This In-PERSON TRAINING provides an overview of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), identifies risk factors, and describes ways to reduce the risk of SIDS in child care.

Be Active Kids is an innovative, interactive nutrition, physical activity, and food safety curriculum for children ages 0-5. This training aims to give your children the tools they need to develop positive physical activity and nutrition habits for a lifetime of good health. Be Active Kids uses colorful characters, interactive, hands-on lessons, and bright visuals to teach children that physical activity, healthy eating, and food safety can be fun.

FLIP IT is a strategy that offers a simple, kind, strength-based, common sense, and effective four-step process to address children’s day-to-day challenging behavior. The four steps are embodied in the FLIP mnemonic, which stands for F – Feelings, L – Limits, I – Inquiries, and P – Prompts.

The objectives of this training are as follow: to explain why cultural competency is important to quality early childhood education; explore how people are culturally conditioned by past socialization experiences; explore awareness as a building block to developing cultural competence; explain how societal assumptions about cultural, ethnic and racial differences impact ourselves, children and families; and explore and discuss implications for teaching diverse children and engaging families.

This In-PERSON TRAINING provides an overview of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), identifies risk factors, and describes ways to reduce the risk of SIDS in child care

This In-PERSON TRAINING provides an overview of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), identifies risk factors, and describes ways to reduce the risk of SIDS in child care.

This TWO-part training will introduce participants to the document North Carolina Foundations for Early Learning and Development. Participants will use the book to learn about the standards, how they are structured, and how to implement them in early childhood settings. Participants will construct the knowledge base necessary to use the standards in supporting children in their learning and development by embedding the standards in daily classroom planning and practice.