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• VIRTUAL Ready Set Eat Food Safety Recording

  • Start
    11/05/2024
  • End
    06/26/2025
  • Location
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  Ready Set Eat Food Safety 

  Earn 3.0 Clock Hours

  Qualifies for Health & Safety Training

   

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• VIRTUAL Medication Administration Health and Safety Recording

  • Start
    11/05/2024
  • End
    06/18/2025
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  Medication Administration & Epinephrine Training

  Earn 3.0 Clock Hours

  Qualifies for Health & Safety Training

   

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• Health and Safety Recording - Safe Sleep & Food Safety

  • Start
    04/05/2025
  • End
    10/27/2025
  • Location
    VIRTUAL

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  4/5/2025 Conference Recording

  CCAL Spring Education Conference

  Counts for Two Clock Hours for LDOE 

  
  

  Safe Sleep (1 hour) and Ready Set Eat Food Safety (1 hour) 

  Denise Gillespie, RN, CCHC, ECHST 

  The Safe Sleep Training Course provides essential knowledge on creating a safe sleep environment for infants in childcare settings. Participants will gain an understanding of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), including risk factors and prevention strategies. The course will cover best practices for safe sleep, including standards for cribs, tummy time, and sleep environment. Additionally, we will review the importance of having a clear safe sleep policy and a medical emergency plan. Through discussions and practical guidance, caregivers will learn how to implement these standards to ensure the well-being of infants in their care.

  Ready Set Eat Food Safety is a session on how children grow and develop. This is session includes information on handling children with special needs. After completion of this  training class, participants will be able to define the grasping status, describe a positive and supportive learning environment for feeding children, be able to discuss how language and feeding are related.

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• Recording of Spring Education Conference For Teachers and Support Staff

  • Start
    04/07/2025
  • End
    10/31/2025
  • Location
    Virtual

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  CCAL Spring Education Conference Recording for Teachers and ECE Support Staff

  Counts for Six Clock Hours for LDOE or LA Pathways

  These sessions are geared towards

  Early Childhood Educators

  
  

  First Session

  Toys, Trikes and Tantrums

  Dianna Constant, Agenda for Children

  This breakout session provides educators with a blueprint for success with young children in the early learning classroom.  Participants will learn an underlying cause of preschool behaviors and learn effective techniques to prevent problem behaviors that sometimes occur in the preschool classroom.  

  Second Session 

  Bubbles and Boundaries:  Teacher Self-Care for 2025   
  

    Patrick Sciambra   

  Tulane Infant Mental Health - Tikes Program

  This presentation is intended for any and all early childhood educators.  Teaching young children can be incredibly stressful!  Research clearly shows that caregivers who are stressed are more likely to use harsh discipline.  This session address stress management and self-care in a fun and educational way. Teachers will learn about stress and how it impacts both the brain and the body.  Participants will then gain insight into how trauma impacts functioning, explore the importance of setting healthy boundaries, and finally will develop their own individualized self-care plan.  We aim to support teachers in taking care of themselves, so they are better able to take care of the children in their classrooms!  

  
  

  Third Session

  Playing with a Purpose: Relearning How to Play to Address Developmental Skills - Sydney Bordelon, MOT, LOTR

  This two-hour workshop is designed to empower early learning educators on the importance of play to target age-appropriate skills. The session includes instructional information as well as hands-on opportunities to incorporate the skills in the classroom. Sensory Integration: What the heck does that even mean?  We will be reviewing following sensory systems: tactile, gustatory, olfactory, vestibular, visual, and proprioceptive.

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• Recording of Spring Education Conference for Owners and Directors

  • Start
    04/07/2025
  • End
    06/18/2025
  • Location
    Virtual

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  CCAL Conference Recording

  4/4/2025 CCAL Spring Education Conference for Owners and Directors, Assistant Directors

  Counts for Six Clock Hours for LDOE or LA Pathways

  
  

  Featuring Brandy Woods-Smith, Childcare Millionaire 

  
  

  Includes Motivational Keynote Presentation

  Brandy Woods-Smith

  LDOE UPDATE  featuring Karen Powell - Moderator

  • Shelia Campbell
  • EdLink Update – Robert Klein 
  • Child Care Assistance Program – Melinda George
  • Licensing Updates (Bulletin 137) –Andrea Burl 
  • Child Care Criminal Background Checks – Kayla Batiste
  • Child and Adult Food Program - Debbie Gary

  Two Hour Childcare Owners and Directors Boot Camp

  by Brandy Woods-Smith

  Childcare Millionaire 

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  Two Hour Childcare Owners and Directors Boot Camp

  by Brandy Woods-Smith

  Geared towards Child Care Owners and Directors 

  For registration assistance, please call or text us at 225 933 5435.

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• CCAL Bayou Region Sustainability ZOOM Call

  • When
    05/02/2025
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    1:00 PM
  • Location
    Virtual

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                    Bayou Region Sustainability ZOOM Call 

  You are invited to participate in a unique virtual conversation specifically for our Bayou Region child care business owners, spearheaded by the Child Care Association of Louisiana.

  Under the leadership of CCAL President Tara Emery, we recently established a Sustainability Task Force.

  As such, CCAL has kicked off our Sustainability Task Force activities with a "30-45 minute listening session" just for you! 

  We will be joined by CCAL board member Daisy Alviar who represents the Bayou Region.  Also, CCAL President Tara Emery and Cindy Bishop  will be joining the ZOOM Call.

  Date:     Friday, May 2, 2025

  Time:     1:00 PM CST

  Please RSVP.   We are excited about this opportunity to hear your concerns and ideas / suggestions.

  CCAL is a membership organization and as such, our volunteer Board Leadership and our Executive Director stay closely attuned to our members' needs. 

  We want to ensure the stability of all of our members. We want to see CCAL members THRIVE!  

  Respectfully, 

  Cindy Bishop, CCAL Executive Director & Lobbyist 

  
  Reminders:

  If you need clock hours or professional development, you can register for CCAL's Spring Education Conference Recordings featuring keynote speaker Brandy Woods-Smith, Founder of Childcare Millionaire and the LDOE Regulatory Updates. The Administrative Track will get you six (6) clock hours and the cost is $75 per person.  There is a group discounts for seven or more registrants. Contact Cindy Bishop for the group discount. 

  If you need clock hours for staff,  register for the Spring Conference Teachers and Support Staff Track.  They will be able to earn six (6) clock hours for $75 per person and there is a group rate for seven or more registrants. 

  Use this link to register for all of our events:

  childcarelouisiana.org/events 

  The deadline to apply for the Employee Retention Tax Credit Refund in Tuesday, April 15, 2025.

  To request a FREE CONSULTATION to see if you qualify for the federal Employee Retention Tax Credit Refund just email 

  Andrew King at ercsupport@hundredfoldconsultingllc.com

  Tell him that CCAL referred you and that you would like to schedule a free consultation.  Time is of the essence! 

  This program ends on April 15, 2025.

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