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If Not....Check out Early Childhood Ohio.org

Recently added:

Star Rated programs may now purchase any of the marketing items that have been developed for Ohio's Quality Rating System. For ordering details, visit Marketing Items
Additional resources available about Ohio's Child Licensing & Quality System (OCLQS)- new web-based training and user manuals available to help with submitting a SUTQ registration. Visit SUTQ Registration Guidance
Registration for Regional Information Meetings on the New Kindergarten Readiness Assessment (KEA). This new Kindergarten Readiness Assessment (KEA) will replace the KRA-L that was previously administered to children upon entering kindergarten by the public schools.

May is National Asthma and Allergy Awareness Month

For more information about these and other health topics, please contact Sarah Balser (Sbalser@occrra.org or 419-902-9280), your Health Promotion Consultant.

Health Promotion Consultant Training and Technical Assistance services are provided at no-cost to your program. Services are funded through the Ohio Department of Health.

Do you need your Health and Safety Trainings?

The CCRC is offering Child Abuse, First Aid and CPR, and Communicable Disease trainings in May. If you need your trainings before this fall, register for these trainings now. We won't offer them again until September. If you never taken these classes, you need the initial 6-hour trainings. For those who need to renew them, you need the 3-hour review trainings.

May 3 - Child Abuse Recognition, Reporting, and Prevention

(6 hours):

May 17 - Communicable Disease Prevention, Recognition and Management(6 hours):

May 6 - Communicable Disease Review(3 hours):

May 20 - Child Abuse Review (3 hours):

May 31-Pediatric First Aid and CPR

(for initial training or renewal):

The parent-completed Ages & Stages Questionnaires®,

Third Edition(ASQ-3™) is the most accurate, family-friendly way to screen children for developmental delays between one month and 5½ years.

The Child Care Resource Center is a hub for ASQ:3 on-line, where you can track, send electronically and have your questionnaires scored automatically, which in the long run saves your program time & money!

ASQ Information -Click Here

ASQ Memorandum of Understanding -Click Here

Click on the picture above or here to see a fun activity to incorporate into your Cinco de Mayo festivities.

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