I am a member of:
*Dakota County Family Child Care Association (For which I was previously on the board, worked on various committees and now as a Provider Mentor and other volunteer roles.)
*Adults & Children’s Alliance MN Center for Professional Development
*Providers Choice (USDA Food Program)
Training
The county requires me to take 16 hours annually. I am current on all required trainings and regularly choose to take additional trainings to further my personal development on a variety of childcare related topics.
Here is a small list of some of trainings I have taken across the years since opening:
*Childcare Professionalism
*Supervision through the Stages
*LANA-Learning about Nutrition through Activities
*Autism Spectrum Disorder
*Sign Language
*Winning Cooperation through Encouragement
*SUID/AHT (Sudden Unexplained Infant Death/Abusive Head Trauma)
*Ages of Infancy
*Second Step Empathy Skills
*CPR/First Aid
*Foundations for Quality
*On the Go with Literature
* I am Moving, I am Learning
*Sleep On It
*Authentic Observation
*Power of Play
*The Road to Reading
*Social Skills
*Minnesota Infant/Toddler Credential
*ADHD
*Beyond Time Out
*Sensational Sensory Play
*Misbehavior or Mistaken Behavior
*Young Children and Biting
*Speech and Language Development
*ECIPS-Early Childhood Indicator of Progress