SEEDS Program for Infants and Toddlers with prenatal alcohol exposure and their parents/caregivers (SEEDS -IT)

SEEDS - IT Program

Strategies for Enhancing Early Developmental Success - Infants and Toddlers

The 20-week program is a UCLA research study for foster and adoptive parents and relative caregivers and their young children:

• is FREE for eligible families.
• involves both the parent and the child.

• includes a parent education and advocacy group, a parenting skills group, and a parent-child music and play group.

What Can Parents and Caregivers Learn from the SEEDS Program?

• How to find early intervention services for their child.
• How to better understand and respond to their child's feelings and behavior.

• How to have more positive playtime with their child.

Who is eligible?

• Foster parents, adoptive parents and relative caregivers (English-speaking) with a child between 1 and 24 months of age.

• Child has possible prenatal alcohol exposure (may still be eligible if also exposed to other substances).

Families may be paid up to $225 for their participation.

Foster parents and caregivers can receive DCFS training credits.

To learn more, please call 310.206.5254.

Visit SEEDSprogram.blogspot.com

Conducted by:

Blair Paley, Ph.D.

UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences

760 Westwood Plaza, Rm. 48-241, Los Angeles, CA  90024