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
Thursday, December 18, 2025
1:00 PM
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.
Emergency Preparedness Institute: An Introduction to Emergency Planning
NC HBHS
Wednesday, December 17, 2025
2:00 PM
"An introductory session to Emergency Preparedness, Response, and Recovery guided by the updated Emergency Preparedness Manual for Early Childhood Programs. The goal is to provide an opportunity for early childhood programs to reflect on resources and critical activities to use when writing or updating emergency preparedness plans. Staff from the National Center on Health, Behavioral Health, and Safety with experience supporting recipients after a disaster will facilitate the Institute through discussion and live Q&A. Join us to review strategies to keep children, staff, and families safe and support their mental health during all phases of emergency management. Participants are highly encouraged to attend all sessions."
On-Demand & Self-Paced Learning
Booster Seats and Seat Belts Basics - Mini-Course (free eLearning)
Child Passenger Safety, a program of the National Safety Council (NSC)
(2025) Self Paced: "Booster Seats and Seat Belts Basics—Mini-Course is a free e-learning course that takes about 30 minutes to complete. Learn to keep children safe in cars as they grow by completing this course on booster seat and seat belt use.
Car Seat Basics is a copyright of the National Safety Council.
NOTE: This introductory training does not qualify for child passenger safety CEUs."
Car Seat Basics (free eLearning)
Child Passenger Safety, a program of the National Safety Council (NSC)
Self Paced: "Car Seat Basics is a free e-learning course that takes about 60 minutes to complete. Learn to keep children safe in cars as they grow by completing all or specific modules on rear-facing and forward-facing car seat use, as well as booster seat and seat belt use.
Car Seat Basics is a copyright of the National Safety Council.
NOTE: This introductory training does not qualify for child passenger safety CEUs."
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