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The training requirement is 12 hours of training for grant awards up to $500 dollars or 16 hours of training for grant awards of more than $500 dollars. The 12 or 16 hours of training must be from:

1. CCR&R Training Catalog
2. MnStreams website
3. Eager to Learn online classes
4. the following approved list

*Food program training is NOT an approved training option
*Association training must be co-sponsored by CCR&R in order to fulfill the grant requirement

Approved Training List:

Building Excellence and Success Training
Training Delivered:
Building Excellence and Success Training is a program of the Development Corporation for Children's Business Development Center. B.E.S.T. offers 11 workshops, each three to four hours long, on topics of business planning and financial management. Workshops are designed for administrators, boards of directors of early education and Rule 3 child care centers to enhance their business skills and encourage best business practices.
Languages: English
Website: www.dcc-corner.com

Infant Toddler Training Intensive (ITTI) Program
Training Delivered:
The ITTI training sessions are designed for infant and toddler caregivers, including parents, grandparents, teens, child care providers and anyone who works with young children. Sessions can be designed to meet the needs and interests of particular groups. The goal of the Program for Infant Toddler Caregivers curriculum is to help caregivers recognize the importance of giving tender, loving care and assisting in the infants' intellectual development through attentive reading of each child's cues. Training materials provide the foundation for a style of care in which caregivers study the infants in their care, reflect on and record information about the children's interests and skills, and search for ways to set the stage for each child's next learning encounters.
Languages: English, Hmong, Spanish, Somali
Website: www.mnchildcare.org

Project EXCEPTIONAL Minnesota
Training Delivered:
Project EXCEPTIONAL Minnesota training provides activities and materials in workshops designed for individuals who are interested in expanding their knowledge about inclusion of special needs children in early childhood and school-age settings. The training is based on a set of core beliefs with a primary philosophy that all children have a right to grow up, play, and live in their own communities. The goal of Project EXCEPTIONAL is to increase the number and quality of inclusive early care and education and school-age care programs for young children with special needs in Minnesota.
Languages: English, Spanish (in some areas)
Website: www.inclusivechildcare.org

Building Cultural Connections
Training Delivered:
The Building Cultural Connections curriculum is designed to train child care providers and other early childhood and school-age care/out of school time professionals as well as community members in the importance, respect, and celebration of culture in the healthy development of all children. Each training offers participants the opportunity to develop a greater awareness of their own culture, learn how to help children grow up with healthy attitudes about cultural differences, work effectively with families,develop skills in cross-cultural communication, and recognize and address discrimination before it starts.
Languages: English, Hmong, Spanish, Somali
Website: www.ecrc1.org

Minnesota School-age Care Alliance's (MnSACA) Program Improvement and Accreditation (PIA) Grant
Training Delivered:
The MnSACA PIA Grant will further develop a School-age Child Development Resource Network to support the coordination of an integrated and accessible system of program improvement for those who work with school-age children and youth. MnSACA's coordinated School-age Care/Out of School Training (SAC/OST) professional development infrastructure will include trainers, curriculum, technical assistance and mentoring and have strong links to other delivery systems. The goal of these trainings is to assist in the development of quality programs. Trainings are reflective of the NSACA Standards for Quality Schoolage Care. Trainings may include behavior management, administrative policy and procedure, musical activities, team building, environments, cooperative games and more.
Languages: English
Website: www.mnsaca.org

SEEDS of School Readiness: An Early Literacy Training Program
Training Delivered:
In-service workshops exclusively through the CCR&R agencies, online via Eager to Learn for in-service and Continuing Education Units (CEUs). The SEEDS of School Readiness Early Literacy Training is a series of seven 2.-hour sessions for adults who care for three- to five-year-old children. SEEDS was designed to give child care providers information about how a SEEDS quality teacher can create a literacy rich classroom or home for three- to five-year-old children. SEEDS is an interactive, skills-based curriculum, based on current research in early childhood education. It trains participants to use balanced, intentional interaction to teach the literacy and social emotional skills children need in order to be ready for school. Caregivers are given knowledge and models of best practices, as well as the opportunity to practice, observe and receive feedback over a series of seven sessions. Sessions 1 and 2 must be taken in succession and before any other session.
Languages: English, Spanish
Website: www.mnchildcare.org

Dollars and Sense: Child Care Business Skills Training
Training Delivered:
Dollars and Sense is designed to teach basic skills to child care providers who do not have experience in small business management. It highlights the best practices which are common to all small businesses and those unique to the child care industry. During the training series, participants develop their own professional business plan, including a contract, break-even analysis, record-keeping system, cash flow plan, income statement, balance sheet and marketing plan. Dollars and Sense also reviews basic principles of assertive communication, using child care-specific examples to assist providers in implementing new policies and in building constructive partnerships with parents.
Languages: English
Website: www.mnstreams.org

Essential Elements of Family Child Care
Training Delivered:
The Minnesota Licensed Family Child Care Association (MLFCCA) provides eight classes, designed specifically for newly licensed providers, on subjects such as Record-keeping for a Business in Your Home, How to Protect Yourself from Maltreatment Allegations, Curriculum and Child Guidance. The training is available to in-home family child care providers who are in the process of obtaining a license or have become licensed within the past two years. Classes also include Parent/Provider Relationshipsf Environments, Nutrition, Health and Safety, Curriculum, Child Guidance, Professionalism, and Rights and Responsibilities.
Languages: English
Website: www.mlfcca.org

Positive Indian Parenting: Honoring our Children by Honoring our Traditions
Training Delivered:
The Positive Indian Parenting (PIP) curriculum was developed by the National Indian Child Welfare Association (NICWA) in Portland, Oregon, to support traditional American Indian parenting practices. To make this curriculum more relevant to Minnesota's Tribal communities, a Minnesota supplement to the curriculum has also been developed. The PIP training philosophy promotes respect, family unity, and pride in Native American traditional ways and has been used in workshops for families, child care providers, Head Start, Early Childhood Family Education (ECFE), early childhood, school-age care and family support staff who care for or serve American Indian children and youth. The curriculum includes the following eight sessions of two to three hours each: Traditional Parenting, Lessons of the Storyteller, Lessons of the Cradleboard,; Harmony in Child Rearing, Traditional Behavior Management, Lessons of Mother Nature, Praise in Traditional Parenting, and Choices in Parenting.
Languages: English

NdCAD Training for Child Care Providers
Training Delivered:
The Network for the Development of Children of African Descent (NdCAD) provides trainings that explore best practices in nurturing and educating children of African descent. The courses provide an in-depth examination of key adult/child relationships that influence and impact the overall development and academic success of the child. The specific roles of parents, community, child service providers, and educators are explored and put into a cultural context that helps the participant better understand how to effectively work with children in ways that build and reinforce strong identity, connection to community and spirit, and academic excellence.
Languages: English
Website: www.ndcad.org

Second Step Training
Training Delivered:
This violence prevention curriculum teaches skills to reduce impulsive and aggressive behavior in children, and to increase their social competence. Based on more than 15 years of classroom application and the most current academic, social, and emotional research, the Second Step curriculum focuses on the three essential competencies . empathy, impulse control and problem solving . as well as anger management. The program includes research-based, teacher-friendly curricula, training for educators, and parent education components.
Languages: English
Website: www.cfchildren.org

Geared for Growth
Training Delivered:
Geared for Growth is aimed at helping professionals enhance their ability to provide relationship-based services to children and families. The training emphasizes partnering between parents and professionals to achieve optimal child development and healthy functioning families. It is based on the latest research in infant mental health, attachment theory, child development, and relationship-based service models.
Languages: English
Website: education.umn.edu/icd/HarrisCenter/GearedforGrowth.htm

Work Sampling System
Training Delivered:
The Work Sampling System of Child Assessment is one of the most current nationally recognized and respected forms of child assessment. Some form of child assessment is an essential part of any program for young children. This two-day training includes 4th Edition Work Sampling materials to implement the three elements of the system. Participants will have an understanding of the checklist, portfolio and summary report as well as ways to implement each element in the classroom and share information with parents and others. The Work Sampling System is designed for three-year-olds through fifth graders.
Languages: English
Website: www.pearsonearlylearning.com

The Ounce Scale: A Curriculum and Assessment Resource for Infants and Toddlers and Their Parents
Training Delivered:
The Ounce Scale is an observational assessment for evaluating infants and toddlers development from birth to 3.. Its purpose is twofold: to provide guidelines and standards for observing and interpreting young childrenfs growth and behaviors, and to provide information that parents, teachers, and caregivers can use in everyday interactions with their children.
Languages: English
Website: www.pearsonearlylearning.com


OTHER EDUCATIONAL/TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES
  • Mentoring and on-site consultations sponsored by statewide training projects
  • Conferences sponsored by:
    • Minnesota Association for the Education of Young Children (MNAEYC)
    • Minnesota Licensed Family Child Care Association (MLFCCA)
    • Minnesota Early Childhood and School-age Trainers Association (MECSATA)
    • Minnesota School-age Care Alliance (MNSACA)
    • Child Care Resource & Referral Agencies (CCR&Rs)
    • White Earth Reservation . Brain Development Conference
  • Trainings sponsored by:
    • Higher education institutions
    • Head Start
    • Early Childhood Family Education (ECFE)- Training for child care providers (not the parent-child ECFE class)
    • Early Childhood Special Education (ECSE)
    • Eager to Learn
    • E-LECT (e-learning for early childhood teachers: http://www.elect.mnscu.edu/index.php)
    • Resources for Child Caring Learning Center (online business courses)
    • Other local options that meet the criteria defined by the CCR&R content standards
  • CEED Online Courses The Center for Early Education and Development (CEED), College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota


Midwest Child Care Resource & Referral
7th & Washington Ave - PO Box 159
Montevideo, MN 56265
(320)269-8727 or (800)292-5437
Fax (320)269-6570