Supporting Families and Attachment: A Roadmap to Understanding (Online)* (10/26/23 - 11/16/23)
Creating Respectful, Healthy Child Care Environments (United Way) (06/17/23 - 09/05/23)
Discover challenges for parents and child care providers posed by our present culture and how these factors can lead to child abuse and neglect. Explore practical strategies for creating healthy, positive child care home and center environments that can decrease these stressors for parents and other care givers, children, and child care providers. This is…
Read MoreAn Introduction to Ethics for Early Childhood Educators (United Way) (06/17/23 - 09/05/23)
Explore the Code of Ethical Conduct written by the National Association for the Education of Young Children. Discover the core values of the Code of Ethical Conducts to establish a framework of professional responsibilities for adults working with children and their families. Practice the process of solving ethical dilemmas.
Read MoreUnpacking Trauma in Children and Their Families (United Way) (06/17/23 - 09/05/23)
Discover how to support children and their families, recognize the symptoms of chronic stress/trauma; minimize the impact of stress/ trauma through building positive relationships that are predictable and reliable, and learn how to manage their reactions. This is an Anytime Learning Module.
Read MoreGetting to Know the MN ECIPS Domains: Physical and Movement Development (Benton County) (06/19/23 - 09/19/23)
Family Child Care Money Management and Retirement (Benton County) (06/19/23 - 09/19/23)
This is a two-hour training to help family child care providers, child care center workers, and other self-employed individuals to better manage their money and plan for retirement.This course is offered online through AnyTime Learning.
Read MoreSelf-Care for the Early Childhood Educator (Benton County) (06/19/23 - 09/19/23)
Learn why early childhood educators are highly susceptible to stress and burnout and how self-care can help prevent or alleviate it. On an airplane, we are told to put on our own oxygen masks before assisting others with theirs; we need to practice self-care in order to be at our best for the children in…
Read MoreUnpacking Trauma in Children and Their Families (Benton County) (06/19/23 - 09/19/23)
Discover how to support children and their families, recognize the symptoms of chronic stress/trauma; minimize the impact of stress/ trauma through building positive relationships that are predictable and reliable, and learn how to manage their reactions. This is an Anytime Learning Module.
Read MoreInfants, Toddlers and Their Families: Nurturing and Supporting Social Emotional Development (Benton County) (06/19/23 - 09/19/23)
This 2-hour behavior guidance course will meet the licensed family child care annual training requirement. The objectives of the training are to help participants: learn about social and emotional behaviors in infants and toddlers and how this development is impacted by caregivers; and reflect on ways in which culture (perceptions, beliefs, values) influences caregiving practices.
Read MoreActive Supervision: Provider Self-care and Privacy (Benton County) (06/19/23 - 09/19/23)
Meets the Family Child Care provider annual supervision training requirement. This training curriculum will define MN DHS Rule 2 Licensing standards and best practices regarding supervision in family child care settings; identify the effects of provider stress/depression on supervision of and interaction with children; and identify appropriate self-care and privacy strategies that promote effective supervision…
Read MoreInfants and Toddlers: Targeted Strategies to Build Social Emotional Skills (Benton County) (06/19/23 - 09/19/23)
This 2-hour online behavior guidance course will meet the licensed family child care annual training requirement. The objectives of the training are to help participants: use targeted strategies to intentionally build social emotional skills in infants and toddlers, identify how to support parents in promoting routines, and learn how to promote emotional self-regulation skills in…
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