Additional Resources
The following organizations and programs provide other information and/or professional development opportunities. For a listing of professional development activities (workshops, conferences, trainings, courses and meetings) in your area, contact the area's community child care support agency.
- Early Childhood Professional Membership Organizations- Each of these organizations invites you to become a dues paying member who receives benefits. These vary but some of them include access to services, a professional journal, membership card, discounted attendance at the organization’s conferences, etc.
- State
of Vermont Department of Developmental and Mental Health Services- This link will take you to the Vermont Training & Technical
Assistance Calendar and the Consultation Resources for People who
Work with Children and Adolescents with Emotional/Behavioral Challenges
and their Families.
http://www.ddmhs.state.vt.us/training/training.shtml
- Vermont Department of Education- This link will take you to the Vermont Department of Education's overview of early childhood programs and services http://www.state.vt.us/educ/new/html/pgm_earlyed.html
- Vermont Out Of School Time (VOOST)- The VOOST Network is a group of organizations working in partnership to build and support accessible, high quality, out-of-school time learning opportunities for young people in Vermont. http://www.voost.org/
- Vermont School Age Care Network (VSACN)- The Vermont School Age Care Network (VSACN) is dedicated to increasing opportunities for and improving the quality of school age care in Vermont. VSACN members receive valuable services such as networking opportunities, technical assistance and professional development. http://www.voost.org/VSACN-home.html
- NAEYC’s
Professional Development- The National Association for
the Education of Young Children is an organization of early childhood
professionals and others dedicated to improving the quality of early
childhood education programs for children birth through age eight.
http://www.naeyc.org/profdev/default.asp
- National Association for Family Child Care- (NAFCC) The mission of NAFCC is to support the profession of family child care and to encourage high-quality care for children. NAFCC has promoted high-quality family child care through accreditation, leadership training, technical assistance, public education, and policy initiatives. NAFCC holds an annual national conference and publishes a quarterly newsletter. http://www.nafcc.org/accred/accred.html
- Vermont Child Care Apprenticeship Program- This program offers caregivers the chance to apprentice in an accredited program under the supervision of an experienced, trained mentor. You will take college level courses; receive on the job training and an increase in your salary as you move through this program. Funded through a grant from the United States Department of Labor and the Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training, its' purpose is to create a supply of stable, high quality child care programs. http://www.vtchildcareindustry.org/
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