Information for Child Care Providers

Child Care Resource and Referral: Your Partners in Caregiving

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The Child Care Resource & Referral community in Minnesota offers child care professionals:

Continuing Education/Training
Financial Support & Scholarship Options
Web Resources
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Community Connections and Professional Growth

The Minnesota Child Care Resource & Referral community is here to help you offer the best care available by connecting you with training and professional development resources to keep you and your program thriving.

 

 

Featured Classes for Providers

Professional development opportunities are available throughout Minnesota and online through Eager-to-Learn.

Classes:

To register for these and other courses offered through your local Child Care Resource & Referral agency, please call 1 (888) 291-9811 or visit www.mnstreams.org.

To register for these and other courses offered online, visit www.eagertolearn.org.

Six Keys: Strategies for Promoting Children’s Mental Health

In this class, participants will examine emotional development as it impacts infants, toddlers and preschoolers. We will look at the Six Keys to positive mental health. These include providing responsive caregiving, understanding emotional milestones in children, understanding how a child is 'wired,' teaching children self-regulation skills, supporting and enhancing resilience and teaching friendship skills. Participants will learn strategies for providing a consistent, secure, safe environment, recognizing patterns of temperament and understanding why kids do what they do.

Sensory Processing Disorder

This interactive workshop will describe the characteristics of Sensory Processing Disorder and ways it may impact young children in child care programs. Participants will have the opportunity to examine their own sensory preferences and learn how they meet their individual sensory needs. Children have unique sensory preferences and sometimes those preferences can interfere with learning and social growth and may result in challenging behaviors. Practice strategies for inclusion and learn local resources to share with parents.

Creative Curriculum for Family Child Care, Infant/Toddler or Preschool

Child care providers face a big challenge: they must meet the needs of infants, toddlers,preschoolers, and school-age children in the same facility, their  home. The Creative Curriculum helps child care providers design a developmentally appropriate, quality program in a home environment for each age group.

Making It Work: Fitting Curriculum and Assessment

Children are born with an incredible capacity and desire to learn. The challenge can be finding the best way to provide learning experiences. This workshop series will help child care providers create a plan to  combine intentional activities with spontaneous learning.  Participants will also discuss the growing recognition that we must include assessment  into our programs and how to make it work in each unique setting. 

Shaken Baby Syndrome

Shaken Baby Syndrome is a form of child abuse and describes the serious injuries that can occur when a young child is severely or violently shaken. Child care providers are required to receive these trainings before caring for infants.  Training does not need to be taken in the county in which child care provider is licensed.

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

SIDS is the leading cause of death in infants. Join us as we look at the role we as early childhood professionals have in reducing the risk of SIDS with the infants for whom we care.