Child Care Aware® of Missouri and its regional agencies provide a wide range of clock-hour workshops for child care professionals at all levels. Click the button at right to view upcoming workshops in your area. Workshops include:
Basic Knowledge Curriculum – Early Childhood
This curriculum has been designed to give child care and early learning professionals the knowledge to be successful when caring for children. Each module is three clock hours. Read full description here.
Module 1: Responsibilities of Child Care and Early Learning Professionals
Module 2: Child Abuse, Neglect and Shaken Baby Syndrome
Module 3: Child Safety and Prevention Awareness
Module 4: Routine Care: Sleeping, Hand Washing and Diapering
Module 5: Keeping our Children Healthy
Module 6: Understanding the Whole Child
Module 7: Planning Experiences for Children
Module 8: Interactions with Children
Module 9: Guiding Children’s Behavior
Module 10: Creating a Welcoming Environment
Module 11: Creating Daily Routines
Module 12: Program Planning: Discover, Create and Explore
Module 13: Promoting Wellness
Module 14: Professionalism
Basic Knowledge Curriculum - Youth Development
This new curriculum is designed to give you the tools and strategies necessary to thrive in the unique area of school-age care. Read full description here.
Module 1: Getting Started as a Youth Development Professional
Module 2: Protecting Children and Youth
Module 3: Preparing for Emergencies and Disasters
Module 4: Keeping Youth Safe
Module 5: Keeping Youth Healthy
Module 6: Promoting Health and Wellness
Module 7: Youth Development
Module 8: Curriculum and Activities
Module 9: Foundations for Effective Indoor Environments
Module 10: Foundations for Effective Outdoor Environments
Module 11: Awareness of Youth Empowerment
Module 12: Individual Guidance
Module 13: Connecting Youth, Families, and Communities
Module 14: Embracing Diversity of Youth, Families, and Communities
Infant/Toddler Child Care Orientation Training (I/T CCOT)
This curriculum is designed to give child care and early learning professionals a pratical introduction to caring for infants and toddlers to enrich professional practices and interactions with children and families. Read full description here.
Social and Emotional Child Care Orientation Training (SE CCOT)
This curriculum is designed to give child care and early learning professionals foundational knowledge of social and emotional development and inclusion to help them be successful when caring for infants and young children with diverse needs and abilities. Each workshop is three clock hours. Read full description here.
Module 1: Importance of Relationships
Module 2: Environment, Routine and Strategies
Module 3: Social and Emotional Teaching Strategies
Module 4: Promoting Children’s Success through Social and Emotional Learning Techniques
A Place for All Children: Learning about Inclusion
This curriculum has been designed to give child care and early learning professionals the knowledge to be successful when caring for all children. Read full description here.
Module 1: Laying the Groundwork for Inclusion
Module 2: Observing as a Tool for Planning and Communicating
Module 3: Embracing Diversity
Module 4: Creating an Inclusive Program
Module 5: Starting Right in Supporting Families
Module 6: A Family’s Journey
Module 7: Understanding Early Intervention and Special Education
Module 8: Supporting Children with Diverse Cognitive, Physical, Hearing and Visual Needs and Abilities
Module 9: Abilities not Disabilities: Supporting Children with Autism, Emotional Disorders and Language Delays
Module 10: Addressing Stress and Trauma in Children
Module 11: Positive Behavior Support Approach
Module 12: Enhancing the Skills and Confidence of Child Care and Early Learning Professionals
Module 13: Together we are Better …Teaming for Collaboration
Module 14: Emotional Intelligence