Tribal Child Care And Development Fund: Guide for New Administrators
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Appendix C: Sample Quality Activities
The following list represents examples of quality activities shared by Tribal Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) Administrators
Training and Professional Development Opportunities for Providers
Training Topics
- Orientation to CCDF Program
- Child development
- Behavioral issues
- Cultural training
- Infant and toddler child care
- First Aid
- Computer skills
- Child care as a business
Strategies for Making Training Accessible
- Offer grants or stipends for attending training events
- Provide transportation
- Provide training on-site at centers and homes
- Reimburse tuition and associated school attendance costs for AA degree
- Pay for time off for training attendance
- Bring Child Development Associate (CDA) trainings on-site
- Make substitute providers available
Licensing, Monitoring, and Assisting Providers in Meeting Standards
- Develop provider standards
- Conduct background checks
- Conduct monitoring visits
- Provide health and safety materials/equipment, as determined by inspection
- Offer direct grants/mini-grants for health and safety equipment/materials
- Provide needed classroom materials and resources
- Provide funds toward cost of provider licensing
- Offer immunizations
Resource & Referral/Consumer Education
- Contract with State to provide resource and referral services
- Establish a resource library for parents and providers
- Develop newsletters for providers and parents
- Create parent handbooks
- Start a toy lending library
- Develop internet-based consumer education on quality child care
Compensation of Staff
- Supplement wages of staff
- Use sign-on bonuses to recruit providers for infant/toddler care or other areas of provider shortages
- Increase staff compensation in blended Head Start/Child Care program to equalize salaries
- Give bonuses to providers for quality programs
- Implement cash and non-cash career-ladder incentives
School-Age Activities
- Initiate cultural activities with elders (e.g., regalia making)
- Support culturally-based summer youth programs
- Collaborate with Boys and Girls Clubs
- Develop a mentor program
- Connect with drug prevention programs
- Link with teen pregnancy prevention programs
Health Related Activities
- Connect providers with health consultants and specialists (e.g., nutritionists, speech therapists)
- Conduct health screenings
- Conduct immunization events
- Incorporate diabetes prevention activities into curricula
- Provide car seats and professional installation
Promoting Family Literacy
- Plan a family literacy day
- Provide early reading materials/books for children
- Require daily reading to children
- Create a book lending library for providers
- Schedule a “Father’s Night Out” with storytelling, books, puppets
- Open a computer lab
- Provide support for appropriate classroom activities
Cultural Activities
- Incorporate tribal language instruction into programs
- Invite storytellers to perform
- Identify and promote training opportunities for parents and providers
- Provide cultural training to non-Native providers
Other Quality Activities
- Fund field trips
- Provide funds/equipment for library/internet access
- Establish intergenerational centers
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