All the training modules are Gateways Registry Approved and will appear in your Gateways Professional Development Record (PDR).
Many of these courses can be found in other categories such as ExceleRateTM Illinois training, DCFS Licensing Required training, and training modules for Registry Trainers and ITN Trainers. You can search for a specific course using the search box above.
For additional organizations offering Gateways Registry Approved training, please visit the Additional Training page.
This course is designed to introduce CCR&R staff to the Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP). Topics include an overview of the program, clients and providers, payments, and a brief explanation of the application process.
Contact Hours: 1 Hour Gateways Content Areas: PPD (1 hour) CDA Content Areas: PRO (1 hour)
Early childhood is a time when children are rapidly developing motor skills and establishing habits and behaviors around physical activity. Early Care & Education (ECE) professionals and environments play a key role in supporting active play, and nurturing a joy of movement. This PALS+ training is designed for ECE leaders, agency staff, coaches, and technical assistants. The PALS+ content explores the best practices for physical activity in ECE settings and presents strategies to increase the quality and quantity of physical activity children experience while in care. Participants take away talking points and messaging around active play.
PALS+ is made possible with funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, administered by the Illinois Public Health Institute in collaboration with partners in the Illinois Alliance to Prevent Obesity.
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)
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Considerations
This module is an extension of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion module of the Infant/Early Childhood Mental Health Consultant orientation and to further explore Competency 3 of the IL Model of I/ECMHC, an Ability to Work Effectively Throughout Diverse Cultures and Communities. This module will investigate what diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) mean for the I/ECMHC and how to put these considerations into practice. This module places a heavy emphasis on self-reflection and journaling.
Contact Hours: 3 Hours Gateways Content Area: PPD (3 hours) CDA Hours: 6(3 hours)
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)
Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultant’s Way of Being
The “Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultant’s
Way of Being” training offers an individual instruction in providing
consultation to early childhood professionals in home visiting, center-based,
family child care homes, and school-based early childhood programs. This training describes the set of competencies
required by I/ECMH Consultants that are based on Georgetown University’s Center
of Excellence for Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation. Participants will also explore the Consultative Stance adopted for use by
I/ECMH Consultants using the Illinois Model for Consultation.
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.
Contact Hours: 2 Hours Gateways Content Area: PPD (2hours) CDA Hours: 6(2 hours)Supporting the Stressed-Out Early Educator: Managing Stress and Children’s Behaviors in the Early Education Setting
This training is designed for Illinois Infant/Early Childhood Mental Health Consultants wishing to deepen their understanding of stress and how it impacts the early educator and the children that they serve. In addition, participants will explore the importance of having a trauma-informed and relationship-focused approach when managing children’s behaviors often associated with stress or adding to the stress that educators experience. Participants will utilize reflective practice as a means to explore these topics and will require participants to challenge their current perspectives on challenging classroom behaviors.
Contact Hours: 2 Hours Gateways Content Area: PPD (2hours) CDA Hours: 6(2 hours)
The Role of the Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Professional
This module will discuss the services
offered by infant and early childhood mental health informed professionals as
well as the skills and strategies used by infant and early childhood mental
health professionals in working with infants, young children, and
families.
Contact Hours: 2 Hours Gateways Content Area: PPD (2hours) CDA Hours: 6(2 hours)
Thinking Through the Business Aspects of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation
This training provides Infant/Early Childhood
Mental Health Consultants with information and resources to assist them in
working successfully as an independent contractor. Key concepts include the
differences between working as an agency employed consultant and providing your
services as an independent contractor. We will explore ways you can assess your
preferred style of work, specific information on the essential business aspects
of independent consulting, and ways to keep accurate records and documentation
of your work. After this training, participants will have a deeper understanding of these
key concepts and others that will help you make decisions and get started in
the work as an independent consultant in Illinois.
Contact Hours: 2 Hours Gateways Content Area: PPD (2hours) CDA Hours: 6(2 hours)
What is Infant/Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation?
This training will define Infant/Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation (/IECMHC), and explore various aspects of the history, components, and effects. This module will explain how I/ECMHC operates through a systems perspective, providing a range of services and strategies to create, strengthen, and maintain a supportive environment that enhances the social and emotional development of all infants and young children. I/ECMHC works within and across all child-serving settings (e.g., early care and education, home visiting, child welfare, child care, and at times primary care settings.)
Contact Hours: 2 Hours Gateways Content Area: PPD (2hours) CDA Hours: 6(2 hours)
In this training, 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. **Taking this training will not earn you a Family Child Care Credential. That process involves working with a Credentials Counselor.**
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In this training, Culturally Responsive Family Child Care Environments, participants will be able to describe the the foundations of culturally responsive practice, identify the importance of cultural responsiveness within family child care environments, and identify strategies that support positive, multi-aged relationships. **Taking this training will not earn you a Family Child Care Credential. That process involves working with a Credentials Counselor.**
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Contact Hours: 2 hours Gateways Content Area: IRE (2 hours) CDA Content Area: Program Management (2 hours)
In this training, Developmentally Appropriate Technology Use in Your Family Child Care Home, participants will review guidelines and research about developmentally appropriate technology use, identify strategies for incorporating technology into their family child care home, and explore technology resources for their program. **Taking this training will not earn you a Family Child Care Credential. That process involves working with a Credentials Counselor.**
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In this training, 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. **Taking this training will not earn you a Family Child Care Credential. That process involves working with a Credentials Counselor.**
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Contact Hours: 2 hours Gateways Content Area: CPD (2 hours) CDA Content Area: Program Management (2 hours)
In this training, 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. **Taking this training will not earn you a Family Child Care Credential. That process involves working with a Credentials Counselor.**
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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.
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Contact Hours: 2 hours Gateways Content Area: CPD (2 hours) CDA Content Area: Program Management (2 hours)
The Early Math Counts training program is a series of eight courses focusing on early math content and application in settings that provide care and education for young children. The Introduction will provide you with information regarding the importance early math skills and knowledge for young children, an overview of the major content areas in early math and an orientation to the Early Math Counts Professional Development series, as well as a tour of the many resources available on the Early Math Counts site.
This training provides 1 contact hour of Gateways Registry-Approved training and 1 Continuing Professional Development Unit (CPDU).
Contact Hours: 1 hour Gateways Content Areas: CPD (1 hour) CDA Content Areas: PI (1 hour)
Making Sense of Number Sense is the second course in an eight-part series designed to support math competencies in teachers of young children. Please make sure to take the orientation course before taking this 2nd course in the series. The development of strong skills associated with this broad concept is indicative of later mathematical achievement as well as later success in school. Much of what we will cover in this module is foundational and is used in other mathematical areas. As you move through the rest of the Math at Home modules, you will see how Number Sense informs other broad mathematical concepts.
This training provides 1 contact hour of Gateways Registry-Approved training and 1 Continuing Professional Development Unit (CPDU).
Please make sure to take the following Early Math Counts Professional Development Program course before you take this course:Course 1: Introduction
Contact Hours: 1 hour Gateways Content Areas: CPD (1 hour) CDA Content Areas: PI (1 hour)
