CCAoNH April Online Collaborative Topics

Child Care Aware of New Hampshire (CCAoNH), a program of Southern New Hampshire Services, is offering virtual Early Childhood Focused Collaborative Meetings for Directors, Administrators, Teachers, and other Early Childhood Professionals. These Meetings are group-driven to reflect the participant’s needs and interests and to provide participants with information about the focused topics. Professional Development hours earned through these collaboratives can be used for the required 18 hours of training per year. In addition, participants will learn about Child Care Aware of NH program updates, essential local and State information, and other professional development opportunities.

View the flyer for more details about our Early Childhood Focused Collaborative Meetings.

Go to the NHCIS Training Tile to register for an Early Childhood Focused Collaborative Meeting.

Learn more on how to register for training in the New Hampshire Connections Information System (NHCIS) on NHCIS Log-In page on NH Connections.

CCAoNH Early Childhood

Focused Collaborative Meetings

*Infant & Toddler Collaborative

Choose Love

Date: Tuesday, April 2, 2024

Time: 6:00-7:30 PM

Location: Online Zoom Meeting

Facilitator: Lindsey Parisi, ECMPWT

Topic: This month, Dee Dee Thurber, ECMPWT, Program Manager from Child Care Aware of NH, a program of Southern New Hampshire Services will be providing the training: Choose Love, A Social and Emotional Learning Program (and a way of life). In this training, you will learn about the Choose Love Movement. She will share the Choose Love story, talk about the programming and implementation, and also share wonderful resources you may use in your childcare program and share with families.

*This collaborative qualifies for 1.5 hours towards the Infant and Toddler Endorsement for the Early Childhood Professional Development System credential applications.

Family Engagement and Communication Collaborative

Partnerships with Families

Date: Wednesday, April 3, 2024

Time: 1:00-2:30 PM

Location: Online Zoom Meeting

Facilitators: Julie Choiniere, ECMPWT & Karen Abbott, ECMPIM

Topic: This month, we are joined by the Social Emotional Content Coordinator, Stephanie Therrien, from SNHS, Child Care Aware of New Hampshire.

The way we interact with the families in our programs can help build trusting relationships. We can help them adjust to parenthood, find resources they need, and reassure them when they have concerns. In this training, we explore what WE need to be successful with our families. We will discuss the concept of personal bias and how our preconceptions shape our conversations and interactions with families. We will examine our unique culture and how it influences caregiver behavior. We will talk about the unique needs of different family members such as fathers and grandparents who are raising grandchildren. Finally, we will look at program barriers that discourage communication between providers and families and strategies we can use to boost our interactions with other family members.

Preschool Collaborative

Partnerships with Families

Date: Wednesday, April 3, 2024

Time: 6:00-7:30 PM

Location: Online Zoom Meeting

Facilitator: Stephanie Therrien, M.Ed., ECMPWTPC

Topic: This month, we explore what WE need to be successful with our families. We will discuss the concept of personal bias and how our preconceptions shape our conversations and interactions with families. We will examine our unique culture and how it influences caregiver behavior. We will talk about the unique needs of different family members such as fathers and grandparents who are raising grandchildren. Finally, we will look at program barriers that discourage communication between providers and families and strategies we can use to boost our interactions with other family members.

*Business Management Collaborative

A Session with Licensing

Around Challenging Behaviors

Date: Tuesday, April 9, 2024

Time: 1:00-2:30 PM

Location: Online Zoom Meeting

Facilitators: Stephanie Therrien, M.Ed., ECMPWTPC

Topic: This month, Olya Mahoney will be joining us from the Child Care Licensing Unit to talk about some of the licensing regulations that pertain to interacting with children and keeping children safe. She will also share some information regarding what licensing coordinators look for when they visit, regulations around rest time and how to navigate challenging rest time behaviors, and tips and tricks to help teachers and staff navigate challenging behaviors.

*This training qualifies for 1.5 hours towards the required Health & Safety Training.

Family Child Care Collaborative

Lose Control / Letting Go

Date: Thursday, April 11, 2024

Time: 6:00-7:30 PM

Location: Online Zoom Meeting

Facilitator: Connie Davis, ECMPWT

Topic: This month, Dee Dee Thurber, Program Manager at Child Care Aware of NH will be joining us. This workshop is designed to have open, guided conversations about where in your day you can let go or lose control. Children will appreciate fewer interactions/directions and more autonomy throughout the day. Teachers may find more peace, calm, and an easier flow when they can let go of schedules, timelines, and lesson plans, and correct children during social interactions. It can be done AND the children still get everything they need to be successful. This allows the children to guide us in their developmental growth. We will discuss specific scenarios that will look through a lens of control vs a lens of flow.

Social Emotional Topics Collaborative

Visual Strategies Learn & Share

Date: Monday, April 15, 2024

Time: 6:00-7:30 PM

Location: Online Zoom Meeting

Facilitator: Stephanie Therrien, M.Ed., ECMPWTPC

Topic: This month, participants will partake in a Visual Strategies Learn & Share session. During this meeting, participants are asked to bring a resource to share with other participants to take back to their programs. Examples may include: a rules poster they’ve created with children, a scripted story, a daily schedule.

Registration Information:

Registration is free and available through the NHCIS Training Tile.
Registration closes the day before the collaborative.
To register use the “Week View” or Month View” and then choose which session(s) you would like to join. Please note that registration cannot be completed in the “List View”.
On the day of the meeting, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting as well as the evaluation link.
Registration is online only and pre-registration is required.

Information on how to access ZOOM: https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362193-How-Do-I-Join-AMeeting

Questions: Email ccrrtraining@snhs.org or call (603) 578-1386, ext. 2526 and ext. 2532.

Child Care Aware of NH, a program of Southern New Hampshire Services

Child Care Aware of NH is a statewide Child Care Resource and Referral Program of Southern New Hampshire Services. The preparation of this newsletter was financed under a Contract with the State of New Hampshire, Department of Health and Human Services, with funds provided in part by the State of New Hampshire and/or such other funding sources as were available or required, e.g., the United States Department of Health and Human Services.