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Local child care provider training will be coming to your area soon sponsored by the Great Start Regional Child Care Resource Center! Stay tuned for classes coming to your area!

Click on the link below to go to Great Start Connect and from there, click on "Training." You will be linked to the training calendar for your specific county. Registration can be done online!

Day Care Aides and Relative Providers - Reach Tier 2 status through a Home Visiting Program!!

Do you care for children as a Relative Provider or Day Care Aide, and are paid through the Department of Human Services? If so, a wonderful program is available! Sign up now! This FREE program will offer assistance in behavioral issues, learning activities and more, and the best thing is, we come to you! Call now to get registered! 1-800-257-9907!! This is a total 10 hour program.

This 10 hour course is completed through home visits and can be completed in order to receive Tier 2 payment for the Relative Provider and Day Care Aide providers. Space is limited, sign up now!! Call our office to find out how to register - 1-800-257-9907.

Great Start to Quality Orientation

Relative Caregivers and Day Care Aides - You are now required to take the Great Start to Quality Orientation to continue receiving pay from the State of Michigan to care for children. YOU MUST REGISTER TO ATTEND THIS TRAINING - SPACES ARE LIMITED. Go to www.greatstartconnect.org and click on "Training" to find a training date and site. Or, call our office at 1-800-257-9907.

Training Calendar

4C CORRESPONDENCE COURSES

*Printable Registration Form - all courses (click here)*

Advanced Training Series Observing and Recording Children's Behavior Correspondence Course

10 Hour Training (1. CEUs, $8 Processing Fee Required)

Cost: $50.00 (non-refundable Registration fee)

Math Activities Correspondence Course

2.5 Hour Training

$25.00 Non-Refundable Registration Fee

Topics include: Age Appropriate Expectations, Group Activity Development, Planning Math in Your Curriculum. Please contact Robin at 4C for more information please call 1-866-424-4532 or 989-354-8089 or e-mail bensonr@cfsnemi.org

SIDS & Abusive Head Trauma Correspondence Course

2.5 Hour Training

$25.00 Non-Refundable Registration Fee

Learn about Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and Shaken Baby Syndrome. Topics include: What is SIDS & Shaken Baby Syndrome? Keeping Infants Sleeping Safely, Signs of Abuse and How to Report. Please contact Robin at 4C for more information please call 1-866-424-4532 or 989-354-8089 or e-mail bensonr@cfsnemi.org

Assistant Caregiver Essential Facts Correspondence Course

5 Hour Training

$40.00 Non-Refundable Registration Fee

Topics include: Health and Safety, Developmental Stages and Activities, Easing Transitions, and Working with Families. (This training will fulfill licensing requirements for assistant caregivers) Please contact Robin at 4C for more information please call 1-866-424-4532 or 989-354-8089 or e-mail bensonr@cfsnemi.org

Literacy Activities Correspondence Course

6 Hour Training

$50.00 Non-Refundable Registration Fee

Learn about early childhood literacy, what it is, what it entails, and ways to implement learning activities into your child care program. Please contact Robin at 4C for more information please call 1-866-424-4532 or 989-354-8089 or e-mail bensonr@cfsnemi.org

ADMINISTRATOR PART 1 Correspondence course

15 Hour Training 1.5 CEUs

$75.00 Non-Refundable Registration Fee (CEUs add $8 processing fee required)

Topics Include:

Administering Child Care Programs
Recruitment & Hiring of Staff
Staff Training

During this course you will complete three packets. You will complete the first packet of assignments and send them back to our office. Once we have recorded the assignments as complete, we will send out the next packet and so on until all three packets are completed. A 4C trainer is available to assist you by phone to answer any questions. Please contact Robin at 4C for more information please call 1-866-424-4532 or 989-354-8089 or e-mail bensonr@cfsnemi.org

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ADMINISTRATOR PART TWO Correspondence course

15 Hour Training 1.5 CEUs

$75.00 Non-Refundable Registration Fee (CEU add $8 processing fee required)

MUST have taken Administrator Part One to enroll.

Topics Include:

Financial Management
Recruitment & Retention of Families
Designing a Program and Daily operations.

Please contact Robin at 4C for more information please call 1-866-424-4532 or 989-354-8089 or e-mail bensonr@cfsnemi.org

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MSU Blood Borne Pathogen Training-Online

By MSU Extension

Free 5 Hour Training

for more information go to http://bkconline.org/training/bbp/learn

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Looking for information on obtaining your CDA? Click HERE to find out more.

Looking to get an Associate Degree or Bachelor Degree in Early Childhood? Check out these options:

Bay Mills Community College - offers online courses in Early Childhood Education and similar courses. Click HERE for more information.

Kellogg Community College offers CDA and Early Childhood courses online! Click HERE for more information.

ONLINE BLOOD BORNE PATHOGENS TRAINING - CLICK HERE