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The Texas Trainer Registry (TTR) lists approved early childhood trainers and their trainings. In order for these trainers to be listed on the TTR, they must apply and meet certain eligibility criteria based on their education, training, and experience. our trainers are registered trainers and infill compliance with TECPDS.

Once your training preference has been received, approved, and your training has been scheduled, you will receive a Trainer ID Number notifying you of which trainer will be in attendance for your selected date/time.

https://WWW.TECPDS.ORG

Your program’s training participants receive a certificate as as full credit for completion of their training(s) post training session.

Request a Child Care Health Consultant (CCHC):
Child care health consultants (CCHCs) are health professionals with education and experience in child and community health. They are an invaluable resource for early care and education programs. CCHCs support programs by providing expertise in a variety of areas such as increasing staff knowledge on health issues and improving compliance with best practices.

How can a CCHC support early care and education programs?

A child care health consultant (CCHC) combines health expertise with knowledge of early care and education best practices to help programs ensure healthy and safe learning environments. They do this by:

• Helping programs understand children’s healthy growth and development and how to address children’s health conditions
• Writing or reviewing policies and procedures
• Observing health and safety practices and helping programs prevent illness and injuries
• Providing training for staff and families
• Facilitating referrals to community health and social service resources
• Assisting programs with quality improvement strategies

Scientific research supports the importance of a CCHC

Studies have confirmed that CCHCs improve the health and safety of children in early care and education programs by:

• Increasing staff knowledge of health issues in child care settings
• Increasing compliance with health and safety best practice standards
• Improving the quality of health and safety policies and practices, including handwashing, sanitation, and safe sleep practices
• Increasing the number of children who receive oral, developmental, vision, and hearing screenings and assessments
• Improving children’s access to a medical home, enrollment in health insurance, and up-to-date immunization status
• Strengthening environmental health practices
• Promoting the inclusion of children with special health care needs

For more about CCHC’s: https://eclkc.ohs.acf.hhs.gov/publication/child-care-health-consultants-make-early-care-education-programs-healthier-safer

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SUNNY’S LIGHT EDUCATORS Learning & Specialist and Trainers experienced in coaching and leadership roles critical to the effective implementation and management of learning and development programs and supporting organizational goals. Our mission is to foster personal, innovative, and impactful training, research-based initiatives in alignment with academically endorsed methods and best practices to train employees, resulting in increased knowledge, improved skills, and enhanced quality. Please inquire for additional/ individual training sessions as well as training packages to support your program’s developmental initiatives. “Quality child care is the foundation for America’s prosperity and racial equity,” said Kelvin Chan, Ph.D., Managing Director of Early Childhood at Robin Hood and member of CCAoA’s Board of Directors.“Not only do we need to regard quality child care as a basic public good, but it also needs to be more widely recognized as the mechanism that gives every child a fair chance to achieve future success.”  Creating Outdoor Learning Environments: Experienced trainers and outdoor environment design experts, offer this incredible training on how to create spaces for outdoor learning. Through this training, participants will learn why outdoor learning is so impactful in early childhood, what makes a high-quality learning environment, and how to utilize their current materials and resources to create an outdoor learning environment that supports the developmentally appropriate practice. Meet Your State’s Quality Rated & Head Start Requirements: Our training meets the needs of Quality Rated, Head Start, and other well-recognized Performance Standards Requirements and ranges from basic supervision training to practice-based coaching. Call us today for your training and coaching needs! Our highly skilled instructors deliver training on a variety of topics to meet your needs. This list is just a sample. Call us for more details or to have us create training specifically for you and your staff! Below you will find some of the training we offer: Addressing Special Needs and Challenging Behaviors, QRIS, ITERS, ECERS, Positive Behavior Support (PBIS Model), Inclusion in ECE, STEM in ECE, The Basics of Creating Curriculum, Optimizing Observations for Online Reporting Systems, Classroom Management, Meeting the Needs of Diverse Language Learners, An Introduction to the Ages and Stages Questionnaire, Legal Issues in ECE, Marketing Your Program with Social Media, Creating Effective Policies and Updating Policies, Organizational Development Support. Linking Standards, Curriculum Framework, and AssessmentPractice Based Coaching – Director IMPACTMany, Many, More! Please inquire for additional/ individual training sessions as well as training packages to support your program’s developmental initiatives. Complete Your Annual Licensing Requirements and Enhance Your Program’s Best Practices with our Training & Development Courses Childhood Obesity Prevention. Developmental Screening in Early Childhood. Positive ClimateStress and Time Management. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Social and Emotional Needs of Young Children. Nutrition and Physical Activity in Child Care. Injury Prevention: Playground Safety and Outdoor Learning Environments. Injury Prevention: Playground Safety and Outdoor Learning Environments. Injury Prevention: Common Injury Risks. Infectious Disease in Child Care Settings. Healthy Smiles: Oral Health of Young Children. Environmental Health in Childcare. Healthy Smiles. Colin’s Hope Water Safety Training According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, drowning ranks fifth among the leading causes of unintentional injury death in the United States. From 2005-2014, there were an average of 3,536 fatal unintentional drownings (non-boating related) annually in the United States — about ten deaths per day. Our mission at Colin’s Hope is to raise water safety awareness to prevent children from drowning. This training is designed for parents, caregivers, educators, school directors, principals, camp counselors, and babysitters. Drowning is fast and silent. No one is drown-proof, but drowning is preventable. Register for water safety training sessions to help keep you and your family safer around water throughout the year.  Read more Nourishing Healthy Eaters Healthy Kids, Healthy Future continues the work of Let’s Move! Child Care (LMCC), part of Former First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! initiative to prevent childhood obesity. Healthy Kids, Healthy Future encourages and supports child care and early education providers to make positive changes in their programs in order to work toward a healthier future for children. During early childhood, preferences and behaviors around food are being formed. Some of these behaviors will follow children into adulthood. Nourishing Healthy Eaters explores the role, early childhood professionals and childcare environments can play to support children in establishing healthy eating behaviors, laying a foundation for lifelong health. Register for Nourishing Healthy Eaters Training l to help keep you and your community healthier. Read More For more information or to schedule a training, please contact sunnyslighteducators@gmail.com Virtual Training Only at this Time/HyBrid and In- Person Trainings Coming Soon Sunny’s Light Educators | Facebook @SunnysLighted I Instagram

Learning & Specialist and Trainers experienced in coaching and leadership roles critical to the effective implementation and management of learning and development programs and supporting organizational goals. Our mission is to foster personal, innovative, and impactful training, research-based initiatives in alignment with academically endorsed methods and best practices to train employees, resulting in increased knowledge, improved skills, and enhanced quality.

Ms. Barbara reads It’s Okay To Say Ouch Book with our very engaged students of various ages and afterwards we use our It’s Okay To Say OUCH workbooks to draw ourselves in our very own “special force fields” that protects us from “the bad monsters”

Prevention And Early Detection is Key!

To encourage the children to think about their learning after hearing the “It’s  Okay to Say OUCH” story and to develop their language skills, we asked open ended questions.

Click the play button below to see their responses

We are so excited to draw ourselves in our very own “SPECIAL FORCE FIELDS”!🌟

Thank you Ms. Barbara for Teaching Our children that It’s Okay to Say OUCH!💙