Opportunities to develop skills, acquire new knowledge, and achieve practical levels of interacting and communicating with young children and their families.
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Our Summer Resource List features fun, local places to spend time with your children.
Opportunity Fund gives loans (not grants) to providers in the greater SF Bay Area, and offers free business advice from an experienced consultant.
Parent Support
Find direct services, training, materials and research concerning families in which a child, parent or grandparent has a disability or medical issue.
Child Care Licensing Information
Learn about licensing requirements and get licensed.
Advocacy
Find out what's being done to improve life for young children and their families.
Learn about national advocacy on behalf of children.
Get legal tools which can affect change for child care.
Check out current California legislation.
Try the printed advocacy tools for the California Legislature.
Find out how to do more for children.
Professional and Research Information
Find out about how to prevent, detect and respond to child abuse. The Child Abuse Prevention Council also provides a thorough guide for mandated reporters, including child care providers, to report cases of suspected child abuse.
Get information about this campaign which helps educate parents on the new discoveries in brain and early childhood development.
Get information and research regarding infants and toddlers.
Find out about bringing fair wages to those who provide child care in the United States.
Get information about how mentoring is available for improving the quality of child care in California.
Find local information on projects and policy issues.
Ask your Family Child Care business and tax questions of Tom Copeland, attorney and seasoned family child care advocate. In partnership with the National Family Child Care Association (NAFCC), Tom Copeland will answer (free of charge) queries around record keeping, taxes, marketing, contracts, legal, insurance, money management, and retirement planning.
Health and Safety Issues in Child Care
Find information on how to identify potentially harmful environmental contaminants in child care settings and steps you can take to reduce or eliminate those hazards.
Learn about health and safety issues in child care, such as health promotion, serving children with special needs, nutrition, infant-toddler development, car seat safety, lead poisoning and many other issues. The Child Care Healthline (800/333-3212) provides information in English and Spanish.
Professional Development and Online Education
The Center for Excellence in Child Development contributes to the quality of care offered to young children through the delivery of training and technical assistance at all levels of early care and education organizations.
An educational publishing company serving the early childhood community exclusively, bringing curriculum, assessment, professional development, and family connection resources to programs serving children from birth through kindergarten.
Online Associate degrees, highly interactive and low-cost courses. Courses require no on-campus meetings and are not self-paced. Classes encourage interaction with your instructor and peers in a structured environment.
Two-year multi-lingual, multi-cultural training internship provides post-masters mental health interns with a specialization in culturally competent early childhood mental health.
Find out what colleges and/or institutions of high education offer degrees or other programs in ECE. This directory is a partial listing of online education courses. Inclusion does not imply endorsement by Exchange.
Online ECE courses.
Community-based training for child care providers in Eastern Alameda County.
Online courses and ECE certification program.
Child Care Resources strives to meet the training needs of early childhood professionals through quality online training that is available on-demand, around the clock.
Child Development program online.
CDTC promotes high quality early education to California's children and families by providing financial and technical assistance to child development students and professionals.
From early childhood mental health to training for child care professionals, WestEd addresses the well-being of all children and their families, including those with disabilities.
The purpose of the CPIN is to provide professional development and technical assistance to preschool teachers and administrators to ensure preschool children are ready for school.
Become a Montessori teacher! Contra Costa College offers Montessori Education Courses and Certificate Programs at the early childhood level- the only community college in California to do so. Montessori teachers help to develop autonomous, competent, caring, responsible individuals, who are lifelong learners. Affordable tuition and evening classes that fit into your busy schedule, courses offered in the Summer, Fall and Spring Semesters. Register today!
Community based, e-learning program with courses designed to provide quality, accessible, educational opportunities for people who care for children.
With money from California's Proposition 10 tobacco tax we pay for Every Child Counts, a program that supports health, development and well-being of our youngest children through their first five years.
Community-based training for child care providers in Southern Alameda County
Through our early childhood mental health programs, staff members consult with and guide both parents and educators on child development issues.
Bringing out the best in children means bringing out the best in educators...and Lakeshore's professional development sessions give you the opportunity to do just that.
The California Institute for Dance Learning (CIDL) was founded in 2005 as the "pedagogy engine" of Luna Kids Dance. This professional development institute allows Luna to fulfill its mission of "bringing all children to dance" by providing comprehensive education and support to all who teach dance.
Provides educators and families culturally competent resources and strategies for our increasingly diverse society.
Research-based music and movement program that provides developmentally appropriate music-making activities for children ages birth through kindergarten.
Develop your skills as an owner, director, administrator, emerging leader or other professional dedicated to early care and education.
Meet others throughout the nation in the field and enjoy professional development and advocacy.
Learn more about training and technical assistance offered directly to infant/toddler care teachers and child care programs.
Playworks also offers comprehensive training and technical support to schools, districts and communities that wish to bring safe, inclusive play to children.
Meet others in the field and enjoy professional development and advocacy.
The mission of the Montessori Program at Saint Mary's College is to prepare caring and competent teachers to work with a diverse population of children in preschool and the elementary grades.
Join other family child care providers for advocacy and professional development opportunities.
Through training, coaching, facilitation, and a caring individualized approach, we offer your community-based organization or public agency best-practice strategies for greater success.
The goal of the CalSAC Trainer Network is to build the training and facilitation skills of leaders in the field who, in turn, provide training to afterschool program staff, volunteers and administrators working in a variety of programs across the state.
