Courses for Trainers
Courses for Trainers prepare Active Child Care Health Consultants (CCHCs) and other early childhood professional trainers to provide required trainings and technical assistance to early educators in their local communities in North Carolina. Early childhood professional trainers include those who typically provide one or more of the following NC DCDEE approved trainings to groups of early educators:
- Emergency Preparedness and Response (EPR) in Child Care
- Infant Toddler Safe Sleep and SIDS Risk Reduction (ITS-SIDS)
- Medication in Child Care
- Other trainings developed by partner agencies such as:
- Be Active Kids
- Playground Safety
- Before submitting an application, review the criteria for each course to determine if you are eligible.
- All application responses must be accurate, complete, and thorough based on what the sections of the application asks to be included. Incomplete applications will not be considered.
- Upon successful completion of a course, you will be expected to train and provide follow up technical assistance on the training content to early educators in your local community.
- You will be provided support to implement training guidance, Trainee Agreement and Training Recommendations.
If you are interested in taking the course solely to gain knowledge of the topic, contact an active trainer in your area from the list of active trainers.
Infant Toddler Safe Sleep and SIDS Risk Reduction (ITS-SIDS) Course for Trainers
The ITS-SIDS Course prepares Active Child Care Health Consultants (CCHCs) and other professional trainers to provide state approved and required training to early educators in their local communities on:
- Risks for SIDS, suffocation, strangulation, and entrapment and how to prevent them.
- Causes of SIDS, sleep related infant death, and external stressors that contribute to an unsafe sleep environment.
- Child care rules and best practices related to safe sleep.
- How to respond to an unresponsive infant.
- Resources available for those experiencing grief from a SIDS death.
Who is eligible to be an ITS-SIDS trainer?
Active CCHCs and early childhood professional trainers with experience in early childhood health and safety and whose job requires providing both training and technical assistance services to local child care facilities. Available slots for each cohort of the course are limited. Course participants typically include those who are state or federally funded by agencies that provide training and technical assistance to child care facilities as a part of their service model or as part of their core services.
Applicants should at minimum possess:
- A bachelor’s degree in a health-related field or in early childhood/child development.
- Professional knowledge of health and safety issues related to infants or toddlers.
- Recent experience providing DCDEE approved trainings and technical assistance to early educators or formal education in adult training principles, preferably both.
- Verification of current trainer status with an exempt training agency or as a non-exempt trainer with DCDEE is required.
While applicants must meet the minimum requirements to be accepted, the following items are also considered:
- Experience providing training to an adult audience.
- The strength and completeness of each application.
- The needs of the community served (an applicant serving a county with 0 active ITS-SIDS trainers will be given priority over a county with 10 active ITS-SIDS trainers).
- A commitment to providing training and technical assistance in their community.
- The total number of applicants for each course.
The ITS-SIDS Course is online and free of charge. It is largely self-paced with some real-time virtual components. It takes approximately four weeks to complete. It is offered two or three times each year.
Emergency Preparedness and Response (EPR) in Child Care Course for Trainers
The EPR in Child Care Course prepares Active Child Care Health Consultants (CCHCs) and other professional trainers to provide state approved and required training to early educators in their local communities on:
- Standard emergency preparedness and response procedures that can be used for all NC child care facilities.
- The benefits of planning, preparing, and practicing for emergencies.
- NC Child Care Regulations and best practices that support emergency preparedness and response.
- Supporting facilities and families in responding to and recovering from an emergency.
- How to complete the required EPR Plan template.
Who is eligible to be an EPR trainer?
Active CCHCs and early childhood professional trainers with experience in early childhood health and safety and whose job requires providing both training and technical assistance services to local child care facilities. Available slots for each cohort of the course are limited. Course participants typically include those who are state or federally funded by agencies that provide training and technical assistance to child care facilities as part of their service model or as part of their core services.
Applicants should at minimum possess:
- A bachelor’s degree in a health-related field or in early childhood/child development.
- Professional knowledge of health and safety issues in child care.
- Recent experience providing DCDEE approved trainings and technical assistance to early educators or formal education in adult training principles, preferably both.
- Verification of current trainer status with an exempt training agency or as a non-exempt trainer with DCDEE is required.
While applicants must meet the minimum requirements to be accepted, the following items are also considered :
- Experience providing training to an adult audience.
- The strength and completeness of each application.
- The needs of the community served (an applicant serving a county with 0 active EPR trainers will be given priority over a county with 10 active EPR trainers).
- A commitment to providing training and technical assistance in their community.
- The total number of applicants for each course.
The EPR in Child Care Course is online and free of charge. It is largely self-paced with some real-time virtual components. It takes approximately six weeks to complete. It is offered twice a year.