The Coos Coalition for Young Children and Families The Professional Development Workgroup is responsible for providing training in evidence-based social-emotional learning (SEL)  curricula for professionals working with young children and their families.

 The purpose of the Professional Development workgroup is to build on established strategies to increase infrastructure and capacity for local coaches and trainers and develop fidelity measures for evidence-based SEL practices to measure the impact of training and coaching activities on teacher and service provider skill development. 

The Professional Development workgroup will do this by:

• Build infrastructure and capacity to support local coaches and trainers

• Develop fidelity measures for teachers and service providers using evidence-based SEL practices

• Provide SEL training 

• Explore ACES and Trauma Informed Care trainings