Training

The Minnesota Departments of Health (MDH), Education (MDE), and Human Services (DHS) periodically offer trainings for programs and staff that provide developmental and social-emotional screening services for Minnesota children.

Training resources and materials

Training Toolkit: Developmental and Social-Emotional Screening and Referral

This is a training curriculum resource for Minnesota's public screening programs to provide staff training on early childhood developmental and social-emotional screening, referral, and linkage to services. Refer to Instructions for more information.

1. Instructions (PDF)
2. Slides (PowerPoint, with notes)
3. Accessible Notes - content from notes section of PowerPoint slides (Word)

Web-based trainings

• C&TC E-Learning trainings
• Child and Teen Checkups Modules on Hearing, Vision and Developmental and Social-emotional Screening for Clinics
• Other web-based trainings will be posted as available.

In-person trainings

• Ages and Stages Questionnaire (ASQ-3 and ASQ:SE) full-day, partial-day in-person trainings or webinars are available periodically through MDH's Maternal Child Health Section. For current training listings, refer to the MDH's Learning Center.
• Child and Teen Checkups (C&TC) in-person or web-based trainings are available statewide. To make a request for a C&TC training or to view training descriptions, refer to the C&TC Training Information webpage.

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Spotlight

• Expanded Help Me Grow Update (February 2019) (PDF)
• Fact Sheet: Sharing Child Information for ECSE Referrals - Guidance for Clinics and Schools (PDF)
• An Important Partnership in Child Development: Child Care Providers and Screening Programs - statewide survey of licensed child care providers on developmental and social-emotional screening
    - Full report (PDF)
    - Summary (PDF)

This is the website of the Minnesota Interagency Developmental Screening Task Force.

The Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) and the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) endorse the recommendations made by the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH).