Providers
Professional Development
The Freelance Instructor Network – A Professional Development Opportunity
Looking for a way for your staff to receive more training and Career Ladder credit hours?
We have an exciting professional development opportunity that will provide a way for programs to arrange on-site training for their staff.
In partnership with Care About Childcare, the Office of Child Care (OCC) created the Freelance Instructor Network (FIN). In this initiative, programs will be able to independently contract with an approved instructor to teach Care About Childcare courses for their employees. Programs will be able to negotiate the time and place of the training with the contracted instructor.
Interested?
1. Contact Care About Childcare at UVU with any questions or to request the FIN contact list for your area by phone 801.863.4589.
2. Contact an instructor on the list and discuss your program’s professional development needs.
3. Independently contract with an instructor to teach a Care About Childcare course for the staff at your program.
What is Child Care Quality System (CCQS)?
Child Care Quality System (CCQS) will help parents make informed choices about the
child care programs their child attends so that the program will better prepare their
child for kindergarten and life. This system will also ensure government child care
subsidies are supporting quality programs.
FIN provides an option to assist programs with meeting their CCQS professional development
goals. We hope you will take advantage of this initiative if it meets your program’s
needs.
Training & Resources
Online Training
Utah Approved Online Career Ladder Courses
Levels 1-3 and 5-8 on the Career Ladder may be earned through approved online clock hours, CEUs, or college credits pertaining to youth and early childhood care and education. Approved online courses are for clock hours, equivalencies for face-to-face Career Ladder classes, and suggested CEU options. Please Note: .1 CEUs = 1 clock hour and 3 college credit hours = 40 clock hours.
Quorum eLearning
In these courses the participants will learn foundational skills to help them to create a classroom where each child can meet their full potential. These courses offer CEUs (Continuing Education Units) and training hours to earn or renew the Child Development Associate (CDA) Credential. Courses are $30 each, or there is an annual membership. Courses are 2-5 hours long. Courses available in English and Spanish.
Early Childhood Investigations Webinars
Early Childhood Investigations offers FREE webinars for early childhood educators. The series is produced by Engagement Strategies, LLC., and is presented by leading authors, experts, and leaders. Their goal is to allow you to participate in conference-quality training without leaving your home, classroom, or office.
Most webinars are 1.5 hours and upon completion of watching you can download a certificate to use towards licensing hours. You must register to access LIVE webinar (face-to-face) and/or to view PAST recordings (non face-to-face).
NAFCC Training Institute Webinars
The National Association for Family Child Care (NAFCC) Training Institute offers webinars on a variety of professional and business development topics.
These webinars are an interactive, fun way for family child care providers to increase their business skills. These webinars are taught by Tom Copeland, the nation's leading expert on the business of family child care. He will deliver a live power point presentation and answer questions during and after the webinar. Participants will receive handouts, a copy of the power point presentation, and a certificate of training for each live webinar attended.
You must register to access LIVE webinar (face-to-face) and/or to view PAST recordings (non face-to-face).
edWeb Webinars
edWeb is a free online community for professional educators, offering networking, resource sharing, collaboration, and professional development webinars.
If you attended the live session, you’ll be emailed a CE certificate within 24 hours of the edWebinar. If you view the recording and would like a CE certificate, join the Classroom Management for Early Learning community and go to the edWebinar Archives folder to take the CE quiz.
Stewards of Children
This prevention training program teaches adults how to prevent, recognize and react responsibly to child sexual abuse. The program is designed for individuals concerned about the safety of children as well as organizations that serve youth. The online version allows individuals to take the training at any time or place, at a pace of their choosing.
It takes approximately 2 hours to complete, and there is a cost per person for the online training.
Prevent Child Abuse Utah
Preventing Child Abuse An Online Course for Adults Working With Youth.
This FREE online course teaches adults working with youth how to protect children from abuse, how to recognize signs that abuse is occurring and prevent it, how to receive abuse disclosures and who disclosures or concerns should be reported to. It only takes 30 minutes to protect the children in your life. Certificate of completion will only be issued to the registered course participant. Make the Promise to Protect.
Lending Library
We have a library full of resources for child care providers.
Resources include but are not limited to toys, resource books,
children's literature, themed kits, DVDs, and CDs.
Just ask us what you want to learn and we welcome your suggestions.
Call 801-863-4589, if you have any questions.
Resource Room
Hours
1
During Public Office Hours
CALL FIRST! We are sometime closed for off-site meetings and trainings or campus closures.
2
Before Training Courses: Providers may come 15 minutes before training courses to use the die cuts.
3
The laminator and Cricut machine are only available for use during public office hours and Resource Nights (second Tuesday of every month). You can leave a small amount of items to be laminated by a CAC-UVU staff. Please leave the items, with your name, child care facility, and phone number, in the drop box at the office entrance.
Materials
- Die Cuts
- Lamination
- Bulletin Board Paper
- Lending Library
Resource Room Policy
- Lamination 30 ft. and bulletin board paper 30 ft. (per Licensed Center Classroom & Administration, FFN, or Exempt Programs)
- Lamination 60 ft. and bulletin board paper 60 ft. (Licensed Family with capacity up to 8, Residential Certificate , or Community Partners)
- Lamination 96 ft. and bulletin board paper 60 ft. (Licensed Family with capacity 8 to 16)
When the annual limits have been reached, no more lamination and bulletin board paper
will be available for that fiscal year.
Please call 801-863-8589 to let us know you'll be stopping in.
To update your program's information
with Care About Childcare
please contact us 801.863.8589.
Care About Childcare (CAC) at Utah Valley University (UVU) is funded from the Department of Workforce Services, Office of Child Care through the Child Care and Development Block Grant.
