FREE ONLINE FAMILY CHILD CARE TRAINING
offered by:
CHILD CARE PROVIDER CONNECTION
to residents of Barrie, Innisfil & Bradford Ontario, Canada only
About F.C.C.T.
The Family Child Care Training is a collaboration of six provincial family daycare organization, two national organizations and a prominent Canadian university, supported by the Child Care Visions Program, HDRC. The course represents an important first for the family day care community. It is the first time that provincial associations representing both regulated and unregulated family child care sectors and national organizations have had an opportunity to work together on a project that will enhance, support and enable the delivery of training for family child care providers across Canada.
The Family Child Care Training will provide you, the caregiver, with an understanding of young children and the skills to work more effectively with them and their families. Consideration is also given to legal and business matters which serve to protect you from unnecessary expenses and liability.
Individual benefits:
• Strengthen your confidence as a family child care provider
• Teaches you the skills to operate your own business
• Prepare you to meet the care giving needs of families in your community
Family Child Care Training consists of three levels, each level contains 12 units of study. Each unit is designed to equate to approximately 3 hours of class time. Each of the assignments for evaluation require an average of 2-4 hours of independent work. Completion of each level, with an evaluation component, would equate to approximately 60-80 hours of training.
Who was the program designed for?
Level 1 is intended for individuals who are currently, or who are interested in becoming providers of family child care in both the regulated and unregulated sectors. It is primarily intended for those who have had little or no previous training related to family child care. However, even experienced, trained caregivers will find the opportunity to review and reinforce their knowledge, and the sharing of experiences with others, helpful and worthwhile.
Level 2 is intended for individuals who are currently, or who are interested in becoming providers of family child care in both the regulated and unregulated sectors. It is primarily intended for those who have participated in an introductory level training program, (e.g. Level 1 of the Family Child Care Training Course, Step Ahead, Good Beginnings) and/or have experience as caregivers and participated in some training/professional development opportunities.
Level 3 is intended for individuals who are currently, or who are interested in becoming providers of family child care in both the regulated and unregulated sectors. It is primarily intended for those who have participated in an introductory level training program,(e.g., Level 1 and /or Level 2 of the Family Child Care Training Course, Step Ahead, Good Beginnings), and/or have had experience as caregivers and participated in some training/professional development opportunities.
About the training
You can take training from anywhere with access to the internet!! The training is also available for you to take any time of the day, whatever fits your schedule. Each unit allows you to go at your own pace within the time frame for completion. If you have a question or comment about the unit you can email your instructor! Or, if you’d like to discuss the unit with others you can use the Child Care Provider Connection Message Board.
The Child Care Provider Connection provides you with the verification you need. When you successfully complete all 3 Levels of training you will receive a printable certificate for your records.
Questions/Comments to Instructor will be replied to within 24 hours via email.
Access to Online Training Message Board is available 24/7 after successful registration to the Online Training Course..
There is no cost for this course, but you must be a member of the
Child Care Provider Connection
to find out more about becoming a member which is also FREE click on our How To Join page of the website.
There are no Courses offered during the Summer Season (July, August)with the Child Care Provider Connection.
The courses begin in September( Fall) with Level 1 and continue with Level 2 in January(Winter) and finishing with Level 3 in April (Spring), therefore you could complete all 3 Levels in less than a year. You must complete each previous level beginning with Level 1 to proceed to the next Level of study.
TO REGISTER FOR THIS COURSE PLEASE COMPLETE THE FORM BELOW AND SUBMIT FOR CONSIDERATION
Family Child Care Training On-Line
Level One Course Description Presented by: The Child Care Provider Connection
Unit 1 – Your Child Care Home: Identifying the variety of activities that need to be considered in planning space; strategies for adapting and organizing the home to meet child care and family needs; and reviewing methods for storing child care equipment and materials.
Unit 2 – Safety: Recognizing children’s vulnerability and the need for commitment to safe child care practice; assessing environments for child safety; maintaining safe environments for children; and identifying how children can be helped to develop safety awareness.
Unit 3 – Health: Recognizing the vulnerability of children and the importance of protecting their health, reviewing good health practices; and identifying how children can be helped to develop good health practices.
Unit 4 – Nutrition: Understanding the importance of good nutrition in children’s growth and development; reviewing Canada’s food guide and recommended daily servings; planning meals and snacks that meet children’s nutritional, cultural, and personal preferences and needs; and identifying strategies to encourage children’s interest in good nutrition.
Unit 5 – Child Development: Reviewing stages of child development; understanding the importance of recognizing and supporting each individual child’s pace of development; and reviewing appropriate steps to take when concern arises about a child’s development.
Unit 6 – Child Guidance: Understanding the purpose of child guidance; recognizing that inappropriate behaviors are a normal part of children’s development; identifying reasons why children sometimes behave in inappropriate ways; developing a range of appropriate child guidance techniques; and understanding the importance of communication with parents around child guidance matters.
Unit 7 – Helping Children Grow & Develop: Reviewing caregiver’s role in supporting children’s development; understanding the importance of children’s social and emotional development; developing approaches that support children's healthy social and emotional development; and developing approaches to encourage children’s feeling of acceptance and belonging.
Unit 8 – The Child Care Day: Recognizing the range of essential and desirable activities required to meet the needs of the child care children and their families, the caregiver's family and the caregiver; developing strategies that help balance the range of needs of all involved; and formulating daily routines that meet the caregiver’s individual circumstances.
Unit 9 – The Business of Family Child Care: Recognizing the importance of good business practice in operating a successful family child care program; reviewing regulatory and legal requirements, including the reporting of income for tax purposes; understanding the importance of utilizing written child care agreements and related forms with client families; recognizing the importance of maintaining appropriate child related, administrative and financial record; recognizing the importance of maintaining adequate liability insurance; understanding calculations of income and expenses for the setting of fees and the preparation of income tax returns; and reviewing methods of determining child care needs in the community and of filling vacancies.
Unit 10 – Starting Off Right: Identifying factors that help to establish good relationships between parents and caregivers; recognizing that parents have needs, wishes, feelings and concerns regarding their child care arrangements; identifying what parents and caregivers need to know before coming to a decision about beginning a child care arrangement; identifying strategies for initial contacts and pre-placement interviews with parents; and identifying strategies to ease the child’s adjustment before and after care begins.
Unit 11 – Partnerships With Parents: Understanding the benefits of positive parent and caregiver partnerships; recognizing the importance of communication in building and maintaining partnerships; developing strategies and techniques to encourage parent-caregiver communication; identifying strategies for encouraging parental involvement; and reviewing problem-solving techniques.
Unit 12 – Connecting With Your Community: Understanding benefits to children and caregivers of active community involvement; identifying a range of possible resources and services in the community for children and caregiver; and reviewing strategies for undertaking successful outings.
Level Two Course Description Presented by: Child Care Provider Connection
Unit 1 – Caring for Infants: Understanding the importance of brain development in infants; understanding physical, cognitive, emotional, social and language development in infants; reviewing the caregiver’s role in supporting development; developing approaches for working with families of infants; understanding the importance of communication with parents around the infants care and development.
Unit 2 – Caring for Toddlers: Understanding physical, cognitive, emotional, social and language development in toddlers; reviewing the caregivers role in supporting development; understanding the importance of working in partnership with parents around the care and development of the toddler; developing techniques for fostering independence in toddlers; developing strategies for assisting toddlers with toilet learning; providing positive child guidance to toddlers.
Unit 3 – Caring for Preschoolers: Understanding physical ,cognitive ,emotional, social and language development in preschoolers; reviewing the caregivers role in supporting development; understanding the importance of working in partnership with parents around the care and development of preschoolers; fostering school-readiness in preschoolers; providing positive child guidance to preschoolers.
Unit 4 – Caring for School-Aged Children: Understanding physical, cognitive, emotional, social and language development in school-aged children; reviewing the caregivers role in supporting development; understanding the importance of working in partnership with parents around the care and development of school-aged children; developing strategies for helping school-aged children develop an awareness of and techniques to ensure personal safety; providing positive child guidance to school-aged children.
Unit 5 – Meeting Children’s Needs in a Multi-Aged Group: Reviewing the challenges and the benefits of caring for children of different ages and stages; developing daily routines to meet varying needs; utilizing household activities as learning experiences for children; strategies for planning play activities appropriate to different ages and stages; approaches to help children gain and understanding of the needs of others.
Unit 6 – Developing Children’s Language Skills: Understanding how language develops in children; understanding the importance of hearing in language development; utilizing routines and activities to support language development; recognizing indicators of possible speech impairment or difficulties; recognizing indicators of possible hearing impairment or difficulties; understanding the importance of communication with parents around language development.
Unit 7 – Developing Caregivers Observation Skills: Understanding the value of observation in planning children’s experiences, gaining insight and information on children’s development, deepening understanding of children’s behavior, and evaluating the effectiveness of routines; understanding the value of recording observations; reviewing a process to enhance practice from observation through assessment, planning, ,implementation, and evaluation; reviewing simple observation methods.
Unit 8 – Caring for the Caregiver: Developing a greater awareness and understanding of caregivers own needs; developing approaches that support caregivers emotional and spiritual well-being; understanding the importance of, and techniques for, personal goal-setting; reviewing effective time-management strategies.
Unit 9 – Balancing Work and Family: Understanding the challenges for parents and caregivers in balancing work and family life; reviewing strategies for encouraging parent’s involvement in their child’s care; reviewing the challenges for caregivers in living and working in their home; understanding the impact of family child care on the caregivers family; reviewing strategies for addressing needs of the caregivers family.
Unit 10 – Planning for Play: Understanding the importance of play in children’s development; creating environments that support play; understanding the caregivers role in supporting play; expanding on children’s interests through play; identifying a range of seasonal activities for indoor and outdoor play.
Unit 11 – Risk Management: Understanding the importance of identifying potential risks, and reducing and /or controlling risk where possible; understanding the importance of preventative safety measures in reducing risk; developing strategies for coping with extraordinary or emergency situations; developing techniques to help children cope with extraordinary or emergency situations.
Unit 12 – Serving Nutritious Meals & Snacks: Reviewing Canada’s Food Guide and appropriate serving sizes for children; developing awareness of symptoms/indications of food intolerances and allergies; recognizing the importance of communication with parents around children’s dietary needs and preferences; developing effective strategies for planning and preparation of meals and snacks..
Level 3 Course Description Presented by: The Child Care Provider Connection
Unit 1 – Enhancing Children’s Self Esteem: Understanding the development of self-esteem and the importance of building self-esteem in children; reviewing the caregivers role in providing positive child guidance; reviewing positive communication techniques to nurture self -esteem; developing approaches for encouraging children to take responsibility for their actions.
Unit 2 – Where Do We Fit?: Understanding the role of child care in Canadian Society; understanding the role of family child care in the child care system; understanding the unique qualities of family child care; recognizing who becomes a family child care provider and why; identifying how and why to advocate for family child care..
Unit 3 – Everyday Problem Solving: Developing an understanding of problems and disagreements and how problem solving. strategies work in the child care program; implementing and evaluating problem solving strategies; identifying the long term benefits to the child and adult when practicing problem solving techniques; reinforcing the important role of the child care provider when putting problem solving techniques into practice.
Unit 4 – Challenging Behaviors: Recognizing the importance of understanding challenging behavior in children; developing strategies to prevent or reduce the frequency of challenging behaviors within the family child care environment; developing techniques to manage challenging behaviors when they occur; reviewing the role of caregiver and parent in supporting the development of children.
Unit 5 – Inclusion: Understanding the importance of self reflection; learning about children’s conception of difference; communicating effectively with children and parents about diversity and inclusiveness; including children with special needs; creating an inclusive and diverse family child care environment.
Unit 6 – Enhancing the Caregivers Communication Skills: Understanding how self-concept effects communication; understanding verbal and non-verbal skills; developing positive communication skills; developing techniques to communicate assertively; developing active and reflective listening skills; reviewing email etiquette.
Unit 7 – Reflective Practice: Understanding reflective practice; understanding the importance and the benefits of reflective practice in your family child care profession; identifying factors that influence you in your reflective practice; identifying tools that assist you in your reflective practice; recognizing the effects of your actions, attitudes and beliefs on your family child care environment.
Unit 8 – Financial Planning & Management: Understanding the importance of a parent/provider contract that can protect your income; identifying how to create a budget for your household and your family child care business; identifying how much revenue you need to provide an income for yourself and keep your business profitable; understanding the importance of financial planning for the future, including contributions to RRSP’S, and saving for the holidays and sick time; understanding how to use credit to your advantage.
Unit 9 – The Ethics of Caring: Understanding the foundations of decision making, the connection between your opinions and their underlying principles; understanding what ethical dilemmas are; reviewing the Code of Ethics; understanding how to solve ethical dilemmas using the Code of Ethics as a tool; developing your own framework for decision-making.
Unit 10 – Child Abuse Awareness: Recognizing the indicators and learning about the prevention of child abuse; understanding the impact of family violence on children; understanding your responsibility to report suspected cases of child abuse; reinforcing the caregiver’s role in providing a safe, caring environment and always considering the child first; identifying community service organizations to assist you in reporting suspected cases of child abuse; identifying preventative measures to protect yourself and your family from accusations of abuse.
Unit 11 – Rights-Based Caring: Developing an understanding of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child; understanding the responsibilities of the parent, child and caregiver; recognizing how to use the Convention on the Right’s of the Child (CRC) in the family child care home.
Unit 12 – Stress Management: Developing an understanding of the long-term effects of stress in our personal and professional lives; identifying the symptoms and levels of stress evaluating the effective management of our stress; reinforcing the implications of stress levels on the children in our care; developing techniques to reduce the effects of stress.
