Additional Training Opportunities
Note: The opportunities listed on this page are professional development offerings from outside organizations. ECELS is sharing them as a courtesy to the early childhood education community but does not develop or officially endorse these trainings. Please review each opportunity to determine if it meets your professional development goals or requirements.
Live & Upcoming Events
Preventing Child Health and Safety Incidents
National Center on Health, Behavioral Health, and Safety
jueves, 18 de diciembre de 2025
1:00 p. m.
Join this webinar to learn about strategies to prevent child maltreatment in Head Start settings. The webinar introduces the 10 Actions to Create a Culture of Safety resource and related videos.
You will also find out about an upcoming series of office hours with all four Head Start National Training and Technical Assistance Centers. This series of office hours is a collaboration among all four Head Start National Training and Technical Assistance (TTA) Centers. Staff from the National Centers will provide TTA to recipients on strategies to prevent child maltreatment in Head Start settings. Sessions will include time for recipients to meet with staff from the National Centers for targeted technical assistance.
Register: https://go.edc.org/Health-Safety-Incidents-Series-Registration
This event is offered with English and Spanish captioning and simultaneous interpretation in Spanish.
If you have questions, please write to the National Center on Health, Behavioral Health, and Safety at health@ecetta.info.
Child Care Health Consultation Quarterly Webinar Series: Caring for Children with Special Health Care Needs in Early Childhood Settings
National Center on Behavioral Health, and Safety
miércoles, 3 de diciembre de 2025
1:00 p. m.
Child care health consultants (CCHCs) help early childhood programs manage chronic health conditions by developing individualized care plans and training staff. This webinar explores how CCHCs can support staff and families in caring for children with special health care needs and supporting their school readiness.
Learning Objectives
• Identify common chronic health conditions
• Review the multidisciplinary team that supports children with chronic health conditions
• Explore case scenarios to understand strategies to provide safe care that supports school readiness
• Discuss strategies to connect to local and State resources
If you have questions, please write to the National Center on Health, Behavioral Health, and Safety at health@ecetta.info.
On-Demand & Self-Paced Learning
Child Care Aware® of America Webinars
Child Care Aware® of America
Offered live and on-demand throughout the year, featuring a wide variety of ECE topics, issues and best practices.
Early Learning Professional Development Credit
Better Kid Care
Better Kid Care's distance education program assists early care and education professionals in obtaining research-based professional development.
Head Start Talks Podcasts
Head Start
Head Start Talks features training and technical assistance (TTA) podcasts from the Office of Head Start (OHS). Home visitors, child care providers, directors, teachers, and other staff can access and learn valuable information about a variety of early childhood-focused topics. The Head Start Talks app makes audio/visual TTA content easy to find and manage on the go.
NAEYC Trainings & Webinars
National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)
NAEYC offers engaging, interactive and practical online modules that are self-paced and designed to fit your needs and schedules as early childhood educators.
Sesame Workshop Courses and Webinars
Sesame Workshop
Be a life-long learner! Explore these professional development resources created for all caring adults who help children thrive.
Teacher Training Module: Supporting Grieving Students in Schools
Coalition to Support Grieving Students
The Coalition to Support Grieving Students is a collaboration of education and school professional organizations dedicated to ensuring grieving students receive support and care. The coalition offers free professional development presentations on supporting grieving students.
- Part 1: Helps staff understand the experience of the grieving student and includes information about how children understand death and express their grief.
- Part 2: Presents practical suggestions about how school staff can initiate the conversation and offer support to the grieving student.
- Part 3: Shares practical guidance about how to coordinate resources and manage special issues while you support the grieving child.
- Combined Abbreviated Module: Combines highlights of Parts 1-3 to offer an abbreviated training opportunity.
Watch Me! Celebrating Milestones and Sharing Concerns
CDC
As an early care and education provider, you play a critical role in the health and wellbeing of children. You are also very well positioned to help identify children who might need extra help in their development. This FREE, online training course, Watch Me! Celebrating Milestones and Sharing Concerns, helps you fulfill this role by providing tools and best practices for monitoring the development of children in your care and talking about it with their parents. FEES: No fees are charged for CDC's CEU activities.
This 1-hour, 4-module course focuses on:
- Why monitoring children's development is important
- Why you have a unique and important role in developmental monitoring
- How to easily monitor each child's developmental milestones
- How to talk with parents about their child's development