Getting Started With Farm to Early Care (09/16/24 - 12/31/24)
Define “Farm to Early Care”, including three main components: gardening, nutrition education, and local food purchasing. Identify relevant resources to utilize farm to early care-related content in participants’ unique settings. Consider ways to incorporate food and nutrition into education, exploration, and engaging activities for children.
Read MoreFamily Child Care Money Management and Retirement (09/16/24 - 12/31/24)
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 MoreFamily Child Care Marketing (09/16/24 - 12/31/24)
This training provides family-based child care providers with information to promote, advertise and market their business services to ensure sustainability and business growth. This is an online course through the Anytime Learning Program
Read MoreFamily Child Care Contracts and Policies (09/16/24 - 12/31/24)
This training provides family-based child care providers with information on creating and executing contracts and policies for the business and its clients in order to be compliant to licensing standards and to ensure clients understand the protocols and policies in place for the business, This is an online course offered through Anytime Learning
Read MoreEngaging and Communicating with Families (09/16/24 - 12/31/24)
Explore the value of helping families become more involved and engaged in child care programs and learn specific techniques for accomplishing this. Practice a variety of techniques for strengthening communication with the families of the children you care for.
Read MoreEmergency Preparedness: Creating an Effective Plan (09/16/24 - 12/31/24)
Early Childhood Screening; What It’s All About (09/16/24 - 12/31/24)
Everything you need to know about early childhood screening so you can properly inform child care providers and parents.
Read MoreDevelopmentally Appropriate Behavior Guidance (09/16/24 - 12/31/24)
Meets the four-hour preservice Child Development/Behavior Guidance training requirement for Family Child Care Providers. This training curriculum will address key facts about early brain development; define social emotional development and describe how it unfolds in the context of relationships; examine how environments affect children’s behaviors; and identify some concrete strategies for preventing behavioral challenges
Read MoreCulturally Informed Practice in Early Childhood (09/16/24 - 12/31/24)
Develop awareness of culturally informed practices by introducing elements that guide the practice in early childhood settings. Discover how these quality practices can support and enhance your program.
Read MoreCreating Respectful, Healthy Child Care Environments (09/16/24 - 12/31/24)
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…
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