About Us
County Impact Statements - Columbia County
Providing "The BEST CARE" For Our Children
In Arkansas 69% of the children under the age of 6 live with working parents.
All of these children will need quality child care in order to reach their
physical, social, emotional and intellectual potential. The BEST CARE is a
training program for child care providers that is delivered in a four county
cluster, Columbia, Lafayette,
Nevada , and Hempstead County. These classes fulfill the state requirement
that licensed child care providers must receive ten hours of instruction each
year. The Best Care 2001 offered instruction in Marketing your Program I and II,
How to get parents involved, communicating effectively with parents, Safe food
for young children, Children with special needs, Building a good relationship
with children, Mistaken behavior, Attention Deficit /Hyperactivity Disorder.
Evaluation revealed that childcare providers could identify internal
temperature and visual appearance of food cooked to doneness. Participants in
the class noted that food storage charts were a big help when buying quantity
foods.
The lack of quality childcare impacts the larger societal issues of
education, employment economics and environment. Caring for America’s children
is everyone’s business.
Childcare providers learning skills to use in centers.
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Impacts
- 49 childcare providers trained in Columbia county.
- 23 participants begin to use thermometers to check the doneness of food.
- 9 will start using business cards to market their program.
- 9 first time participants in the 20001 class
- Quality childcare is a critical resource.
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