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

May 6, 2009

4C recognizes providers who strive for quality. Watch your mailbox!

National Provider Appreciation Day is May 8--and a special provider appreciation edition of 4C's "Pathways to Quality" is in the mail. Plus, the 4C Web site has a complete listing of all the centers, family child care homes and individuals who have achieved recognition for their efforts to improve the quality of early learning and care. For listings of national accreditations, state quality ratings and individuals who have achieved or are pursuing the Child Development Associate (CDA) credential, visit http://highqualitychildcare.org/ct/m711111174G1/.

Workshop Alerts

  • “Essentials of Quality Family Child Care” will help you make child care “fit” in your home, to find families and keep them enrolled, know the “business talk” of family child care and choose “the right stuff” for developmental play. Next date:  May 19. For more...

  • Directors' Network: Join other directors May 21, 12:30 - 2:30 p.m., at the Warren County Community Services Building in Lebanon. Bring a lunch and join the discussion on the latest issues facing early childhood. Call Jean Johns at 513-758-1223 for details.

  • “ELCS for Directors" offers new ways to help your staff implement Ohio’s Early Learning Content Standards: May 8 and 15.  For more...
  • Working with school-age children? 4C is offering a variety of workshops for you: “School-age Overview,” May 13 and June 10; “Understanding School-Age Children,” May 20; “Positive Learning Environments,” May 27.  To register...

  • Know someone considering providing child care at home? Suggest an orientation on the basics of getting started May 19, 9:30 a.m. – 12 p.m.: information about 4C's free referral system, the application process and the Child and Adult Care Food Program. Call 937-220-9660 ext. 6102 to sign up.

  • “Babies and Books,” May 28, is a SUTQ-approved workshop that focuses on what "early literacy" looks like for infants and toddlers, the strategies caregivers can use and free local resources. For more...

  • Know someone considering providing child care at home? Suggest a FREE information session:

    • Pendleton County: Tues., May 12, 6-7:30 p.m., Falmouth School Center

    • Grant County: Tues., May 19, 6:30 – 8 p.m., Sherman Elementary

    • Kenton County: Thurs., May 21,  6 -7:30 p.m., Erlanger/Elsmere Family Resource Center

    • Contact Jill at 781-3511 ext. 8512 for more information.

4C News

  • 800 star-rated programs in Ohio! Step Up To Quality reached the Ohio Governor's goal of 800 star-rated programs by June 30--two months early! Kim Ginn, 4C's SUTQ coordinator, says thanks to the more than 800 early care and education programs that "reached for the stars!

  • Northern Kentucky child care leaders: Still time to register for May 8 4C leadership conference. "The Power of We” is the topic of the keynote address at 4C Northern Kentucky’s Third Annual Leadership Conference, Friday, May 8, at Receptions Inc. in Erlanger. This conference is approved for training clock hours by Kentucky Division of Child Care. The day is especially for owners, directors, administrators or management teams in the early care and education field. 

  • 4C Web site provides swine flu updates and resources for child care professionals. For more...
  • Ohio family child care reminder! Please return the yellow update form sent to all famly child care providers not participating in the USDA food program by May 15. If you’ve misplaced the form, contact Julie Cloyd (513-758-1231) or Donna O’Neill (937-220-9660).

Tips for Providers

  • Ohio's groundWork campaign urges providers to take immediate action on The State of Ohio’s 2010 budget! To take action...

  • How will Ohio’s 2010 budget affect your center? For resources and details from 4C...

  • Countdown to Provider Appreciation Day, May 8. Celebrate this special day to recognize child care providers, teachers and other educators of young children everywhere. For more...

  • The Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) needs your support! The CACFP provides nutritious lunches and snacks to 190,000 family child care homes and centers. As Congress is considering legislation to reauthorize the program, make your voice heard!

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.

http://www.4cforchildren.org/ / 800-256-1296