August 24, 2022


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Welcome to the
ELRC 8, 9, & 10 Newsletter
Your source for all relevant resources, updates, PD, and events
relating to Child Care and School Age Care in your region!
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ECE Recap - August 22nd

Market Rate Survey Responses

Recorded Market Rate Survey webinar

Action Required for Regulatory Compliance

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ELRC Learning Opportunities
CACFP and Nutrition

Nutrition Tips for National Breastfeeding Month

This breastfeeding tip sheet on consuming seafood and beverages, healthy food options, physical activity, avoiding, and daily food checklists. This plan helps with figuring out what and how much to eat when breastfeeding. This handout provides facts and suggestions on healthy seafood options to consume when breastfeeding.

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Tips for Challenging Moments

3. Chat Children's brains light up when you talk, sing, or make sounds back and forth with them. Chat about your day, food, and what's around you, or string sounds together for a fun conversation! 4. Take Turns Children learn from taking turns when you play, talk, or explore.

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Community Partners
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion

EmbraceRace Communities of Learning and Practice: Sept-Nov 2022

Join EmbraceRace for a community of learning and practice (COLP) series, " Organizing in Defense of Early Racial Learning in Our Schools and Communities." Conversations will focus on what healthy, developmentally appropriate teaching and learning about race looks like in early and middle childhood and how to come together to promote antibias, antiracist education practices.

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Gender expression in early childhood [Podcast]

This week on The Preschool Podcast, we are excited to welcome Samuel Broaden, Trainer/Consultant at Honoring Childhood. Samuel is passionate about giving children the best childhood possible. He aspires to be the adult that he feels would have been amazing for him to have when he was younger.

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Social-Emotional Learning

"Let the child be the scriptwriter, the director and the actor in his own play." - MAGDA GERBER

THE WISDOM OF MAGDA GERBER

seeing infants with new eyes

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Health, Safety, & Wellness

Happiness Break: Walk Your Way to Calm (Guided Meditation)

Dacher Keltner I'm Dacher Keltner. Welcome to your Happiness Break, where on each episode we do a practice to make us feel happier and we learn about the science behind why it works. So often in life, we're totally unaware of how our bodies are feeling, the sensations, the movements.

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School Age Providers

Nominate an Afterschool Champion | EMPOWER 2022 - November 30, 2022

EMPOWER 2022 by Center for Schools and Communities on November 30, 2022. Lancaster County Convention Center and Lancaster Marriott at Penn Square, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Register now, and learn more!

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Parents & Families

How Children Think About Their Own Well-Being Online

Sometimes, as parents, we can't help but think that digital devices swallow our children whole, consuming them and shutting us out. Online interactions can be a source of discontent, rife with virtual-world put-downs that nevertheless trigger very real-world emotions.

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Professional Development: on the PD Registry
Professional Development: Other Opportunities

8/25- Enhancing the recruitment and retention of quality staff through culturally responsive practices 

Join us on Thursday, August 25th at 2 PM ET as we welcome Jeron Bailey! Jeron is a strategic ECE project manager and consultant who focuses primarily on improving retention and inclusive practices in childcare programming. She will be joining us to share her expertise on how childcare centers can enhance the recruitment and retention of quality staff through culturally responsive practices.

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9/1- Racial Justice Resources to Promote Social and Emotional Skills Webinar Series.

Join Sesame Street in Communities for a 3-part webinar series supporting early childhood staff in building social-emotional skills for young children by talking about race and diversity. Sign up for one (or all) of the webinars to learn more about celebrating identities, community building, and resolving conflicts with resources designed specifically for young children, their families, and the staff that care for them.

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9/15- A Financial Checkup for Your Child Care Program, by Kathe Petchel - Early Childhood Webinars

Sigh! Your child care program's finances: So critical, and yet often the hardest part of your job! If only there were a few key principles that could help making your budget easier to develop, manage, and most of all balance with reliable revenue growth!

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Additional Online Training Opportunities
Additional News Sources

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