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Catalogs

Title	Duration (hours)	Description
Coping with Food Allergies in Child Care Spaces (CDA 1)	2.00	A food allergy is a reaction within the body's immune system. It can be anywhere from mild to severe, and in some cases, it may be life-threatening. We must understand the symptoms and triggers of food allergies, the ways to prevent accidental exposure to prohibited foods, how to care for a child experiencing symptoms. This course is designed to be part of a Child Development Associate (CDA) Credential™ curriculum. It covers CDA Subject Area 1: Planning a Safe, Healthy Environment to Invite Learning. This course can also be taken as a stand-alone learning event, or as part of a broader early childhood education curriculum.
Scaffold and Ladder Safety Training	1.00	This course covers the importance of ladder and scaffold safety, common hazards when using scaffolding and ladders and how to prevent serious injury.
Team Participation: Nonverbal Communication and Active Listening	0.75	This course will focus on how to identify types of nonverbal cues and how they mesh with verbal messages, identify the characteristics of active listening and become an active listener, and respond to input in a productive manner.
Coping with Crying (CDA 1 & 3)	2.00	Babies cry to communicate. In fact, sometimes it's the only way babies can communicate. Coping with crying can be a challenge, especially for people who have little or no experience care for infants. Learning to cope with crying is critical, as infant crying is the number one trigger for shaking a baby. In this course, we will learn about Shaken Baby Syndrome, and about ways to cope with a crying infant. This course is designed to be part of a Child Development Associate (CDA) Credential™ curriculum. It covers CDA Subject Area 1, Planning a Safe and Healthy Environment and CDA Subject Area 3: Supporting Children's Social and Emotional Development. This course can also be taken as a stand-alone learning event, or as part of a broader early childhood education curriculum.
Connection Planning in Long-Term Care	1.00	This module includes training for staff and providers in the importance of social connection and practical strategies learners can use to promote social connectedness in long-term care. The module explains how to implement Connection Planning, a brief, person-centered behavioral intervention for developing resident care plans that address social connection. Connection Planning includes evidence-informed, practical strategies to promote meaningful social connection among residents in long-term care.
Employee Performance: Communication	1.00	Communication is effective when a listener clearly understands a speaker’s message. Good communication fosters a productive exchange of ideas while minimizing the possibility of confusion or misunderstanding. When trying to communicate with a difficult employee, you must be willing to work with that person to correct the problematic behavior. Openly discussing the behavior can help you find a mutually acceptable solution. In this course you will learn to: communicate clearly and effectively by using verbal and nonverbal communication, and improve your listening skills, and communicate with difficult supervisors and coworkers, take a proactive approach when dealing with difficult employees, and identify types of employee dismissals.
Construction Hazards	0.50	This course covers the basics when discussing construction hazards you may see daily when working on a construction site. Preventative measures for falls and falling objects, electrical work, as well as excavations will be discussed throughout.
Construction Safety & Prevention Program: OSHA Inspections	0.50	This course covers the process of OSHA inspections, the penalties incurred when a workplace does not satisfy OSHA standards, and how to properly respond to an OSHA inspection.
Social-Emotional Learning, Character Building & Enhancing Quality	2.00	By the end of this course, you will be able to: Strengthen your understanding of the social-emotional learning and character building that expanded learning programs support. Be able to articulate what social-emotional learning and character development looks like in children and youth. Identify the connection between quality standards and social-emotional learning and character development.
Project Management Essentials: Activities and Dependencies	0.75	This course will focus on how to identify project activities and recognize the types of project activities and the categories of dependencies and dependency relationships, analyze activities by creating an activity analysis form, and estimate the time duration and cost of project activities.
Lemurs	2.00	In this module, you'll learn about the natural history and conservation of a fascinating group of primates: lemurs.
OSTPD - Supporting Attendance through After School Programming	1.00	This training will cover a number of areas regarding how after school programs can support youth attendance in school. By looking at and exploring the connection between after school programming and attendance in school, we see how after school programming supports attendance at school as well as how to coordinate with the school in order to maximize the positive impact of after school on school attendance through collaboration.
Fundamental Tools to Monitor Child Development (CDA 7)	2.00	This course immerses early care and education professionals in the powerful trio of observation, documentation, and assessment. Discover how these tools allow you to closely monitor each child's progress, identify individual needs and interests, and tailor support accordingly. Dive deeper into using assessment activities to refine and elevate the quality of preschool care, ensuring every child reaches their full potential.
Project Teams: Preparing Teams for Project Work	1.00	Building a project team is more complex than assigning employees to the team. Team members must feel a sense of dedication to other team members, as well as to the project itself. Members who are not dedicated to the project team often disregard meetings, deadlines, and commitments, causing the entire team to suffer. To avoid these problems, the team managers and supervisors need to encourage team building to benefit the project, the team members, and the organization. In this course you will learn to: empower and motivate a project team and develop positive culture in a project team, identify the causes of change in a team and manage change, and improve existing project teams.
Reducing Turnover in Childcare Settings: Strategies for Administrators	1.00	This course covers strategies for administrators to reduce turnover in childcare settings. It is just one out of many educational courses we offer. This course will help you develop new knowledge about the childcare setting and help you better understand your role as an administrator.
Business Writing: Formal Proposals	0.75	This course will cover how to create a formal proposal. You will also learn how to add visual elements to a formal proposal, and edit a proposal.
CERT Unit 1: Disaster Preparedness	1.00	The Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) program educates volunteers about disaster preparedness for the hazards that may occur where they live. This course covers the functions of CERT and how CERT fits into your community's emergency preparedness structure. The types of hazards that can affect communities and the hazard's potential to impact people, health, and infrastructure are discussed in this course. In addition, this course also will teach you how to face a potential disaster. It is just one of many health and safety courses we offer. This course will help you learn the best practices for keeping yourself safe and healthy when on the job.
Change Management: Obstacles to Change	0.75	This course will cover how to identify the causes of resistance and the negative reactions to change and the methods for managing them. You will also learn how to identify the causes of complacency and prepare for crisis.
Forklift Safety	1.00	This course covers the proper handling and safe operation of forklift truck machinery. This includes some of the hazards operators face as well as tips for proper load centering and proper load capacities to prevent tip-overs.
Project Management - Basic: Scope Definition, Verification, and Change Control	1.50	This course will cover how to identify the process and benefits of scope definition and verification, and develop a work breakdown structure (WBS) and work package. You will also learn how to identify the types of information that stakeholders need in order to verify a project’s scope, and determine the timing of scope verification. You will be able to better understand how to control changes in project scope, identify the benefits of a scope change control system, and describe why it’s important to create a project database.
Understanding Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) (CDA 3)	2.00	Children who are exposed to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) face an increased risk for social-emotional, physical, and mental health issues. ACEs include abuse, neglect, parental separation or divorce, and other traumatic experiences before the age of eighteen. This course explores the awareness of trauma in young children and families and discusses the role of the early care and education professional in nurturing resilience. This course will help you to better understand ACEs and trauma.
Budgeting: Reviewing Budgets	1.00	A typical budget contains information for a single year and is updated and revised periodically. Each company creates a budget that fits its unique needs. A budget can be used for many purposes, but its primary functions should be to support strategic goals and to help identify when actual results deviate from what was predicted.
Making Your Home A Safer Place	0.75	This course covers household safety. This includes fire and kitchen safety, emergencies, infant safety, and more. This course will help you learn about the best practices for everyone inside the house, from infants to pets. It is just one of the many health and safety courses we offer.
Introduction to Eldercare	2.75	This course will equip you with the essential knowledge to navigate the unique challenges and opportunities that come with caring for older adults.
Project Management - Intermediate: Risk Analysis, Response, and Control	1.00	This course will cover how to identify the goals and benefits of risk assessment and follow the qualitative risk analysis process and how to use the quantitative analysis techniques and draw a decision tree. You will also learn how to follow the risk response process and identify the categories for possible risk response plans and how to use the methods of monitoring and controlling project risks and identify the outcomes of monitoring and control.