e-Pathways
A twice-monthly resource for early childhood professionals:
in Southwest Ohio, the Miami Valley and Northern Kentucky

Feb. 18, 2009

4C launches new efforts to develop early childhood leaders, needs input
Thanks to a major grant from a family foundation, 4C is designing several new efforts to provide management and leadership training for child care center directors/owners, including a year-long leadership seminar. The advisory team designing this seminar needs input! If you are a director, owner or leader of a child care program, please take a few minutes to help with the planning process by completing a very brief survey. 
   To take the survey 

   For more about 4C's new leadership development efforts

Workshop Alerts

  • Warren County directors: Discuss Step Up To Quality, curriculum alignment and improving staff attendance at the next Warren County Directors’ Network tomorrow, Feb.19, 12:30-2:30 at the Warren County Community Services Building in Lebanon. Call Jean Johns (513-758-1223) for details.

  • FREE: SUTQ 101. Next Step Up To Quality workshop: Feb. 20. Make-up class for Jan. 27 snow day: Feb. 24.  For more...

  • Family child care providers: The “Essentials of Quality Family Child Care” is a series of four workshops to help you make child care “fit” in your home, to find families and keep them enrolled, to know the “business talk” of family child care and to choose “the right stuff” for developmental play. Next course: Mar.17. For more...

  • Do you give medication to children? Administering medication is an important responsibility. Learn important steps and regulations in “Medication Administration in Child Care,” Feb. 27.  For more...

  • Easy as 1-2-3! How to use the developmentally appropriate mathematics curriculum (Module One) of Ohio’s Early Learning Content Standards: Mar. 3 and May 1. To register...

  • ADHD classroom management. Help children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder be successful in the classroom and at home: Mar. 14. To register...

  • Child sexual abuse prevention training. See details in story below under 4C News. Next dates for this free workshop: Mar. 18 and May 6. To register...

  • Responsive caregiving for infants and toddlers. When to guide, when to teach and when to intervene: Mar. 5. To register..

  • 'Learning to Be Together.' Join this workshop on social and emotional development of young children led by Lucy Goodkin on Mar. 21. To register...

  • 'Achieve Professionalism.' Learn how “professionalism” can improve your team working environment and contribute to success in early childhood education. Led by Kay Fittes. Series will begin April 15. For more...

4C News

  • 4C a lead partner of 'Learning Through Play.' This March 28 conference at the Cincinnati Museum Center focuses on families and how to identify, promote and engage a child in "teachable moments" that occur when children are at play. For more...

  • 4C announces new verification procedure for Ohio workshop participants. A new workshop verification procedure is in place at all 4C Ohio locations. To be admitted to "Infant and Toddler Guidelines" and "Early Learning Content Standards" workshops, each participant must provide an in-service form or certificate to prove completion of the required overview courses. For more...

  • 4C Miami Valley and CARE House offer free child abuse prevention. 4C Miami Valley is collaborating with CARE House, the community’s advocacy center for child victims of abuse and neglect, by hosting a free child sexual abuse prevention workshop, “Stewards of Children.” Thanks to a grant from Ohio Children's Trust Fund, 300 participants can learn how to prevent, recognize and react responsibly to child sexual abuse. The curriculum for the three-hour training includes a video, workbook and group discussion. Help better protect more children and sign up today.

Tips for Providers

  • Free background checks for Kentucky providers! The Kentucky Division of Child Care announced that the Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) now offers FREE criminal background checks for all types of child and youth serving agencies. To download required form...

  • The State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) has been reauthroized!  For details...

  • Ohio's governor focuses on needs of children. Governor Ted Strickland plans to support the needs of the whole child, including early education, health, behavioral health, and family support. For more...

  • 2009 Baby Extravaganza: April 18. Free giveaways, food, crafts, puppet shows, books, massages and more! Sat., April 18, 10:30 a.m.-2 p.m. at Crossroads Community Church, 3500 Madison Rd., Cincinnati. A special event for parents of infants, toddlers and preschoolers brought to you by Hamilton County's Help Me Grow. 4C will be there! For details, contact Jennifer Powers, jpowers@thechildrenshomecinti.org or download the flyer.

4C is the child care resource and referral agency for 23 counties in Ohio and Kentucky.
e-Pathways is an electronic companion to our quarterly print newsletter, Pathways to Quality.

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