CCRN Summer Newsletter and Training Calendar | |
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Greetings Early Learning Educators and Partners,
We hope you all are enjoying the beginning of your summer. Our newsletter includes educational opportunities, fun summer ideas and resources for you to share with the children and the families that you serve. We are also including our robust training calendar to check out. Feel free to reach out to our team if you have any questions or ideas to offer.
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Please welcome Kelly Shepherd, our new CCRN Administrative Assistant!
Kelly comes to us with a great set of experience and knowledge that includes working as an Academic Assistant and achieving his Bachelor's in Journalism at the University of Oregon. His hobbies include sports, hiking and travel. A dream of his is to travel throughout Europe. We are excited to have Kelly join our team!
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CCRN – Days closed during summer 2024:
The office will be closed on 7/4 and 9/2.
Spread the word: If you know of anyone who would like to be included in this newsletter, please encourage them to reach out to the CCRN team at ccrn@soesd.k12.or.us, and we will add them to the list. We also enjoy hearing from you. Please reach out anytime if you have any ideas that we can share in our next newsletter, including success stories!
We all wish you a cheerful and productive summer!
Candelaria, Cynthia, Devon, Katrina, Kelly, Kevin, Lorena, Louise, Martha, Molly
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Local Training Opportunities!! | |
Upcoming FCCO Provider Portal Training Sessions!
Did you know you can update your program information and available openings yourself?!
This quarter, we will be offering monthly training sessions to introduce providers to the portal and talk about what and how you can update your program's information.
The Find Child Care Oregon Provider Portal gives you access to your FCCO program profile and allows you to update your program’s information at any time.
You have access to update information such as:
- Referral Status
- Contact Information
- Operational Days & Hours
- Age Groups Served
- Enrollment
- Vacancies
- Message for families
- Pictures
Watch your email closely for upcoming dates and times for the portal trainings!
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The 2024 Market Price Study is Happening Soon!
In the monthly Provider Portal trainings, we will also discuss the upcoming Market Price Study.
The Market Price Study summarizes child care prices, local supply, and demand across the state based on the data collected through the Market Price Survey. This study fulfills the federal requirement that the state complete a market price survey every two years.
The Market Price Survey is a collective effort across the state to gather information about the price and supply of child care in Oregon. It is a survey for all child care providers in the state, and your input is invaluable. By sharing information about your child care program, you are directly contributing to your community's understanding of the price of child care in Oregon. Your participation is not just important, it's essential.
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SOREN Summit August 5-9, 2024 | |
SOREN is organizing the first annual Summit, which will take place during the week of August 5-9. Over 60 courses will be offered simultaneously in Jackson, Josephine, and Klamath Counties - and every one of them aims to bring us closer to creating school environments where more people feel safe, know they matter, and experience belonging.
All of the courses are an answer to calls to connect with one another and to engage in professional learning that is so meaningful and relevant that we are driven to attend - not because we are required to, but because we want to.
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ROOTED BEGINNINGS:
A 2 day ECE session in Josephine County at the Grants Pass Highschool Library
August 5th and 6th, 2024.
Cultivating Community and Fostering Independence in Early Childhood for ECE teachers and childcare professionals working with children 0-6 years, preschool and childcare administrators, and counselors.
How can we encourage children to build a strong sense of self and empathy for others within their community? We will explore essential foundations and practical tools anchored in the latest brain science research, trauma and attachment theory, and social emotional learning practices.
Woven throughout the workshop we will explore the impact of power and inequities and ways to move towards more anti-racist practices for our youngest learners.
We will explore how to:
- Understand behavior as communication so we can support young children building socially helpful ways to communicate.
- Strengthen our own self-regulation and co-regulation skills to create safe classroom environments.
- Apply a trauma-responsive and equity-focused lens so that we can better support our early learners.
- Build children’s capacity for independence and agency and lay foundations to build compassion and empathy.
Gain new ideas to help early learners | Regulate their bodies and brains | Build emotional and feelings vocabulary | Connect with peers and caregivers | Begin to problem solve independently | Grow age-appropriate communication skills.
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Southern Oregon Children's Festival | |
CHILDREN'S FESTIVAL 2024
JULY 13-15, 2024
Britt Gardens Jacksonville, Oregon
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The Storytelling Guild proudly presents the 58th Annual Children’s Festival
This innovative 3-day event will bring out the creativity of both the young and young at heart as it has for generations. Be prepared for lots of hands-on fun with over 30 arts & crafts booths including, clay, face painting, science, gold panning, leather, carpentry, storytelling, child-focused stage performances, and much, much more! You won't want to miss these fun-filled days of family entertainment!
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DELC and NAEYC Information | |
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Child Care Infrastructure Fund (CCIF)
Are you interested in opening a child care facility or making improvements to your existing child care program and have a need for more funding to support the costs?
Please join us to learn more about the Child Care Infrastructure Fund (CCIF) Application and Technical Assistance supports that are available to you.
The Department of Early Learning and Care is hosting an informational webinar about CCIF on Monday, July 1, 2024 from 6:30-7:00pm!
You must register in advance to attend the webinar at the following link:
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NAEYC Liability Insurance Survey
NAEYC recently launched a new national survey designed to learn more about the specific challenges programs are facing in accessing and affording liability insurance, informed by their January survey, several recent state surveys, and conversations they have had with educators, experts, and state advocacy stakeholders from across the country. For this survey, NAEYC is specifically targeting responses from individuals in programs who are responsible for decisions regarding liability coverage. If that is you, please take the time to help further our understanding by taking the survey.
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Summer Activities for Children and Families!! | | |
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10 Ways to Recharge This Summer!
Whether you're working or not over the summer, we encourage you to try out these 10 simple ways to recharge. Read the whole article at the link below:
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Ideas to Encourage Learning This Summer with NAEYC!
Make the most out of summer by providing opportunities for young children to learn and play!
Discover these resources to provide learning experiences through nature explorations, at home learning, and more!
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Please Remember that to receive credit for a training session you must:
- Attend the session (this is verified by the training attendance report)
- Be active in the chat of that session (this is verified by reviewing the saved chat)
- PRE-Registered through CCRN
If attending a CCRN webinar, rather than a statewide webinar, you can participate by either: being active in the chat, unmuting yourself and speaking, and/or keeping your camera on. You must participate in some way, or you will not receive credit.
If you share the link to a session with your co-worker who has not pre-registered through CCRN we will not know to look for them in the attendance report and the chat, and they will not receive credit for the session in ORO.
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If you have attended a training session and have not received credit, please feel free to contact us at CCRN and we can look into this further for you!
To register for a training session please click the link below to register through our online registration form or you can call the CCRN training request line at 541-776-6768.
Please reach out with any questions you may have! You can reach CCRN's Main Office Number at 541-776-8590 x1126.
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Always Remember We are Here to Help! | |
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Please reach out to Child Care Resource Network with questions or for assistance with your child care program. Consider joining a Focused Child Care Network and participating in Spark. There are lots of opportunities out there for professional growth and development and we are here to help.
We wish you a bright and fun-filled Summer!
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