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In Ontario: Home child care providers and community agencies in Halton have come together to coordinate and facilitate the delivery of the Family Day Care Training Program. These individuals have developed terms of reference, a mission statement and training plans for the development and delivery of the three levels of training. This group believes that this training series will As part of the Halton Resource Connection education and training team, a group of dedicated individuals have worked together to offer Level 2 training for both the north and south areas of Halton beginning in February 2006. Level 3 will begin in September 2006. We look forward to the growth and development of home child care providers and increased recognition of the providers who participate in this series. If anyone would like further information about this series, please contact the Halton Resource Connection at (905) 875-4600. The brochure for this training is available at www.thrc.ca/educationtraining.html. In Ontario: New! Meeting the Challenge Online Register Now!
Starting this fall, CCCF is taking its first steps towards making our training materials and resources more accessible for individuals across Canada and beyond with our online training course, Meeting the Challenge Online. This eight-unit course expands on the best-selling publication Meeting the Challenge: Effective Strategies for Challenging Behaviours in Early Childhood Environments, written by Barbara Kaiser and Judy Rasminsky. The online course was designed to guide early childhood practitioners and others who work with young children as they explore the causes and prevention of children’s challenging behaviours and develop appropriate responses to them. The course will be available in English and French starting in fall 2006. Be sure to keep up-to-date on this exciting new program by checking the Meeting the Challenge Online website for details on fees, start dates and registration information. If you are interested in taking the Meeting the Challenge Online training course, visit www.cccf-fcsge.ca/subsites/mtc/home_en.htm,download the brochure and interest form. Fax or mail the form to CCCF. For more information, contact mtcinfo@cccf-fcsge.ca. In Ontario:
Congratulations to all of you for completing Level 1 of the Family Child Care Training Program! In 2003, Kawartha Child Care Services partnered with the Ontario Early Years Centre, submitted a proposal to the provincial government and received a grant. As part of this proposal we offered the Canadian Child Care Federation’s Family Child Care Training Program – Level 1. Over the course of the next three years we offered this course six times and provided training to 90 participants in and around the Peterborough community. We were overwhelmed with the dedication of the participants. Over 84 percent of the participants completed all assignments and quizzes and were issued a certificate of completion. Friendships were formed, networking happened; it was such a positive experience for all those involved. The units covered in Level 1 are Your Child Care Home, Safety, Health, Nutrition, Child Development, Child Guidance, Helping Children Grow and Develop, The Child Care Day, The Business of Family Child Care, Starting Off Right, Partnerships and Parents and Connecting with the Community. All participants had the opportunity to attend first aid training, which included infant and child CPR. There was no cost to the participant for this training. We received comments from participants that they could not believe that this type of training was free. We also had funding to provide the participants with over $300 worth of safety products such as fire extinguishers, smoke detectors, safety locks, resources, creative supplies and toys and games. Each week the participants left with something. Our trainers Karen Cambridge, Jacqueline Burke, Trish Bucholtz and Jackie Davies did an excellent job in facilitating the training. The trainers brought years of expertise in the home child care field. We had guest speakers from the health unit and the local fire department. Faith Bellemy and Ann Cathcart-Andrews were the supervisors for this project. Many participants are very interested in Level 2 of the training and we are currently looking at funding options in order to offer this next level. Here are a few of the comments we received from training participants: “My expectations were so far surpassed. This course sounded good but I didn’t realize how amazing it would be.” “I have learned so much from this course. I will use what I have learned for many years to come.” “This training was unbelievable.” “I loved every night; I am going to miss attending each week.”
If you have any questions about this project, please contact Ann Cathcart-Andrews, Kawartha Child Care Services, at hrprogdirect@kawarthachildcare.com. In Manitoba: A message from Maxine Balbon, Red River College New! This spring, 23 family child care providers have enrolled in the Family Child Care Training Program, which will run from April 1, through to June 17, 2006. So far, we have had a speaker from the City of Winnipeg Emergency Preparedness Program who discussed how family child care providers can prepare for an emergency. It was very informative and helpful to those developing an emergency response plan for their family child care homes. Other speakers are a physiotherapist, a behaviour management specialist and child development specialist. The course also includes a visit to other providers in the area and the course. The program being run out of the Family Centre of Winnipeg is ongoing and should wrap up the end of June 2006. Red River College is currently using the second level of the Family Child Care Training Program as a main curriculum, supplemented by additional materials to meet Manitoba’s current regulations. The 40-hour course for licensed family child care providers has been offered at Red River College’s distance education and continuing education departments since fall 2004. In Ontario: A message from Andrea Gingras, Child Care Resource Network of Ottawa National Child Care Training in Ottawa Join Sue Westwell for a repeat of these popular workshops: Caring for the Caregiver, Where Do We Fit, and Balancing Work and Family. We look at daily stresses for caregivers, where we fit in the grand scheme of things and how we balance our own family life along with our work. Hand-out fee: $5.00 Tuesdays: May 9, 16, 23; 6:45-8:45 pm; Cosmic Adventures For more information, visit http://www.ccprn.com or contact us at admin@ccprn.com or (613) 749-5211.
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