Child Care Foundational Trainings

Our Child Care Foundational Trainings are designed to equip individuals with the essential knowledge, skills, and confidence needed to provide high-quality care in early childhood settings. These courses offer a strong professional starting point, guiding participants through core concepts, best practices, and hands-on strategies for supporting children and families.

  • Introduction to the Child Care Profession (50 hours)
  • Skills & Strategies for the Child Care Teacher (50 hours)
  • Fundamentals of Family Child Care (30 hours)
  • Fundamentals of infant and Toddler Care (50 hours)

Abusive Head Trauma for Child Care Providers
This course provides essential information on recognizing, preventing, and responding to abusive head trauma in infants and young children. Participants will learn about risk factors, signs and symptoms, and strategies for creating safe, supportive environments in child care settings. Completion of this training meets state licensing
requirements.

Continuing Education Trainings offered

Supporting Every Learner-Embracing All Abilities (2 hours)In this course we will explore the 13 disability areas under IDEA, their characteristics and better ways to support children in our programs with disabilities by providing the appropriate support, accommodations and modifications.

Mastering the Art of Family Child Care Success (4 hours)Mastering the Art of Family Child Care Success is a short course designed for an individual looking to start their own family child care center or a provider that is already in business. This course will highlight and discuss important areas to maintain a successful business such as licensing, finance, marketing, building community relationships, curriculum, etc.

Mastering Behavior Guidance in Diverse Environments (4 hours) In this course we will explore our understanding of guiding positive behavior, and how we as professionals through our background and experiences influence how we guide the behavior of the children in our care. We will work together to develop strategies for implementing positive behavior guidance through changes in daily routines, environment and program policies.

Training can also be developed to meet the needs of the customers program training based on the needs of the program.

Contact Phases for more information on school based professional development and conference presentation requests.