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Looking for helpful, real-life training for your team or organization?
Project LAUNCH offers free trainings for professionals serving young children and families in Erie County, PA -- equipping participants with practical tools, fresh perspectives, and greater confidence to support child and family well-being.
Explore the menu below, then request the training opportunity that best fits your group.
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Developed in partnership with Erie Consortium for a Trauma Informed Community (ECTIC), this training is designed for early childhood educators and daycare staff who want to better understand and respond to the impact of trauma in young children.
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This interactive, in-person training helps child-serving professionals approach conversations with parents and caregivers with greater confidence, care, and intention. Facilitated by professionals in the child-serving behavioral and developmental health field, the session focuses on communication strategies that strengthen connection, collaboration, and trust with families.
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This in-person training supports child-serving professionals in understanding the role of self-care in sustaining both personal well-being and professional effectiveness. Facilitated by professionals in the behavioral and developmental health field, the session explores what self-care really is—and what it is not—while addressing common myths that can get in the way of meaningful, consistent practice.
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This training helps early childhood professionals better understand how sensory processing shapes a child’s behavior, participation, and ability to learn. Participants explore how children take in, process, and respond to sensory input—and how those differences show up in everyday routines and interactions.
Looking for flexible training you can complete anytime?
Project LAUNCH shares free, online training opportunities created by trusted organizations and partners to help professionals better support young children and families.
These on-demand trainings are available at your own pace and can be a helpful fit for busy schedules, individual learning, or teams looking to build shared knowledge over time.
Explore the options below and choose the training that best supports your work.
Provided by American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP): This training helps pediatric providers better support children with ADHD by strengthening collaboration with schools. Participants will learn key AAP clinical guidelines, how to build and maintain relationships with school staff, and how to coordinate services, interventions, and accommodations. The course also equips providers to help families navigate barriers and improve outcomes for children both in care and in the classroom.
Provided by the National Child Traumatic Stress Network, "This online course was developed for individuals who work with birth parents involved in the child welfare system, and offers tips for viewing parents through a trauma lens, practical strategies to provide effective support to parents, and reminders about the importance of professionals’ own self-care."
Provided by Institute for Research, Education & Training in Addictions, Dr. David White has synthesized over 20 years of research showing the effectiveness of this method to treat compassion fatigue. Forward-Facing Professional Resilience is intended to ameliorate compassion fatigue symptoms immediately.
Provided by the Child Mind Institute, this 45-minute course, explores the foundations of behavior that support a positive classroom environment.
Made available by HeadStart, this training shares developmental reasons why young children behave in ways that are challenging to adults. Discover key strategies for addressing behaviors adults find challenging and supporting infants and toddlers when they exhibit them.
