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Child Care Provider Education (Lea County)
Plan Goals
Coordinate and deliver educational workshops for county child care providers throughout the year. The workshops will provide continuing education credits and increase the knowledge level for providers in collaboration with area and regional agencies.
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Child Care Provider Education
Impact Reports
A phone survey of county daycare center directors and family day care centers in Lea County was conducted 6 weeks after providers attended the annual Child Caregivers Workshop. 50% of providers were still employed in the day care industry in Lea County.
392 home based and center based child care providers attended workshops in Bernalillo, Lea, and Otero counties and received 2-6 hours (depending on the county) of continuing education credits. Participants attended Regional Early Childcare and Education Conferences or individual workshops conducted by County Extension offices. At the completion of the workshops, 75- 98% of the participants (depending on the county) increased their knowledge level on a variety of subjects such as discipline, praise, or nutrition education.
According to a phone poll of county daycare center directors and family day care centers, 50% of those attending the annual Child Caregivers Workshop were still employed in the day care industry in Lea County.
At the end of the annual Child Caregivers Workshop, 138 child care providers (56% of the total providers in Lea County) completed five hours of training. The five hours of training is applied to their yearly continuing education hours for employment as child care providers in New Mexico.
Two, one-time workshops were provided to county day care providers on discipline techniques and praising children. At the completion of the discipline workshop, 85% of the participants expressed, through a feedback form, that they felt better equipment to deal with individual discipline problems in their center. At the completion of the praise workshop, 75% of the participants, verbally expressed the knowledge they gained on positive and negative praise.
Two, one-time workshops were provided to county day care providers on discipline techniques and praising children. At the completion of the discipline workshop, 85% of the participants expressed, through a feedback form, that they felt better equipment to deal with individual discipline problems in their center. At the completion of the praise workshop, 75% of the participants, verbally expressed the knowledge they gained on positive and negative praise.
Robin Baker has signed on to support Child Care Provider Education within Lea County.