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This Family Child Care at Its Best workshop focuses on the essential role of
play for children. The workshop:

• Offers practical strategies for supporting play in home-based settings.

• Highlights how play supports learning and development, including executive function, physical development, and social–emotional skills.

• Provides resources to share about the power of play with families.

Complete the next step in becoming a FCCB Partner Facilitator. Each Partner Facilitator Curriculum course covers one FCCB curriculum topic. Participants will review curriculum facilitation demonstrations online and attend a live Zoom session to practice facilitating the topic. Following successful completion participants will receive access to that FCCB curriculum topic, and permission to facilitate workshops using the curriculum materials. Registration is by invitation only, and is limited to those who have already completed Introduction to Family Child Care at Its Best for Partner Facilitators.

Begin the two-step process to become a FCCB Partner Facilitator and facilitate FCCB workshops for your local community. This course provides the foundational knowledge for facilitating adult learning in diverse groups, and implementing the Family Child Care at Its Best (FCCB) curriculum. After completing this course, you will be eligible to enroll in topic-specific FCCB Partner Facilitators Workshop Curriculum courses.

This Family Child Care at Its Best workshop explores the many purposes of informal and formal observation in early learning programs. Participants will learn to critically analyze assessment tools and explore ways to use their observations to support children, families, and program development.

This Family Child Care at Its Best workshop explores the origins of children’s behavior, including how biological factors, early learning settings, family dynamics, and the greater community influence a child’s social emotional development.

This Family Child Care at Its Best workshop explores a preventative approach to challenging behavior and ways to plan activities that promote pro-social skills. Specific strategies are shared for using the environment and adult-child interaction to facilitate friendship and build community.

This Family Child Care at Its Best workshop focuses on the emotional impact of loss and trauma on young children and explores the provider’s role in helping children cope with stressful events, such as divorce, separation, and changing caregivers.

This Family Child Care at Its Best workshop focuses on the movement and perceptual-motor skills that young children are naturally motivated to learn and practice. Participants will explore how early brain development and strong caregiver relationships support children’s lifelong health and well-being.

This Family Child Care at Its Best workshop explores the concept of risk perception and how it varies across individuals and cultures. The workshop highlights how appropriate risk supports children’s physical, cognitive, and social development and offers strategies to promote positive risk-taking.

Supports the multiple roles of the home-based child care provider by reflection, thinking, and planning for quality home-based programs. Self-assess areas of growth opportunities and formulate an action plan to implement in the home care setting.

This Family Child Care at Its Best workshop focuses on the movement and perceptual-motor skills that young children are motivated to learn and practice. Participants explore how brain development and responsive caregiver-child relationships support healthy development and lifelong well-being.

This Family Child Care at Its Best workshop focuses on supportive communication and hands-on activities that help children develop healthy behaviors, make nutritious food choices, practice personal safety, and build good oral health habits.

This Family Child Care at Its Best workshop offers an opportunity to discuss how providers can include children with special needs in their programs, with a focus on approaches for collaborating with families.

This Family Child Care at Its Best workshop provides an opportunity to learn skills that maximize providers’ ability to establish healthy communication and trust with parents and other caring adults in the lives of children.

This Family Child Care at Its Best workshop explores the different ways young children become bilingual, the advantages of being bilingual, and the myths and truths related to this topic.

Gain increased understanding and competence in methods for supporting emerging language and literacy capabilities, using a child-centered approach, and developing and offering a print-rich environment.

This Family Child Care at Its Best workshop explores how children learn written language conventions, such as how letters are shaped and used together to form words. Participants will learn developmentally appropriate strategies and techniques to encourage and support writing for all children, including both native and non-native English speakers.

This Family Child Care at Its Best workshop examines ways to provide a rich science environment for children. Participants will explore everyday science and practice principles of inquiry and documentation to enhance discovery and scientific learning.

This Family Child Care at Its Best workshop explores ways to create a rich math environment for all children. Participants will explore techniques for building children’s early math knowledge and skills.

This Family Child Care at Its Best workshop focuses on the emotional, social, intellectual, and physical development of infants and toddlers, and on the caregiver’s supportive role. Participants will deepen their understanding of how relationships shape learning and development.

This Family Child Care at Its Best workshop focuses on the impact of culture in the lives of children, families, and child care providers. Participants will explore their role establishing daily routines and practices that support development and help each child form a healthy cultural identity.

This Family Child Care at Its Best workshop examines the social-emotional characteristics, biological traits, and environmental influences that shape children’s behavior. Participants build understanding of behavior as communication and explore practical strategies to help children manage their behavior.