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About Us
County Impact Statements - Marion County
Child Care Providers Improve Skills to Provide "Best Care" for
Children
Who is taking care of our children? In Marion county, there are 810 children
under age five. Because of the high number of working mothers, many of these
children are in the care of other family members, neighbors, and various others.
Finding quality care is real problem for many parents. There are only nine
licensed child care centers and seven licensed family child care homes in Marion
county.
Licensed child care providers, in order to maintain their license, must
participate in ten hours of continuing education each year. The "Best Care’
curriculum, offered by the Cooperative Extension Service, is designed to deliver
classes that keep them up to date on subject matter and methods that help them
become more effective in providing quality child care.
In 2001, 32 Marion county child care providers participated in the "Best
Care" training classes. Classes were conducted providing information of topics
such as: Caring for Children with Special Needs, Recognizing and Dealing with
Attention Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder, Getting Parents Involved and
Communicating with Parents, Providing Safe Food for Children, and Building Good
Relationships with Children.
Child Care Providers learn skill to improve care of children.
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Impacts
- Thirty-two Child Care Providers learned the basics of preparing safe
food for children.
- Twenty-eight Child care Providers indicated that they had applied
lessons they had learned.
- Thirty-two Child care Providers indicated that they had improved their
care of children as a result of participating in "Best Care" classes.
- Thirty-two Child Care Providers indicated they planned to apply the
guidance techniques learned.
- Thirty-two Child Care Providers indicated they had a better
understanding of children with special needs.
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