is central to fostering children’s social and emotional competence (e.g., emotion regulation), emotional security, mental/behavioral/physical health, and overall resilience.  LC offers individualized training, skills modeling, and live support for skills practice for caregivers of children and youth (ages 3-15) over approximately 8 to 12 sessions.  Families gain specific tools for addressing behavioral challenges and talking about important, and sometimes difficult family topics, including family transitions, divorce, separation, illness, trauma, grief and loss. 

Let’s Connect can be delivered as a ‘strategic enhancement’ to evidence-based child and family interventions, such as Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or as a stand-alone parenting intervention for any family. Let’s Connect has been designated as a promising practice by the National Child Traumatic Stress Network. For more information, please visit: letsconnect.org 

LC skills include: 

• Noticing and Appreciating 
• Listening to Learn more 
• Labeling Feelings 
• Emotion Support/validation skills 
• Emotion Coaching skills 
• Strategies for reducing behavioral challenges 

LC skills are taught to parents/caregivers using a variety of methods: 

• direct instruction and discussion 
• role play 
• live, guided skills practice 
• reflection 

• guided mindfulness & self-care practices 

Let’s Connect Trainers have experience delivering Let’s Connect to over 300 families.  

During Let’s Connect™ three-day virtual training, attendees will: 

1. Learn about the Let’s Connect model and skills 

1. Practice Let’s Connect Skills through role-play/vignettes 

1. Receive coaching and feedback on use of Let’s Connect Skills by trainers/consultants 

1. Learn how to track parents’ skill acquisition and use 

Ongoing web/phone consultation  

Web-based consultation is available for applying LC with your child/family cases following the in-person training for 4 months (a total of 6 hours). Calls are 60-minutes in duration and held over Zoom conferencing. Groups have approximately 8-10 clinicians. 

• Calls are 2x monthly for the first 2 months 

• Calls are 1x monthly for the next 2 months  

Additional details regarding consultation will be provided during training. 

Training Schedule: January 25-28th: 8:30am-12:30pm Mountain Time  

Cost: 

• $550 per participant, includes: 
• 4 days of live virtual training 
• 6 hours of follow-up web-based case consultation 
• Materials 

This training is supported in part by grant funds from the SAMHSA and The National Child Traumatic Stress Network