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Children's Aid & Family Service
CCR Training Programs
- - - Family Child Care- - -
This orientation is a pre-service for adults hoping to open their own business
of Family Child Care or are interested in becoming a Certified Assistant. Participants will receive information regarding the Department of Early Education and Care (EEC) regulations, the licensing procedure, insurance options, food programs, Resources & Referral Agency listing, support groups for providers, etc. EEC has a pre-orientation where participants can gather information before attending the face to face orientation. It is available at www.eec.state.ma.us. The online pre-orientation is strongly recommended.
NOTE: All English orientations will be held at Child Care Resources from
6:00—9:00 p.m. The fee for each orientation is $15. per person.
Date: Tuesday, September 30, 2008, English & Spanish
Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2008, English Only
Date: Thursday, November 20, 2008, English & Spanish
Date: Tuesday, December 16, 2008, English OnlyFAMILY CHILD CARE PLUS ORIENTATION
Required three hour training for Family Child Care Providers applying for the Family Child Care License (6+2). In order to be eligible for this license, you must have 2 years of family child care experience. The training will include policies, environments, planning, management, and development of school age.
NOTE: This orientation will be held at Child Care Resources. The fee for the orientation is $15. per person.
Date: Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Time: 6:00—9:00 p.m.
INTRODUCTION TO LARGE FAMILY CHILD CARE
This orientation is required for providers applying for a Large Family Child Care License to care for up to ten children. In order to be eligible to apply for this license, you must be at least 21 years or older, have 3 years of experience as a licensed provider and have a certified assistant who meets EEC licensing requirements.
NOTE: Child Care Resources does not have this orientation scheduled at this time. Please visit EEC’s website (www.eec.state.ma.us) and look under Resources & Referral Agencies to see what they have available.
Heart Saver CPR & First Aid/Child Safety Course
The heart saver CPR course is designed to teach CPR and relief of foreign-body airway obstruction (FBAO) to all lay rescuers, particularly those who are expected to respond to emergencies in the workplace. This course teaches adult, child and infant CPR, mouth-to-mouth ventilation and rescue breathing using barrier devices. NOTE: The American Heart Association FA class is good for 2 years. Therefore, you will need to renew every two years. All classes will be held from 6:00—10:00 p.m.
CPR—FIRST NIGHT
FA—SECOND NIGHT
Heart Saver CPR Only—$35.00
First Aid Only—$35.00
Combined—$70.00
Classes begin promptly at 6:00 p.m.
There will be no late admittance!
Mondays, September 8 & 22, 2008
Place: Child Care Resources, Fitchburg
Mondays, October 20 & 27, 2008
Place: Mount Wachusett Community College (Room 255), Gardner
Mondays, November 3 & 10, 2008
Place: Child Care Resources, Fitchburg
Mondays, December 1 & 15, 2008
Place: Mount Wachusett Community College (Room 255), Gardner
- - - Infant & Toddler Trainings - - -
Toddler Conflict
Use Your Words -- What Words?
Toddler conflict is a daily part of any classroom of children who are striving for autonomy and independence. How can we expect toddlers to resolve their differences when they can’t even talk? We often help preschoolers by asking them to, “Use your words.” What about the toddler that has no words yet to use? This workshop will cover: understanding and appreciating toddlers, characteristics of toddler play, guidelines for supporting play, supporting toddlers in conflict, and environmental considerations that influence conflict. Come and bring your favorite examples of conflict in your room so we can help you gain the skills you need to support toddlers in conflict.
Date: Thursday, October 16, 2008
Presenter: Rena Arcaro, Early Education Consultant
Time: 6:30—8:30 p.m.
Cost: $20.00
Place: Guild of St. Agnes, Gardner
Healthy Social/Emotional Growth in Infants & Toddlers
From the earliest days of child care in this country, providers have valued and supported healthy physical development in children. In recent years, toy manufacturers have touted the benefits of their products on infant and toddler brain and cognitive development. Parents and caregivers are compelled to offer children these toys/activities. Where is social emotional development in this mix? Helping children find success in relating to adults and other children and building a healthy sense of self is perhaps one of the vital components of all development.
Date: Thursday, November 20, 2008
Presenter: Dotty Alexander, Early Education Consultant
Time: 6:30—8:30 p.m.
Cost: $20.00
Place: Guild of St. Agnes, Gardner
This interactive and hands-on workshop will focus on infant and toddler curriculum. Some topics to be discussed are: early childhood theories, child development, brain development, environments that foster independent learning, observation, respectful care giving, parental issues, offering real choices and consistency. The importance of play in the social, emotional, physical, and cognitive development of the child will be stressed. The areas of story time, discovery, sensory, block play, dramatic play, manipulatives, sand/water, nutrition, and routines. Hands-on activities will be offered and handouts will be given.
Date: Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Presenter: Diane Christian, M.Ed.
Time: 6:30—8:30 p.m.
Cost: $20.00
Place: Children's Aid & Family Service Child Care Center, Fitchburg
- - - Preschool Trainings - - -
This training is geared to exposing children to early math and science skills and concepts. We will discuss how to adapt the curriculum and materials already in your environment (home, classroom, child care center, playground, etc.) to expose children to early math and science skills and concepts.
Date: Monday, October 6, 2008
Presenter: Inclusion Facilitators, Early Education Consultants
Time: 6:30—8:30 p.m.
Cost: $20.00
Place: Messiah Lutheran Preschool, Fitchburg
Sharing the Value of Play and Observation
This workshop is designed for educators to share the value of play in children’s education as well as the importance of observing children at play. What do children learn through play? What are the ingredients of great interactions with children? Why should educators observe children’s play and how can that help with accurate assessment of children’s development? How can we relay the value of play to parents?
Date: Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Presenter: Faith Nickolas, Early Education Consultant
Time: 6:30—8:30 p.m.
Cost: $20.00
Place: Klever Kids Childcare Center, Gardner
This training is to help you learn techniques to add new life to classic stories.
We will discuss how to use sign language, music, drama, crafts and even snacks and manipulatives to breathe new life into stories that may have become too familiar to students and caregivers. Please bring your favorite children’s story book.
Date: Monday, November 10, 2008
Presenter: Inclusion Facilitators, Early Education Consultants
Time: 6:30—8:30 p.m.
Cost: $20.00
Place: Adventure Kids Child Care Center, Fitchburg
- - - School-Age Trainings - - -
Adolescent Development: Stages of Growth & Associated Tasks
As professionals working with youth, we need to understand and utilize normal stages of growth and development. In this workshop we will explore youth as an age and life stage. We will examine adolescence as current research defines it and the implications this research has on our work with young people.
Date: Thursday, October 30, 2008
Presenter: Suzanne Buglione, M.Ed.
Time: 6:30—8:30 p.m.
Cost: $20.00
Place: Guild of St. Agnes, Fitchburg
Building Your School-Aged Children's Leadership Skills
All of us are surely committed to the development of strong, successful youth. How does youth leadership contribute to this outcome? What can we expect of youth leaders and how can we help them build the necessary skills to take on leadership roles successfully? In this workshop, we will explore the answers to these questions.
Date: Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Presenters: Suzanne Buglione, M.Ed.
Time: 6:30—8:30 p.m.
Cost: $20.00
Place: Guild of St. Agnes, Fitchburg
In this interactive workshop, the focus will be on resilience, which is the process by which children overcome great stress and adversity. Resiliency will be defined and qualities of resilience will be discussed. Internal and external factors affecting resiliency will be discussed. We will also discuss protective factors and risk factors. Every teacher should be equipped with the ability to teach their students to bounce back from trauma, to develop clear and realistic goals to solve problems, and to treat themselves and others with respect. The forty assets that a child needs to be successful will be highlighted. This is a must- attend workshop to foster self-esteem, strength, hope, empathy, and optimism
in children.
Date: Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Presenters: Diane Christian, M.Ed.
Time: 6:30—8:30 p.m.
Cost: $20.00
Place: Child Care Resources, Fitchburg
- - - Health Needs Training- - -
You're Allergic to What? Food & Environmental Allergies
Food & environmental allergies have become more common in children and can greatly affect how you run your daycare. Learn about the most common food and environmental allergens and how to safely care for a child with allergies in your daycare. The seminar will explore allergy causes, triggers, symptoms, and treatments. Recognition, evaluation, and emergency treatment for severe allergic reactions will be covered. Administration of the epinephrine pen will be taught and practiced by all participants.
Date: Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Presenter: Health Alliance, Take Charge
Time: 6:30—8:30 p.m.
Cost: $20.00
Place: Rainbow Preschool, Townsend
Healthy Nutrition and Exercise in Daycare
Overweight and obese children are growing at an alarming rate. These children are also becoming at risk for heart disease as well as other diseases. Overweight children are also more likely to be overweight adults. Successfully preventing or treating excess weight in childhood will improve health and may reduce the risk of developing diseases in childhood and adulthood. Learn ways to promote good health habits in your daycare, with an emphasis on exercise and nutrition in children.
Date: Thursday, October 23, 2008
Presenter: Health Alliance, Take Charge
Time: 6:30—8:30 p.m.
Cost: $20.00
Place: Child Care Resources, Fitchburg
Children with Medical Conditions
This workshop will present an overview of medical conditions sometimes seen in children attending family- or center-based childcare. Specific diagnoses discussed will include asthma, diabetes, seizure disorders, and feeding disorders. Issues surrounding the care of these children such as medication administration, use of an epipen, and tube feeding will be presented. The need for appropriate policies and training for staff will be a focus of discussion. The training will conclude with a presentation of resources that are available to support childcare staff in caring for a child having these special needs.
Date: Thursday, November 6, 2008
Presenter: Vicky Obara, RN
Time: 6:30—8:30 p.m.
Cost: $20.00
Place: Child Care Resources, Fitchburg
- - - DIRECTORS & ADMINISTRATORS- - -
Creating a Community of Problem Solvers: Winners not Whiners
Could you use policies, procedures, and practices to put an end to whining, gossip, and negativity? Could you benefit from a proven 5-step process for effective supervision of difficult staff members? Have you wanted to feel more confident confronting inappropriate behavior when it happens (80% of early childhood leaders are conflict-avoidant)? Would you like to learn how to turn whining into problem-solving? Bring the butterflies in your stomach and expect to leave with a belly laugh full of confidence.
Date: Thursday, December 4, 2008
Presenter: Holly Elissa Bruno, MA JD
Time: 6:30—8:30 p.m.
Cost: $25.00
Place: Leominster Public Library
Holly Elissa Bruno, author, teacher, and keynote speaker in early childhood education leadership, describes herself as a "recovering" attorney. Having worked as Assistant Attorney General for the state of Maine, Holly Elissa was selected "outstanding professor" at the University of Maine-Augusta, where she also served as Dean of Faculty. An Alumna of Harvard University's Institute for Educational Management, Holly Elissa teaches leadership and management courses for Wheelock College across the country. Her articles have been published in Child Care Exchange and NAEYC's Young Children journal. Her keynotes have delighted audiences from Budapest to Minneapolis, Tulsa to Tampa, as have her featured presentations at NAEYC, Smart Start, and regional Head Start annual conferences. For Holly Elissa, working with adults is as inspirational as working with children.
Special Needs and Behavior of Young Homeless Children
Nationwide, there are more than 600,000 homeless preschool-aged children.
In Massachusetts, this number is at least 10,000. Virtually all qualify for early education subsidies, including Head Start, yet less than half in Mass. are served by early education providers each year. In order to address this problem, early childhood teachers, administrators, shelter staff, and other professionals need access to training and technical assistance from experts in early education for homeless children, and need to do outreach to these children. The training objectives are: trauma and loss experienced by young homeless children from being homeless, special needs young homeless children may have as a result of this trauma and loss, special behaviors young homeless children may exhibit as a result of the trauma and loss from being homeless, and importance of order for children dealing with trauma and ways to help.
Date: Thursday, October 2, 2008
Presenter: Shirley Fan-Chan, Horizons for Homeless Children
Time: 6:30—8:30 p.m.
Cost: $20.00
Place: Leominster Public Library
- - - CEU SERIES- - -
Connecting Creativity, the Arts & Young Children
Young children use their imaginations as they make their way through their days in our early childhood settings. They use all of their senses to explore the world. In environments that support creativity, children may explore open-ended materials to create a collage, dance to music, and pretend with scarves and streamers. Early childhood educators support creative expression by: arranging environments to encourage exploration and experimentation, offering a variety of materials and activities that promote self-expression and encouraging and respecting children's ideas. This four-session course will examine the connection of creativity and young children through the arts, music and movement, and the learning environment. We will demonstrate how all aspects of the curriculum offer opportunities for creativity. Through small groups, lecture, and actively engaging in the process of creating, performing, and responding to quality arts experiences as an adult learner. A basic understanding of a child's cognitive, physical, and socio-emotional development will be included so that participants will be able to develop arts experiences for young children that reflect their own culture and daily life experiences.
USING YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF CHILD DEVELOPMENT TO ENCOURAGE CREATIVITY
Date: Thursday, October 30, 2008
OFFERING ART EXPERIENCES THAT INVITE EXPLORATION AND EXPERIMENTATION
Date: Thursday, November 6, 2008
ENCOURAGING SELF-EXPRESSION THROUGH MUSIC, MOVEMENT, AND DRAMATIC PLAY
Date: Thursday, November 13, 2008
CONNECTING THE ARTS WITH STANDARDS, CURRICULUM PLANNING, WORKING WITH PARENTS
Date: Thursday, November 20, 2008
Presenter: Maureen Provost, M.Ed.
Time: 6:30—9:00 p.m.
Cost: $75.00, $20.00 for individual workshops
Place: Mount Wachusett Community College, Gardner (Garrison Building)
NOTE: Participants will need to attend all four sessions in order to receive 1.0 CEU.
Directions to Child Care Resources Training Sites
ADVENTURE KIDS CHILD CARE CENTER, 1400 JOHN FITCH HWY, FITCHBURG
Route 2 to Exit 31B. At 3rd set of lights, take a right onto Bemis Road. Continue straight through four sets of lights past the stores and Wallace Civic Center. Continue through blinking light and Adventure Kids is about 1 mile on your right. (Driveway is up on a hill).
CHILD CARE RESOURCES, 76 SUMMER STREET, SUITE 345, FITCHBURG
Route 2 to Exit 31 B (Route 12N). At 4th set of light, take a right onto Harvard Street. Go across the bridge to the next set of lights. Take a left onto Summer Street. Crown Point Office Building is approximately 1/4 mile on right.
CHILDREN'S AID & FAMILY SERVICE CHILD CARE CENTER,
75 DAY STREET, FITCHBURG
Route 2 to Exit 31B (Route 12 Fitchburg Exit). Continue on Route 12 toward Fitchburg Center. Go right over bridge at 2A where Route 12 bears left.
(Just after Central Plaza ). At lights on Main Street, cross Main to Day Street.
The center is 1/4 mile up Day Street on the right.
GUILD OF ST. AGNES, 62 DOVER STREET, FITCHBURG
Route 2 to Exit 31B (Route 12 N). At the 3rd set of lights, take right onto
Bemis Road. Take right at the lights onto Airport Road (at Charles Park Plaza). Take 2nd right onto Sheridan Street. The Guild is 1st building on right after Benjamin Electric.
GUILD OF ST. AGNES, 28 PEARLY LANE, GARDNER Route 2 to 140 N (Exit 24 B). Continue on 140 until intersection with Route 101. Take a right onto route 101. Take a left onto Pearly Lane (after church on corner). Continue down Pearly Lane. The Guild is housed in the Visiting Nurses’ Association Building on your left.
KIDS CITY CHILD CARE CENTER, 66 JOHN FITCH HIGHWAY, FITCHBURG
Route 2 to Exit 31 B (Route 12 N). At 3rd set of lights, take a right onto Bemis Road. Go under railroad bridge and keep going straight through set of lights onto John Fitch Highway to CAP Plaza on right.
KLEVER KIDS, 1055 WEST STREET, GARDNER
Take Route 2 to the Route 68 exit. Follow Route 68 North through Gardner. At center, take a left, following signs for Route 68 North. Klever Kids is on the right, just before the Gardner/Templeton line.
LEOMINSTER PUBLIC LIBRARY, 30 WEST STREET, LEOMINSTER
Route 12 (North Main Street), from points north, heading south into Leominster: After you cross over Route 2, go through 6 sets of traffic lights. After the 6th set of traffic lights, you will be at the common in the downtown area. Continue straight through the next set of lights (with Subway on the corner) onto Pleasant Street. Take next right onto Pearl Street. Look for the entrance to the library parking lot on the right-hand side midway down the block.
REMINDER: Library Meeting Guidelines: Your meeting is to be confined to the room that you have reserved, you may not move furniture from another room, attendees must make/take cell phone calls outside of the building, not in the hallways, attendees must respect the fact that they are in a public library. Please remember that food or beverages are not allowed in the meeting rooms without prior permission.
MESSIAH LUTHERAN PRESCHOOL & LEARNING CENTER,
780 RINDGE ROAD, FITCHBURG
Route 2 to Exit 31B. At 3rd set of lights, take a right onto Bemis Road. Continue straight through four full sets of lights (past stores and Wallace Planetarium on your right). Continue straight through blinking light until you get to the stop sign. Go straight, this will be Rindge Road. One half mile down Rindge Road on the
left-hand side.
MOUNT WACHUSETT COMMUNITY COLLEGE, 444 GREEN STREET, GARDNER Route 2 to 140 N (Exit 24B). Take 140 for 3 miles through two sets of lights. 100 yards after 2nd light, take a left onto Matthews Street. College is 1 mile down on right.
PICCOLO MONDO CCC, 680 MECHANIC STREET, SUITE 822, LEOMINSTER
From Route 2 take Mechanic Street Exit. At lights at back entrance to Sears Town Mall, turn left onto Mechanic Street. Pass landfill on left and then take 2nd left to Crossroads Office Park entrance. Piccolo Mondo Child Care Center is the building with the playground in front.
RAINBOW PRESCHOOL & CHILD CARE CENTER, 27 MAIN STREET, TOWNSEND
Route 119, near North Middlesex Regional High School. Route 2A in Lunenburg to Route 13 Townsend. Follow Route 13 to set of lights. Take a right onto Route 119 (Main Street) follow to 27 Main Street.
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