Building Quality
Child Care Aware® of ND Training Opportunities
For any training questions please contact: training@ndchildcare.org or call 800-997-8515 (Option 2)
Shared Services
Are you looking to save time, improve cash flow and revenue, support and manage staff, and improve your overall family communication? Sign-up today for Child Care Aware of ND’s Shared Services Alliance!
Women’s Business Center Business Training
- FREE Business Training and Coaching through the Women’s Business Center. This optional capacity-building opportunity is a 10-week intensive that will focus on the major factors affecting the child care industry today.
- Receive 30 Growing Futures training hours when completing all requirements.
Child Care Management Software
- Free access to a Child Care Management Software. Child Care Management Software will enable contactless check-in/check-out, automate invoicing, tuition collection and payment processing, keep families up to date on their children’s activities, forecast growth opportunities, and create, send and store digital documents.
- Learn More about Procare
- Learn More about Parachute
Learning Beyond Paper Curriculum
- FREE Access to Learning Beyond Paper a Digital Curriculum with 52 weeks of lesson plans. Learning Beyond Paper is aligned with the ND Early Learning Standards and CLASS.
- Receive access to FREE quarterly kits from Lakeshore to support the Learning Beyond Paper curriculum.
SEEDS of Early Learning
SEEDS of Early Learning is an early-literacy and early-language framework that supports childhood educators and other adults in ensuring kindergarten readiness through balanced and quality interactions.
Training cohorts are available for:
- Preschool Teachers
- Infant-Toddler Teachers
- Family Child Care Providers
For more information contact coaching@ndchildcare.org or call 1-800-997-8515 (Option 5)
Child Development Associate (CDA)
The CDA National Credentialing Program is a professional development opportunity for early educators working with children ages birth to 5 years old to demonstrate their knowledge, skills and abilities in the early childhood education field. The CDA credentialing program assesses Candidates using multiple sources evidence, including an exam, observation and professional portfolio with resources and competency statements prepared by the Candidate. Candidates must complete 480 hours of professional work experience with young children and 120 hours of formal early childhood education training with no fewer than 10 training hours in each of the 8 CDA Subject Areas to qualify.
Visit the CDA Council website to learn more about the credentialing process.
For questions regarding CDA or help finding a PD Specialist contact us at pdadvising@ndchildcare.org
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Scholarships
We are currently offering Scholarships to help with receiving your CDA. You are able to apply for the cost of the CDA application fee for an initial CDA or a CDA renewal.
- Steps for Applying for a CDA Scholarship
- Complete all CDA prerequisites
- Complete CDA Scholarship Form
- You will receive an acceptance or denial form
- If accepted you will receive a form that will need to be completed within 5 days.
- Once Child Care Aware® receives the award acceptance form from the applicant you will be sent a voucher number within 3 days *voucher number will be valid for 10 days
- You will have 6 months to schedule your exam and your verification visit
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