Capstone: Practical Application in the Early Childhood Field (EDUC - 6990 - 2)

~Week 2~Professor Teri Davis~
Blog Assignment: Exploring Roles in the ECE Community: Local and State Levels 

"CoP's"

1. Children’s Institute, Inc.

711 South New Hampshire Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90005

Job Opportunities:

Early Childhood Mental Health Specialist

Skills & Experience:

Master’s degree in Early Childhood Education, Behavior Science, Psychology or related field and advanced knowledge of child development and behavior. Licensure from the Behavioral Science Board (LCSW, LMFT). A minimum of 2-year experience as a classroom behaviorist specializing in work with young children 0-5 and their families. Experience with and/or knowledge of group dynamics and intervention with children.

Children’s Institute, Inc. is a local organization that helps children who have been abused and neglected. I chose this organization because they believe in profession growth. They have a leadership center that assists the professional in advocacy, training, program development and research. For more than a century they have served those harmed by child abuse, neglect, domestic violence, gang and community violence, as well as the effects of poverty. 
 Children’s Institute, Inc. Retrieved on May 18, 2013. http://www.childrensinstitute.org/

 

Children at play

2. Inland Regional Center

1365 S. Waterman Ave.
San Bernardino, CA 92408

Job Opportunities:

Consumer Services Coordinator-Adult Services

Skills & Experience:

The desired candidate for this position will be responsible for direct case management services offered to consumers by the program. They perform advocacy responsibilities and may be assigned community liaison tasks.

BA degree in Social work, psychology, or related field. One year experience in developmental disabilities or field placement at IRC as a student.

This is a local agency that I would be interested because their mission statement is a part of my professional development:

Inland Regional Center was built on the foundation of three core values – independence, inclusion, and empowerment.  In following these core values, we hope to help provide each individual with a service system that helps identify and eliminate barriers for individuals with developmental disabilities and their families so they can closely live a typical lifestyle.

Inland Regional Center: retrieved May 18, 2013. http://inlandrc.org/

3. Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles (CHLA) (See Video Above: "CHLA:Through the Eyes of Kids" (Video) Several children document on their own video camera's what it is like to be a pediatric patient at CHLA.)

4650 Sunset Blvd.

Los Angeles, CA 90027

Job Opportunities:

Child Life Specialist I

Skills & Experience:

Child Life specialists will implement and maintain therapeutic activity programs, which would facilitate patients in their efforts to integrate and adapt to their hospital experience.
Qualifications: Bachelor degree in Child Development or a related field required; Masters Degree preferred.
I chose this organization/agency because of their simple mission statement: We create hope and build healthier futures.
Founded in 1901, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles is one of the nation’s leading children’s hospitals and is acknowledged worldwide for its leadership in pediatric and adolescent health. Children’s Hospital Los Angeles is one of only seven children’s hospitals in the nation – and the only children’s hospitals on the West Coast – ranked for two consecutive years in all 10 pediatric specialties in the U.S. News and World Report rankings and named to the magazine’s “Honor Roll” of children’s hospitals.
Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles:  Retrieved on May 18, 2013.  http://www.chla.org

"CoP this is where I really want to play: The Happiest Place on Earth" Disneyland!

  4. National Institute for Play
PO Box 1398
Carmel Valley, CA 93924

Experience:

This would be one of my Communities of Practice.

About the Institute:

The National Institute for Play is a 501c(3) non-profit public benefit corporation committed to bringing the unrealized knowledge, practices and benefits of play into public life. It is gathering research from diverse play scientists and practitioners, initiating projects to expand the clinical scientific knowledge of human play and translating this emerging body of knowledge into programs and resources which deliver the transformative power of play to all segments of society.

I chose the National Institute for play because of their vision and it is the focus of my Capstone Project:
“We envision a longer term future in which the science of Human play enables individuals, parents, teachers, leaders, and organizations to harness the power of play to create transformational differences in their individual, family, school and organizational lives”.
National Institute of Play:  Retrieved on May 18, 2013. http://www.nifplay.org