NC CCHC Course

The NC CCHC Course is offered on a rolling basis and includes weekly readings, content-related quizzes, portfolio and experience tasks, and a final project.

Participants have an option to take a standard 12-week or an accelerated 6-week version of the Course.

• The 12-week Course requires a commitment of at least 8 hours/week for 12 weeks.
• The 6-week Course requires a commitment of at least 16 hours/week for 6 weeks.

Course Outline At-A-Glance

• Lesson 1: Quality Improvement and Assessment of Health, Safety, and Wellness Practices
• Lesson 2: Working with Early Educators to Improve Quality: Consultation, Coaching, and Equity/Cultural Competence
• Lesson 3: Training Implementation and Health Education
• Lesson 4: Quality Child Care and Regulations
• Lesson 5: Children with Special Health Care Needs and Community/Professional Supports
• Lesson 6: Child Care and Development Fund Health and Safety Training Topics
• Lesson 7: Child Care and Development Fund Health and Safety Training Topics
• Lesson 8: Other Subject Matter Areas

Health professionals with experience in early childhood health and safety and whose job requires providing health and safety consultation services to local child care facilities. Course participants include those who are funded by local health agencies, local Partnerships for Children (Smart Start), Head Start/Early Head Start, the Military, or similar community-based agencies that provide CCHC services.

Requirements for acceptance into the NC CCHC Course:

• Current job responsibilities that include providing child care health consultation services as outlined in the CCHC Program Manual
• Experience in or knowledge of the following areas:
  • Pediatric health
  • Community health
  • Health education
  • Early care and education
• Be one of the following:
  • A licensed health care professional:
    • This includes a registered nurse, physician, nurse practitioner, physician assistant, or similar with an active license that is unencumbered in the state where CCHC services are provided.

• • A health educator with either a minimum of:
    • A bachelors degree from a four-year college or university with a major in health education or related field such as community health or health promotion. Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES) designation preferred.
    • A bachelors degree from a four-year college or university and at least three years experience working in public health education. Experience must include working primarily as a public health educator within the last five years.

The NC Child Care Health and Safety Resource Center reserves the right to accept or decline any application to the NC CCHC Course.

If you have been hired by an agency in North Carolina as a CCHC, please reach out to your CCHC Coach/Implementation Specialist.

If you are providing CCHC services independently or working outside of North Carolina, complete our interest form to determine if you meet the CCHC Course requirements. If your interest form indicates that you do meet minimum requirements, you will be sent the link for the course application.

Former CCHCs that have not:

• worked as a CCHC in the past three years or
• successfully completed the Course in the past three years and
• are considered inactive by the NC Resource Center (active CCHCs are listed here Find a CCHC)

must retake the NC CCHC Course to be considered an active CCHC. For more information, contact the NC Resource Center.