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Title	Duration (hours)	Description
Permit-Required Confined Spaces	1.00	This course covers the safety basics while working in permit-required confined spaces. You will learn the differences between a confined space and a permit-required space, as well as how to identify potential hazards in confined spaces and the safeguards that go along with them.
Effective Communication with Children and Youth	2.00	We are constantly communicating with the children and youth in our program through our words and actions. It's important for program staff to think critically about their communication skills and habits in order to communicate effectively. During this course, participants will learn about effective and dynamic communication tools, strategies to check for understanding, and activities that engage children and youth in communication.
GED: Math - Unit 5: Coordinate Plane	1.00	Welcome to Unit 5: Coordinate Plane. If you've ever graphed points, or read a graph, you've worked with the coordinate plane. In this unit, we'll learn about points, the lines that connect them, and the equations used to create them.
Managerial Leadership: Defining Employee Roles and Priorities	1.50	A vision is created by an organization to inspire its members to work together to reach for an ideal of what the organization can become. The members of the organization should use the vision as the standard to determine the day-to-day functions of their individual roles. The vision is the guide to use every time an action is taken, a decision is made, or a plan is developed to improve the organization or the people in it. An organization’s vision should enable the members in every role to do what is in the best interest of the organization. In this course you will learn to: determine leader roles and strengthen employee roles, and align employee priorities and evaluate employee performance.
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.
Safe Infant Sleep: SIDS and the Safe Infant Sleep Position	1.00	This course is focused on the American Academy of Pediatrics’ best practice recommendations for reducing the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and Sudden Unexpected Infant Death (SUID) and for promoting safe sleep in infant care settings. Course Learning Objectives: Define Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and Sudden Unexpected Infant Death (SUID), and their relationship to safe infant sleep in infant care settings. Identify safe infant sleep position and safe sleep environments.
SIDS and Other Sleep-Related Infant Deaths: Keeping Babies Safe	1.50	This course will give participants a brief overview of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and other sleep-related deaths. Participants will learn about recent research and statistics, the importance of child care providers, AAP SIDS Task Force recommendations, and how to implement polices in child care.
Advanced Interpersonal Communication: Organizational Culture	1.34	An organizational culture is the personality of an organization. This personality is both determined and accepted by the organization’s members. For example, an organization might have a culture that is youthful, energetic, and fast-paced. In this type of culture, decisions are made quickly, and employees are empowered to take action in a wide variety of situations. Another organization might be more straight-laced and policy-oriented. This organization would be much more formal and serious in the way it does business. It is important to recognize and understand the culture of an organization, so that you can determine your fit with the organization. In this course you will learn: to determine the nature of an organization’s culture, to use the cultural network to your advantage, and identify the characteristics of the roles exhibited in the network, to identify the elements of physical culture that affect interpersonal communication, and to identify the ways in which managers can build a positive culture.
GED: Social Studies - Unit 5: Post-Test	0.25	Welcome to Unit 5: Post-Test. This post-test covers civics and government, US history, economics, and world geography. At the end of this post-test is a table that matches each test question to the content it covers. Use it to review and content you haven't mastered.
Organizational Communication: Power, Politics, and Diversity	0.75	Power is the ability to influence someone to do something that they would not do without encouragement. Various types of power and power strategies depend on the level of influence. The existence of different levels of power in an organization gives rise to organizational politics. Politics can arise between individuals who differ from each another. To avoid confrontation arising from differences, it is important for people to recognize the benefits of diversity within their organization. In this course you will learn to: identify different levels and types of power, identify strategies to manage diversity and to communicate in different cultures, and identify the steps and guidelines for empowerment.
Multi-Age Learning and Interaction (CDA 1 & 5)	2.00	This course explores the dynamic world of mixed-age childcare groupings. Discover how these environments expand learning opportunities for children of all stages, fostering social, emotional, and cognitive development. Delve into the benefits for both children and adults, including a deeper understanding of individual learners and intentional support facilitated through multi-age interactions. Navigate the advantages, challenges, and unique considerations of working with mixed-age groups, equipping yourself to create a thriving learning space for all.
Creativity and Innovation: Personal Creativity	1.34	Creativity is often considered a talent that some people have. Actually, creativity's a skill that everyone can nurture through exercise and practice. You can prepare yourself both mentally and physically to be creative. In this course you will learn to: prepare yourself mentally and physically to be creative, and use your experiences, innocence, intuition, and sense of adventure to increase your creativity.
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.
Preventing Violence at the Workplace	0.50	This course covers the basics of workplace violence protection, including the four types of workplace violence and the appropriate responses to each.
Sales: Qualifying	0.50	In this course, you will learn how to improve your listening skills to better understand customers’ needs and decision-making criteria. You will also learn how to use questioning techniques to help customers recognize the benefits of your products and services.
Reducing Foodborne Illness Risk Factors in Food Service and Retail Establishments	0.50	This course covers different risk factors that are insufficiently controlled in institutions, retail food, and restaurants. Recommendations to help these places control these risk factors are also given.
GED: Reasoning Through Language Arts - Unit 7: The Extended Response	1.00	Welcome to Unit 7: The Extended Response. The last part of the RLA section is the Extended Response, or essay. Here's how it works. You'll be given something to read - a source text or texts - and asked to write an essay in response to a prompt related to the reading. In this unit, we'll learn about two types of essays and take a look at an example of each one.
Understanding the Behavior of Children and Youth	2.00	The development of children and youth can cause them to behave in ways that can be trying for even the most knowledgeable and experienced staff. When staff understands what is driving the behavior, they can help to guide and encourage acceptable behaviors. This course will provide participants with the knowledge and skills necessary to prevent unwanted behavior by meeting the needs of children and youth before they act out.
Moderate to Vigorous Physical Activity (MVPA) (CDA 2)	2.00	This course tackles the sobering reality that 25% of children lack enough moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) in their daily lives. It explores the crucial role MVPA plays in fostering healthy habits, happiness, and overall well-being. Discover evidence-based strategies to ignite movement in children, empowering them to develop strength, maintain a healthy weight, and cultivate lifelong vitality.
Engaging Middle School Youth in College & Career Readiness	1.00	This course will introduce participants to the College & Career Readiness Toolkit, developed by the Maryland Out-of-School Time (MOST) Network, as well as developmentally appropriate activities and considerations for implementing college & career readiness with middle school youth in an out-of-school time setting.
Presentation Methods and Debriefing Activities	2.00	There is no "one size fits all" approach to working with children and youth, and this is especially true when it comes to how we present and debrief activities. During this course, participants will understand the importance of the delivery and debriefing of an activity to help children and youth make meaning, as well as some specific methods that can be incorporated into the program right away.
Sales Management: Forecasting Sales Revenue	0.50	This course will focus on identifying sales forecast factors and types of sales forecasts as well as discussing various types of forecasting approaches.
I Belong: Supporting Social Awareness and Interpersonal Skills	2.00	We all have lived full lives with varied experiences, both positive and negative. Whether we are aware or not, our experiences, including our social, political and cultural beliefs and background, affect our practice with youth. During this course, participants will learn about how culturally grounded beliefs and background affect our practice with youth, how to help raise our awareness of those factors, and reflect on current and new strategies that support the development young people’s social-awareness and interpersonal skills.
NIEHS Driving Hazard Awareness	0.17	This course covers the hazards of driving and what you can do as a driver to avoid these hazards. When you are on the road, there are a variety of factors that go into your overall safety. Being aware of other drivers and being conscious of your own driving increases your overall safety.
Project Management - Advanced: Project Integration and Plan Development	0.50	This course will cover how to measure data during project integration and differentiate between project and product life cycles. You will also learn how to identify the importance of developing a project plan, the elements of a project plan, the key input required for project plan development, and methods used in project plan development.