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Impact Report
| For plan | Child Care Provider Education (McKinley County) |
| Date | November 19, 2010, 10:56 pm |
| For Objective | Long-term Show long-term objectives |
| Impact Report | McKinley County Child Care Providers Child Care providers in McKinley County need assistance in acquiring continuing education credits in order to keep their home day care service incompliance with the state and federal program regulations and policies. Our goal is to provide quality child development, food safety, and nutrition workshops on a regular basis so that child care provider can maintain their annual 6-12 hours of continuing education needed to keep their jobs and insure the likelihood of providing daycare services for their clientele. We strive to provide high quality, informative, and educational workshops that support literacy for adult learners. Child care providers are classifies into three different groups: private household workers who care for children in the providers home, care providers who care for children at the children’s home, and child workers who work at child care centers (Head Start, preschool, and other childhood programs. Most child care providers generally take care of children from birth to age 12. To qualify for training hours a workshop needs to meet one of the seven competencies; supervision/professionalism, child growth/development and learning, health/safety and Nutrition, developmentally appropriate content, family and community collaboration, learning environment and curriculum implementation, and stress management. We provide training for several agencies including: The Navajo Nation Child Care & Development Fund Program (14 active centers), Connections (45), PAT (Parents as Teachers) (63 individuals), and Project SUCCESS (17 active centers) on a yearly basis. |