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Intensive Technical Assistance Projects

Get one-on-one intensive training through our intensive technical assistance.

Infant/Toddler Technical Assistance Center

The Infant/Toddler Technical Assistance Network, funded by the New York State Office of Children and Family Services, is an initiative aimed at supporting high quality infant and toddler care. The Network offers support to Family Child Care Programs, Group Family Child Care Programs and Child Care Centers serving infants and toddlers.

The Infant/toddler Specialist can offer the following ongoing services for FREE in Sullivan County:

• Phone and in-person support on a variety of issues:
• Age Appropriate Behavior Management Techniques
• Responsive care giving
• Understanding the New York State Child Care Regulations.
• Developmentally Appropriate Practice For Infants and Toddlers
• Infant – Toddler Development and Behavior
• Assistance Answering Parent Questions About Their Infant Or Toddler

Visits To Your Program To Work On A Quality Improvement Project

• Resources or Tip Sheets
• Starting Up Your Infant/Toddler Program Including Help Setting Up Your Space
• Assistance With Continuity of Care Classroom Waivers
• Assistance with Freedom of Movement Certification For “Container Free” Program

For more information contact by calling Kelsey Stoddard, Infant Toddler Specialist (845) 292-7166 X305 or email kstoddard@scchildcare.com.

Infant Toddler Mental Health Consultant – New for 2020

Mental health consultation is an opportunity for early care and education and mental health providers to work together to make a childcare setting the best place it can be. This will be provided at no cost to the program, but rather though funding providing by the NYS Office for Children & Family Services. Together, we will:

• Use observation tools to explore the social and emotional experience for your child and his or her peers in that environment.
• Review the outcomes of the observation tools, combined with what we are already doing well to create a plan to continue to improve our setting for you and your child(ren).
• Problem solve, learn new skills, and build our reflective capacity to best care for your child while they are in our care.

It is important to know that this is not therapy or a direct service, this is a service to support the adults caring for our children to benefit children.

Earn your Child Development Associate

CDA is a nationally recognized credential. See our training calendar for CDA training topics offered. For more information on completion of your credential go to The Council for Professional Recognition website.

Training opportunities

See our provider education page for more information.

Program Accreditation

Accreditation provides child care professionals with performance indicators that guide high quality program planning and standards. Accreditation also communicates a child care program’s commitment to self-study, review and improvement to both families and the community. The Accreditation process requires a program to apply with the appropriate accreditation agency, meet quality standards, and complete a self-study/review.

Accreditation Links:

For Centers: The National Association for the Education of Young Children
For School-age Programs: After School Works! NY
For Family or Group Family Programs: The National Association of Family Child Care
Association of New York State, Inc.

* Contact our training department if you are interested in the accreditation process.

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