Best Care training will give childcare providers an opportunity to enhance their proven childcare program and help meet educational requirements with continuing education. Childcare providers, foster parents, teachers, and police officers are invited to attend.
The University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture Cooperative Extension Family and Consumer Sciences Agents, Hazelene McCray, Drew County, and Michelle Carter, Bradley County, will be providing 10 hours of “The Best Care” Child Care Provider Training on Saturday, March 11, at the UAM Forestry Building located at 110 University Court, Monticello, AR 71655.
Registration will begin at 7:30 a.m., with Best Care training starting promptly at 8:00 am and will end at 6:00 pm. Participants are asked to bring their own lunch. Healthy snacks will be provided.
Topics include:
• Body Positivity
• Good Nutrition Counts on Basic Math Skills
• Importance of Immunizations
• Literacy in Early Childhood
• Money as You Grow
• Guidance
• Kindergarten Readiness
• Engaging Children in Physical Activity
• Observation in Early Childhood
• Professionalism
Best Care training will be provided free of charge. A total of 10 credit hours can be earned for attending the entire day. One credit is earned for each hour-long session you attend. Don’t miss this opportunity for learning!
Pre-registration deadline is March 8. Call Hazelene McCray, Drew County Family and Consumer Sciences Agent at (870) 460-4270 or e-mail hmccray@uada.edu to pre-register.
The University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture offers all its Extension and Research programs to all eligible persons regardless of race, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, religion, age, disability, marital or veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected status, and is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.