Child Care Aware NW Washington
Advancing early learning opportunities in child care settings
*To earn a trauma-informed care award for completing this training, you must have an eligible job role confirmed or verified and be employed by a subsidy provider. Awards are based on available funding.* After taking this training, participants will understand and apply strategies for building relationships and collaborating with families of infants and toddlers; understand […]
Marketing for child care is not just about finding new children and families to serve. It is about defining who you are – what is special, unique and excellent about the programs you provide. Being intention about how you describe your program can help manage expectations and being careful about where your name appears can […]
Challenging behaviors are often the result of unmet needs. Learn more about the important social/emotional needs of children, and what you can do to meet those needs. When needs are met through positive relationships, children will behave better and be ready to learn. This workshop will give participants actionable ways to understand and address challenging […]
This training can help you turn your business dreams into reality! The Business of Child Care is a comprehensive business training that provides participants with crucial business elements necessary to run successful child care programs. This program will help strengthen your business and help you plan for lending opportunities, quality initiatives, facility improvements, social media […]
For Spanish speaking In-Home Family Child Care Providers Only! Venga y únase a nosotros para aprender más sobre la detección del desarrollo universal. En esta sesión se explicarán los beneficios de la evaluación del desarrollo, las ventajas de involucrar a las familias en el proceso de detección y cómo discutir los resultados de la evaluación […]
The research is clear; parent involvement is critical to children’s educational success. Explore strategies for managing difficult conversations, understanding cultural and societal influences that affect families and how to support them, as well as improved overall communication and relationship building. Participants will engage in group activities, small and large group discussion and gain valuable resources […]
This training is 10 hours for Enhancing Quality of Early Learning Year 1, or EQEL. EQEL is a 20-hour training that can be completed over 2 years. The first 5 hours includes: Culturally Responsive Practices and Responsive Caregiving. The second 5 hours includes: Brain Building and Executive Function. This class has two in-person sessions on […]
Are you interested in finding a way to stay calm, be consistent and support children (ages 3-8) when they are challenging you? FLIP IT® is a strategy that offers a simple, kind, and commonsense process to address children’s challenging behavior. The FLIP IT strategy offers a simple, kind, strength-based, commonsense and effective four-step process for […]
Emergent Curriculum is an approach that allows young children's interests to take the lead! In this training, participants will learn about how teachers can implement emergent curriculum. This training will cover: the role of the adult, child, and environment; the importance of play-based learning; how assessment works in an emergent curriculum; and creating plans. This […]
Young children learn through hands-on play! In this free training, we’ll explore how we can promote children’s playful learning with open-ended materials. Participants will engage in play and planning activities to learn actionable ways to support all areas of development, leaving with new ideas to implement in their early learning setting. Participants receive 1.5 STARS […]
Friendship skills are invaluable for children’s present and future success! This interactive workshop gives early learning professionals concrete ways to support children’s social-emotional learning so they can be successful in their daily play and developing relationships with their peers. Participants will reflect on their current approaches; learn to teach children how to enter and sustain […]
Emergent Curriculum is an approach that allows young children's interests to take the lead! In this training, participants will learn about how teachers can implement emergent curriculum. This training will cover: the role of the adult, child, and environment; the importance of play-based learning; how assessment works in an emergent curriculum; and creating plans. This […]
