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Cooperative Extension Service Departments
Family and Consumer Sciences Programming
Sample News Releases
New Classes for
Child Care Providers
• Especially for
Child Care Providers
• Attention, Child
Care Providers
• News Column
Do you take care of children in your home? Or, do you work in a child care
center? If so, ________________ County Cooperative Extension Service can provide
you with helpful classes.
Extension’s
The Best Care classes will furnish helpful information on learning to set
goals, plan for priorities and schedule activities to maximize the scarce
resource we call "time." You'll learn that by reading children's books and
completing related activities, you can encourage positive conversations about
using money and teach valuable life skills. You will be provided information on
childhood obesity, what you can do to help children achieve a healthy weight,
and ideas for healthy meals and snacks for children. You'll also examine
playground design, equipment safety and playground environment, and be offered
practical strategies for improving playground safety. Learn how to get children
moving in the classroom and outdoors, and how physical fitness contributes to a
positive self-image, self-confidence and creativity. You'll learn the importance
of taking good care of the body. Simple and creative ways to build developmental
assets in young children will be provided to help strengthen your child care
program. The importance of outdoor play and the impact it has on intellectual,
physical, social and emotional development will be discussed. You'll learn how
to set up a science learning center, integrating science into all learning
centers, age-appropriate science activities and the teacher's role in leading
science activities. All of these Cooperative Extension Service classes are
approved by the Division of Child Care and Early Childhood Education for you to
use as credit toward your yearly requirement of training. The Best Care
training is also verified training by the Arkansas Early Childhood Professional
Development System.
The Best Care
classes are free. There is no charge for your attendance. For more information
about participating in The Best Care program contact
________________________ at __________________ or call (phone number) .
This program is open to all interested persons regardless of race, color,
national origin, religion, gender, age, disability, marital or veteran status,
or any other legally protected status. Persons with disabilities who require
alternative means for communication of program information should notify the
county Extension office as soon as possible prior to the activity.
Whether you have recently become a child care provider or have been taking
care of other people’s children for several years, the ____________________
County Cooperative Extension Service can provide you with helpful classes.
These helpful classes are a part of Extensions’ The Best Care
program. The new 2003 classes will furnish helpful information on learning to
set goals, plan for priorities and schedule activities to maximize the scarce
resource we call "time." You'll learn that by reading children's books and
completing related activities, you can encourage positive conversations about
using money and teach valuable life skills. You will be provided information on
childhood obesity, what you can do to help children achieve a healthy weight,
and ideas for healthy meals and snacks for children. You'll also examine
playground design, equipment safety and playground environment, and be offered
practical strategies for improving playground safety. Learn how to get children
moving in the classroom and outdoors, and how physical fitness contributes to a
positive self-image, self-confidence and creativity. You'll learn the importance
of taking good care of the body. Simple and creative ways to build developmental
assets in young children will be provided to help strengthen your child care
program. The importance of outdoor play and the impact it has on intellectual,
physical, social and emotional development will be discussed. You'll learn how
to set up a science learning center, integrating science into all learning
centers, age-appropriate science activities and the teacher's role in leading
science activities.
The Best Care
training will also help you fulfill training hours that licensed child care
providers need each year. The Best Care is verified training through the
Arkansas Early Childhood Professional Development System.
All child care provider classes are provided without charge. For further
information about participating in The Best Care classes, contact
___________________at __________________ or call (phone number) . This
program is open to all interested persons regardless of race, color, national
origin, religion, gender, age, disability, marital or veteran status, or any
other legally protected status. Persons with disabilities who require
alternative means for communication of program information should notify the
county Extension office as soon as possible prior to the activity.
If you are a person who takes care of other people’s children, you will need
to take classes to keep your license up to date. Sometimes it is difficult to
find appropriate classes that are close to home and affordable. The University
of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service, in partnership with the Division of
Child Care and Early Childhood Association, is offering child care training.
Classes are offered free of charge and is verified training through the Arkansas
Early Childhood Professional Development System.
The ___________________ County Cooperative Extension Service has available a
new, free set of classes for child care providers. These classes are part of a
program called The Best Care. Ten hours of lessons will be provided on
topics such as Strategies for Managing Time and Resources; Money on the
Bookshelf; Healthy Weight for Children; Making the Playground a Safe Place to
Play; My Amazing Body; Fitness Fun; Building Developmental Assets in Young
Children; Let's Play Outdoors; and The Preschool Scientist. For more information
about The Best Care classes for child care providers contact
______________________________ or call (phone number)
. This program is open to all interested persons regardless of race, color,
national origin, religion, gender, age, disability, marital or veteran status,
or any other legally protected status. Persons with disabilities who require
alternative means for communication of program information should notify the
county Extension office as soon as possible prior to the activity.
There are over 176,000 children under the age of five in Arkansas. Almost
two-thirds of all Arkansas mothers with children under the age of five are in
the state’s workforce and almost three-fourths (72%) of these children live in
two-parent families. Child care is a daily need for most Arkansas families.
Quality child care is an important issue. The University of Arkansas
Cooperative Extension Service is helping to ensure that Arkansas children
receive quality child care. Extension has developed a series of classes for
child care providers that will be available across the state in 2003.
There are many things that well-informed child care providers need to know.
Strategies for Managing Time and Resources will help providers learn to set
goals, plan for priorities and schedule activities to maximize the scarce
resource we call "time." Learn more about free and/or low-cost resources
available to child care centers and homes. Money on the Bookshelf teaches
children money management skills. By reading children's books and completing
related activities, child care providers can encourage positive conversations
about using money and teach valuable life skills. Healthy Weight for Children
will focus on the growing problem of overweight and obesity among children.
Child care providers will learn information on childhood obesity, what they can
do to help children achieve a healthy weight, and ideas for healthy meals and
snacks for children, activities to teach children about healthy eating and
parent letters to reinforce the lessons.
Making the Playground a Safe Place to Play will examine playground
design, equipment safety and playground environment, and will offer practical
strategies for improving playground safety. Playground accidents are the leading
cause of serious injuries at child care facilities. Fitness Fun will
share activities designed to get children moving in the classroom and outdoors.
Movement is an important element in programs for young children. It promotes
physical fitness and development of the whole child, and it contributes to a
positive self-image, self-confidence, creativity and self-expression. My
Amazing Body will focus on helping children develop an awareness of the body
and how it works. Child care providers will learn the importance of taking good
care of the body. Learn and understand more about specific parts of the body -
heart, lungs and brain - and how they work. Building Developmental Assets in
Young Children will introduce 40 developmental assets that all children need
in order to grow successfully. Child care providers will learn simple and
creative ways to build developmental assets in young children. The information
will help providers strengthen their child care programs and support parents in
building assets at home.
Let's Play Outdoors will focus on the importance of outdoor play and
the impact it has on intellectual, physical, social and emotional development
and how to set up learning centers outdoors. Outdoor play is fun, active,
spontaneous, self-initiated and challenging, and it is closely linked to
learning and development. The Preschool Scientist will focus on setting
up a science learning center, integrating science into al learning centers,
age-appropriate science activities and the teacher's role in leading science
activities. Children are natural scientists who actively seek information about
their world. They try to understand their surroundings through observation and
experimentation.
This information and much more will be available during 10 classroom hours
of instruction in 2003. Child care provider classes will be available all around
the state. There will be no charge for the classes. The Best Care is
verified training through the Arkansas Early Childhood Professional Development
System. Call _________________ at the _______________County Cooperative
Extension Service, at _____________________ for additional information. This
program is open to all interested persons regardless of race, color, national
origin, religion, gender, age, disability, marital or veteran status, or any
other legally protected status. Persons with disabilities who require
alternative means for communication of program information should notify the
county Extension office as soon as possible prior to the activity.
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