In this training, Family Child Care Credential: Creating Your Family Child Care Routines and Schedules, participants will learn to describe the importance of routines and schedules in a family child care program, identify essential components of effective routines and schedules, and create sample routines and schedules that will support healthy development, learning, and well-being in a family child care program.

Topics include:

• Importance of Routines and Schedules
• Balancing Needs
• Developing Effective Schedules
• Daily Routines
• Transitions

In this training, Family Child Care Credential: Foundations of Family Child Care Business Operations, participants will learn to describe and identify compliance requirements related to the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (IDCFS) licensing standards for day care homes and group day care homes, identify where to locate essential health and safety requirements for family child care operation, and identify and communicate emergency and disaster preparedness plans and training requirements for family child care providers.

Topics include:

·         Licensing Considerations

·         Training Requirements

·         Insurance Considerations

·         Health and Safety Requirements

·         Emergency Plan Development

Contact Hours: 2 hours          Gateways Content Area: CPD (2 hours)          CDA Content Area: Program Management (2 hours)  

In this training, Family Child Care Credential: Planning Your Family Child Care Environment, participants will learn to describe and identify strategies to create a family child care environment that supports multiple uses, including: providing quality care for a mixed age group of children, managing a successful home business, and meeting the needs of their own family.

Topics include:

• Foundations of effective planning
• Environmental health and safety
  
• Importance of the daily schedule
  
• Planning your outdoor learning environment
• Furniture and material selection

Contact Hours: 2 hours          Gateways Content Area: CPD (2 hours)          CDA Content Area: Program Management (2 hours) 

In this training, Family Child Care Credential: Technology in the Family Child Care Environment: Ensuring Appropriate Use, Security, and Safety, participants will be able to identify strategies that ensure safe, secure, and appropriate use of technology.  You will learn to explore strategies to document as well as communicate through technology in your program.

Topics include:

• Appropriate Use
• Security
  
• Safety
• Using Technology to Document and Plan
• Developing a Technology Policy

Contact Hours: 2 hours          Gateways Content Area: CPD (2 hours)          CDA Content Area: Program Management (2 hours)   

Quality matters in child care.  Learn about the statewide Gateways Training Tiers (GTT) for license exempt family child care providers, a program to help improve quality of care.  The Orientation covers GTT eligibility and training requirements, application process, and supports and resources available.  Providers serving children on the State Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP) may also receive a bonus to the standard payment rate.  A provider must attend this session prior to applying to the Gateways Training Tiers.  

This online course is an introduction to the Illinois Early Learning Guidelines for Birth to Age Three (IELG). The content in this course will cover the history, purpose and role of the Illinois Early Learning Guidelines, aid participants in developing a working knowledge of IELG and provide resources for the implementation of the IELG.

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Welcome to "Infant/Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation: A Guide for Illinois Programs". This training will present an overview of the purpose and role of an Infant/Early Childhood Mental Health Consultant in Illinois child care settings. Participants will be introduced to the different types of consultation and the benefits of adding consultation to their program. Participants will also learn how to access consultation services by using available funding and resources.

Contact Hours: 1      Gateways Content Areas: Family and Community Relationships - FCR (1 hour)     CDA Hours:  6 Professionalism (1 hour)

Midwest Pesticide Action Center, in collaboration with the Illinois Network of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies, has developed an online learning module to provide all Illinois child care providers with an overview of pest control strategies and requirements.  In this presentation, you will become familiar with what the laws are for pest control in child care programs, be provided with a general overview of what Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is, and receive a list of the basic steps for putting an IPM program in place.  Ultimately, the goal of this presentation is to provide you with the tools you need to reduce the exposure of you and the children you care for to pests and pesticides.  

A Systems Framework: Understanding the Process of  I/ECMH Consultation

This module addresses the systems that I/ECMHC interfaces with. Participants will learn about system’s perspectives generally and begin to understand the settings that I/ECMH consultants work within, both formal and informal. The module explores how learning and change take place and supports consultants toward understanding their role and their relationships as change agents toward better child and family outcomes within a systems context.

Contact Hours: 2 Hours  Gateways Content Area: PPD (2hours)  CDA Hours: 6(2 hours)

Attachment Theory: Recognizing Patterns and Behaviors

This module will introduce the learner to attachment theory and its history. Attachment patterns and how they are assessed will be reviewed.  The learner will have the opportunity to observe children with both secure and insecure patterns of attachment through video recordings.  Characteristics of infants and young children with each of the four primary attachment patterns will be described as well as characteristics of caregivers of children in the four primary attachment categories.

Contact Hours: 3 Hours  Gateways Content Area: Personal and Professional Development (2 hours) and Observation and Assessment (1 hour)  CDA Hours: 6- Professionalism (2 hours) and 7-Observing/Recording Behavior (1 hour)

Exploring the Types of I/ECMH Consultation

This module will introduce the learner to the key types of infant/early childhood mental health consultation services and the various settings and contexts to which they apply.  The learner will gain strategies for discerning the level and type of service appropriate for specific referrals for I/ECMHC in different settings to be most effective. The learner will have the opportunity to look at consultation through a varying lens of services by observing a child/classroom setting through video recording.

Contact Hours: 2 Hours  Gateways Content Area: PPD (2hours)  CDA Hours: 6(2 hours)

Supporting Teachers in Consultation by Mastering Principles of Adult Learning Theory

Designed to introduce an understanding of the Principles of Adult Learning in the I/ECMH Consultant’s role. Because adult learners receive information differently, it is important to understand what is required when working with them in consultation. Consultants in this training will build a foundation for their work with teachers by exploring the various types of learning theories and discovering strategies for their use.  Information learned in this training will assist the consultant in supporting teachers’ goals of enhancing children’s social, emotional, and mental development by enhancing the social, emotional, and mental climate of their classroom.

This is the assessment portion of the PITC Module 3: Learning and Development course. Participants will receive credit for the PITC Module 3 training upon completion of this portion of the course. 

Contact Hours: 1

Gateways Content Area & Credential Competency: ITC - HGD1, HGD2, CPD2

Esta es la parte de evaluación del curso Módulo PITC 3: Aprendizaje y desarrollo. Los participantes recibirán crédito por la capacitación del Módulo 3 del PITC al finalizar esta parte del curso.

Horas de contacto: 1

Áreas de contenido de Gateways y Competencia de credenciales: ITC - HGD1, HGD2, CPD2

This is the assessment portion of the PITC Module 3: Learning and Development course. Participants will receive credit for the PITC Module 3 training upon completion of this portion of the course. 

Contact Hours: 1

Gateways Content Area & Credential Competency: ITC - HGD1, HGD2, CPD2

Esta es la parte de evaluación del curso Módulo PITC 3: Aprendizaje y desarrollo. Los participantes recibirán crédito por la capacitación del Módulo 3 del PITC al finalizar esta parte del curso.

Horas de contacto: 1

Áreas de contenido de Gateways y Competencia de credenciales: ITC - HGD1, HGD2, CPD2

This is the assessment portion of the PITC Module 3: Learning and Development course. Participants will receive credit for the PITC Module 3 training upon completion of this portion of the course. 

Contact Hours: 1

Gateways Content Area & Credential Competency: ITC - HGD1, HGD2, CPD2

Esta es la parte de evaluación del curso Módulo PITC 3: Aprendizaje y desarrollo. Los participantes recibirán crédito por la capacitación del Módulo 3 del PITC al finalizar esta parte del curso.

Horas de contacto: 1

Áreas de contenido de Gateways y Competencia de credenciales: ITC - HGD1, HGD2, CPD2

This is the assessment portion of the PITC Module 3: Learning and Development course. Participants will receive credit for the PITC Module 3 training upon completion of this portion of the course. 

Contact Hours: 1

Gateways Content Area & Credential Competency: ITC - HGD1, HGD2, CPD2

Esta es la parte de evaluación del curso Módulo PITC 3: Aprendizaje y desarrollo. Los participantes recibirán crédito por la capacitación del Módulo 3 del PITC al finalizar esta parte del curso.

Horas de contacto: 1

Áreas de contenido de Gateways y Competencia de credenciales: ITC - HGD1, HGD2, CPD2

Preschool children are developing quickly in all areas. This session will discuss how providers can support their development by helping them interact within their worlds on many levels: through their senses, through play, and through movement. Their experiences create a framework for learning that will carry them through later stages of development and into adulthood. 

This Registry-approved training is brought to you by Gateways to Opportunity.

Contact Hours : 2 hours       Gateways Content Area: HGD (2 hours)     CDA Content Area: 8 (2 hours)

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Trauma-Informed Practice for Child Care Providers explores concepts in a variety of areas including infant/early childhood mental health, social emotional development of young children, and trauma and adverse childhood experiences. You will look at indicators and benchmarks and ways to foster social emotional learning  in culturally responsive ways. This training meets the DCFS requirement for trauma-informed care.

Contact Hours: 2 hours    Gateways Content Areas: HSW (2 hours)   CDA Content Areas:  Health & Safety (1 hour) and Social/Emotional (1 hour)

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