2021 Help Me Grow National Virtual Forum Application for Content Sessions

Content Sessions will allow presenters to engage a targeted audience around a topic relevant to the Help Me Grow (HMG) Model, child health & development, and/or early childhood system building.

Please complete the following application to submit an application to present content as part of the Annual Help Me Grow National Forum.

Applications for Content Sessions are due May 14, 2021

Content Sessions will be offered during several 75-minute periods throughout the virtual Forum and will be organized according to eight content areas:

1. Validating Help Me Grow’s impact model
2. Use of data to achieve community change
3. Advancing equity in early childhood systems
4. Accelerating Help Me Grow implementation
5. Strengthening an early childhood policy and advocacy agenda
6. Family/parent leader engagement
7. Novel partnerships and integration with other early childhood programs and services
8. Community response to COVID-19

Priority will be given to ensure a robust and balanced number of presentations across all themes, should a disproportionate number of proposals be submitted for any of the eight themes. Applicants are encouraged to share their approach to the session and interactive/discussion elements that are conducive to a fully virtual event. Applications are open to HMG affiliates and their state/local partners, as well as national partners. Accepted Content Session presentations will require all presenters to register for the National Forum for (at least) the day of their presentation. Applicants can submit more than one Content Session proposal, and each will be reviewed by the Forum Planning Committee on level of anticipated interest and practical application. Applicants will be notified of proposal decisions no later than mid-June.

Content Session Presenter Experience

75-minute Content Sessions will be offered throughout this year’s Forum, with multiple concurrent sessions, allowing attendees the opportunity to choose sessions that are of most interest to them. Content Session presenters will host their session on the Forum's virtual attendee hub, where the audience will attend their presentation live. The audience will be in listen-only mode and will only have access to interact with the Content Session presenter using the Q&A and chat features.

Please direct questions regarding the application or application process to Noshin Ahmed at NAhmed@connecticutchildrens.org.

For more details on session requirements please visit the National Center website:

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Content Sessions (75 min) allow presenters to engage a virtual targeted audience around eight content areas:

Validating Help Me Grow's Impact Model
Use of Data to Achieve Community Change
Advancing Equity in Early Childhood Systems
Accelerating Help Me Grow Implementation
Strengthening an Early Childhood Policy and Advocacy Agenda
Family/Parent Leader Engagement
Novel Partnerships and Integration with other Early Childhood Programs and Services
Community Response to COVID-19

Please answer the questions below to provide details about the session you/your collaborators would like to share as part of the Forum.

Title of Content Session

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Lead Representative Name

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Lead Representative's Email Address

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Lead Representative's Title, Organization

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State/locality of the Lead Presenter:

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Names of Collaborators (if applicable)

Provide at least two (2) learning objectives for the content session.
Learning objectives should describe what participants will know (knowledge) and/or be able to do (skill) as a result of attending the session. The specific learning objectives must be measurable.

**Please use words like: analyze, design, prepare, apply, develop, etc.

For example: Participants will be able to list ways children practice fine motor developmental skills, or participants will be able to demonstrate a strengths-based approach when communicating with parents about a child's behavior.

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Provide a detailed description of the proposed session content and how the session will be structured. **Please do not exceed 400 words.

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Please describe how this proposal specifically addresses equity.

**Note the distinction of the term equity from terms such as 'diversity', which refers to different types of people represented in a particular group, organization, or initiative; 'inclusion', which moves beyond diversity to reflect authentic engagement and participation; and 'equality', in which resources are distributed exactly equally across a population. 'Equity' refers to different individuals possessing what they need in order to reach their full potential. (For more information)

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Please provide at least one question(s) that this session will answer for attendees.

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