National Association of Child Care Resource & Referral Agencieshttp://www.naccrra.org/(Newsletter: http://capwiz.com/naccrra/mlm/signup/ )
The Providers section of Childcare Aware of America has information about child care licensing, training, and how to start a child care business, staff it, and maintain a quality childcare facility. I found the Leadership Matters webinar to be helpful in teaching early childhood professionals how to be leaders in their schools and community.
The Disaster preparedness allowed me to reflect on VCU's current emergency plan. While I feel my center has a plan that promotes safety in the case of an emergency, I do believe there this site provided areas where we can improve on. I look forward to talking with my colleagues and supervisors to see different things we can add to our emergency plan for safety and improvement.
The Take Action segment gave information of how early child professionals can get involved with local and national leaders and explain the importance of quality child care. Our observations and opinions are the best information for researchers, economist, politicians, and neuroscientist because we deal with children and education on a daily basis. As the site said, "Every voice counts"! It's truly are job to show people in different professionals the importance of early childhood education.
The Don't cut Child Care and Background Check Campaigns were just a few of the advocacy efforts that were made by Child Care Aware of America. While I'm very aware of the constant battle of trying to save child care by explaining its value, I was taken by surprise to learn that there is no national safe guard to ensure that care providers don't have a criminal background. Nearly 11 million children are left in the hands of people who may or may not be criminals. As a parent this frighten me, and I will be joining the 2014 Background Check Campaign.
I found each of the segments of this website to be very enlightening and I look forward to learning more information about the issue and trends of early childhood programs in the near future!
Hi Shirley,
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing this resource with us. I am not familiar with The National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies. Based off you description, it sounds like this is an excellent resource for all educators. I am looking forward to exploring it myself.
Shirly,
ReplyDeleteThis is a great resource. Similiar to you, I am appalled by the concept of our children being left in the hands of people with criminal backgrounds. Another thing that impacted me while reading your blog is the idea of disaster preparation. Often times certain regions of the country are generalized as being susceptible to disasters while others aren't. I am not only eager to learn about the presence of disaster plans that exist but also how often they are put into practice.
Hi Shirley, I am as shocked as you learning there is no background checking policies for early childhood education. I have experience in Human Resources at a bank, so background checking is natural to me, rather obvious I'd say. Do you personally believe early childhood education centers take this precaution by themselves without the need of a policy on that matter? After all, having a criminal among the staff is threat for the business.
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