Child Care Training
These courses are available to child care providers who are fulfilling requirements for the DCF annual in-service, the CDA, or renewal of the CDA. Continuing education units (CEUs) are available through our affiliation with the University of Florida.
Classes are held at the Duval County Extension Office auditorium at 1010 N. McDuff Ave. at the corner of Commonwealth and McDuff Avenues.
This list is a sample of programs available. Check the calendar under Upcoming Classes.
Infant and Toddler Nutrition
Learn the nutritional needs of infants and toddlers, plus ways to deal with problem eating behaviors.
Food Safety for Child Care
Public health reports find that a high percentage of foodborne illnesses in the U.S. are caused by mistakes in the home and child care setting. Learn basics of food safety and how to take the proper precautions.
Hurricane Preparedness for Preschoolers Learn and make tools to help children understand hurricanes and prepare for them.
Caring for Our Children video series (AAP)
Health standards, emergency planning, safe transportation, playground safety, preventing injuries and illness.
Least Restrictive Environment
Designing space to allow and support children's growth, independence, and skills.
Safe Havens Training Project–Helping Child Care Providers Support Children Who Witness Violence in Their Communities
Learn the tools to make children's world a safe haven. 6 hours.
Integrating Your Personal and Professional Life
Recognize that you can't always separate your work from your personal life. Learn how to balance and integrate these faucets of our lives
Brain Development 101
Learn how experiences during the first three years of life have a decisive impact on how a baby's brain is wired for life.
Brain-Based Learning
Go beyond the brain basics and learn how the latest research applies to how you teach children and how they learn it.
Chartreuse Moose
Strengthen your literacy program with this developmental language curriculum, full of creative activities for you to use.
The Fabulous Five Ring Math Circus
This very active workshop will guide you through a developmental math curriculum, featuring one-to-one correspondence, sequencing and seriation, spatial relations, classifying and matching, and addition and subtraction.
Exploring the Possibilities with Outdoor Centers
See actual footage of a local center that has developed extensive learning centers outdoors. Explore how you can enhance your outdoor learning opportunities for children!
Music to My Ears
Learn just how important music is for child development, as well as some great ways to expose kids to fun, educational tunes!
Attachment and Bonding
Learn how young children develop a sense of security, or not, from the interactions they have with primary caregivers. Develop skills and rituals to ease transitions.
Birth Order and Personality
Investigate how your position in your family affects your style of caregiving, and discover why some of the children in your classroom may behave the way they do!
Tuning into Temperament
Examine differences in personality among children and how we respond to them as caregivers. Look at how different temperaments affect programming.
Communicating with Young Children
Learn how to communicate with children to enhance cooperation and build a positive bond.
The Angry Child
Distinguish between healthy and unhealthy ways to express anger, model more positive ways of dealing with your own frustrations, and teach and lead children to healthy alternatives for handling their anger.
Children Coping with Divorce
Learn the ages and stages of how divorce affects children and ways to help them deal with the changes in their family.
Children Coping with Family Violence
A look at the dynamics, patterns, and effects of violence in the home.
It's Not So Easy to Be a Kid These Days
Develop an understanding of how stress affects children and learn how children can best cope with stress.
Discipline
Understand misbehavior and examine different discipline techniques for supplying your "discipline toolbox."
Diversity: Building on Differences
Develop skills and attitudes that celebrate diversity and help children learn positive attitudes, nonviolent communication, coping, and team building skills.
Moral Development
Learn the critical points in a child's life when certain steps toward moral character develop and how to have a positive influence at those windows of opportunity.
Family Resiliency: Building Stronger Families
Learn about factors that contribute to strong families and strong children. How can you help build a "bounce back" quality in children-at-risk?
Intergenerational Connections
Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
Become more familiar with the kinship caregiving issues and resources available. Highlights include strengths and barriers for the kinship caregiver and the myriad of feelings encountered by the child, the caregiver/grandparent, and the biological parent.
Children's Friendships
The way children relate to peers changes as they grow. We'll examine these stages and also look at children without friends.
Parent-Caregiver Partnerships
Learn and practice saying what you mean clearly and respectfully, gaining the confidence that you are understood! Workshop was actually developed to be used with both parent and caregiver present.
Dealing with Difficult People
Examine 5 patterns of difficult people and ways to deal with each.
Marketing and Enrollment Strategies That Work Not getting the enrollment which you would like to see? Many, many different methods will be presented on marketing your program.
Observing and Recording Behavior
A comprehensive look at different methods of recording for different kinds of development.
Child Care
Is it the job for me? A close look at the realities of providing family child care.