Tribal Child Care And Development Fund: Guide for New Administrators
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Appendix D: 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
Training 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
- Grants to attend training events
- Providing transportation
- Providing on-site (center and home based) training
- Tuition for AA degree and associated school attendance costs
- Paid time off for training attendance
- Bring Child Development Associate (CDA) trainings on-site
- Stipend paid to providers attending training
- Substitute providers available
Licensing, Monitoring, and Assisting Providers in Meeting Standards
- Developing provider standards
- Background checks
- Monitoring visits
- Provide health and safety materials/equipment, as determined by inspection
- Direct grants/mini-grants for health and safety equipment/materials
- Providing needed materials and resources
- Support towards cost of provider licensing
- Immunizations
Resource & Referral/Consumer Education
- Contract with state to provide resource and referral services
- Resource library for parents and providers
- Newsletters for providers and parents
- Parent handbooks
- Toy lending libraries
- Develop internet-based consumer education on quality child care
Compensation of Staff
- Supplement wages of staff
- 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
- Bonuses to providers for quality programs
- Cash and non-cash career-ladder incentives
School-Age Activities
- Cultural activities with elders (i.e. regalia making)
- Culturally based summer youth camps
- Collaboration with Boys and Girls Clubs
- Mentor programs
- Drug prevention program linkages
- Teen pregnancy prevention program for 11-13 year olds
Health Related Activities
- Health consultants
- Health screenings
- Speech therapy
- Nutritionist
- Immunizations
- Diabetes prevention services
- Car seats
Promoting Family Literacy
- Family literacy day
- Provide early reading materials/books for children
- Require daily reading to children
- Book lending library for providers
- “Father’s Night Out” with storytelling, books, puppets
- Computer labs
- Classroom activities
Cultural Activities
- Tribal language instruction
- Storytelling
- Training opportunities for parents and providers
- Summer Native Culture camp for school-aged children
- Cultural activities with elders and youth
- Provide cultural training to non-Native providers
Other Quality Activities
- Field trips
- Funds/equipment for library/internet access
- Establishment of intergenerational centers
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