Welcome
Do you want to:
- Find child care in Kennebec or Somerset counties?
- Learn about child care in Kennebec or Somerset counties?
- Learn about professional development opportunities for child care providers?
- Find out why it's good business to invest in child care?
The Child Care Options - Resource Development Center is a program of Southern Kennebec Child Development Corporation and is funded by the Maine Department of Health and Human Services, to help families find child care and understand their options, support child care providers by offering ongoing professional development opportunities, and to inform businesses and communities on the importance of child care.
Maine Eco-Healthy Child Care
Help has arrived for parents and child care programs who want to choose/create environments that are safe, healthy, and free of chemicals of concern. The Eco-Healthy Child Care program ensures that child care settings are as environmentally healthy as possible.
Child care settings qualify as "Eco-Healthy" by completing and implementing a checklist that highlights 25 simple steps that ensure a sefe place for children. Eco-Healthy Child Care settings commit to reducing a child's exposure to tosins and other environmental healthy hazards. Settings that qualify receive an endorsement certificate and a poster that let parents and others know of their efforts, anf demonstrates their commitments to being Eco-healthy. Endorsed programs are also listed on the website. For more information, check out the website www.oeconline.org/ehcc.
TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES
Trainer: Sharon Abair
Date: Aug. 9 - 1st Meeting
Time: 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Location:
CCO, Farmingdale
Cost:
$10.00 QRS Participants
$15.00 Non-QRS
Operating Your Family Child Care Business
This eight part curriculum is designed to develop and improve basic business management skills. Learning activities and take home action steps encourage participants to practice what they learn to improve the bottom line. Some of the topics are: Balancing Work and Family, Tips on Writing Contracts and Policies, Creative Marketing Ideas, Recordkeeping, Increasing Business Profits, and Growing the Business.
This training is part face-to-face and part online training. Online work needs to be completed between meetings with a final meeting and completion of September 20.
Trainer: Michael Sandberg
Dates: Saturday, August 7, Wednesday evenings August 11, 18, 25, Sept. 1
Times:
8/7: 9 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. Breakfast & lunch included.
All other: 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Location:
Maine Children's Home, Waterville
Cost:
$10.00 QRS Participants
$15.00 Non-QRS
Introduction to Infant Mental Health
Infant mental health is an inter-disciplinary field concerned with maximizing the emotional, physical, social and cognitive well-being of zero to five year old children and their caregivers. This course will give an overview of the field while also providing specific information on attachments, temperament, relationship building, use of self, principles of infant mental health practice, assessment, identifying and supporting family strengths. Anyone who works with young children will find it particularly enlightening and useful. This is a requirement for the Infant Toddler Credential.
More CCO Training Information
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Course Descriptions are listed in our CCO Newsletter (PDF)