# Using PICCOLO™ to Observe Developmental Parenting

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Where are parents’ skills the strongest—and how can they be encouraged to better support children’s cognitive, social, and language development? Home visitors can find out in minutes with PICCOLO™, a quick, reliable observational tool for assessing 29 supportive developmental parenting behaviors in 4 domains: affection, responsiveness, encouragement, and teaching.

In this training, learn how to use PICCOLO in your home visiting program to support your work with parents of young children!

## Who Should Attend?
Practitioners who work with parents of infants and young children, and the supervisors of those practitioners.

## What You’ll Learn
Get ready-to-use tips and guidance for:
- increasing the success of your PICCOLO observations
- helping families be comfortable with the process
- effectively video-taping observations
- scoring PICCOLO accurately
- using observation results to build parents’ strengths and bolster positive parenting

Plus, discover how to use PICCOLO to improve services for families and strengthen the quality of your program—and document those results.

### Training Info
#### Number of participants:
Up to 30

#### Seminar Length:
8 hours (can be hosted across 2 days (4 hours per day) or 4 days (2 hours per day)

#### Format:
Zoom

#### Cost for training:
Starting at $4,100

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## Important attendee information
Please read the tabbed sections below for more information about the training and important attendee guidelines.

Attendees should have access to:
- [**PICCOLO™ Provider Starter Kit**](http://products.brookespublishing.com/PICCOLO-Provider-Starter-Kit-P679.aspx) (required)
- [**Developmental Parenting**](http://products.brookespublishing.com/Developmental-Parenting-P566.aspx)
- [**PICCOLO™ Training Videos**](https://products.brookespublishing.com/The-PICCOLOT-Training-Videos-Implementation-and-Scoring-P1806.aspx)

Please place your order at least 4 weeks before the training date to ensure timely delivery of required products.

Your trainer will provide training materials, which must be printed and distributed to individual attendees.

To participate in virtual training successfully, all attendees must:
- Attend on their own device
- Have a working camera and working microphone
- Keep the camera on during the entire training

Please test your equipment and system in advance to ensure that you’re able to log in smoothly and participate on the day of the training.