Training classes are offered at various time and locations. Kimbro's Training & Consultation can schedule a training class at your location or you can attend any of the training sessions that are pre-scheduled. To register and/or schedule your training class send an e-mail to stkimbrough@yahoo.com . Include the type of training, how soon you need the training, and how many people will be in attendance. Pre-payment is required unless other arrangements have been approved.
Minimum Standards Overview - This training gives an overview of the minimum standards manual. The course is designed to help the provider better understand the manual as it applies to their specific license requirements. This training includes a 15 minute segment on SIDS. This course is included in pre-service training and some marathon training sessions. The fee is $25. This training is 2 hours long. (Minimum Standards Handbook Required).
Parent Handbook Overview - This is a basic level course and covers the minimum standards requirement by licensing. This course is included in the CDA Program. The fee for this course is $20. This training is 1 hour long. (Minimum Standards Handbook Required).
Parent Handbook, are you covered? - This is an advanced level course and covers what is required by licensing and then gives suggestions on what the provider may want to include. This course is designed to help providers identify areas of concern in their own operational handbook as it relates to legal issues. This course may be used to renew the CDA Program. The fee for this course is $40. This training is 2 hours long. (Minimum Standards Handbook Required).
Contracts Galor! - This is an advanced level course and is designed to assist the provider in contract development. It gives a very indepth view of what is not only required to make the contract workable, but also what the provider may want to include or not include to make it stand the test of a law suit.The fee for this course is $40. This course is 2 hours long. (Providers must bring their current contract(s) to this training). This course may be used to renew the CDA Program.
Enrollment Packets Overview - This is a basic level course and covers the minimum standards requirement by licensing. This course is included in the CDA Program. The fee for this course is $20. This training is 1 hour long. (Minimum Standards Handbook Required).
Enrollment Packets! What must I have!?! - This is an advanced level course and is designed to assist providers in ensuring they have included all the necessary requirements of licensing prior to the child's first day. It also touches on additional forms that may be required depending on the child (e.g., special needs, hours of care, etc.). The fee for this course is $35. This course is 2 hour long. (Providers must bring their current enrollment packets). This course may be used to renew the CDA Program.
Trimming Down Deficiencies - This is an advanced level course. This course gives an overview of the most cited deficiencies. It also gives practical suggestions that assists the provider in lowering their chances of being cited for these deficiencies and increase the quality of their business. The fee for this course is $30. This course is 1.30 hours long. This course may be used to renew the CDA Program.
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) - This course is designed to inform the provider of the seriousness of SIDS and the precautions that the provider is required to take. (required course by CCL). This training by itself is 1 hour. The 15 minute session is added to minimum standards overview training and the 30 minute training is added to some of our marathon training sessions. This course is included in pre-service training and the CDA Program as well as renewals for the CDA. The fee for this course is $20.
Shaken Baby Syndrome - This course is designed to inform the provider about the causes, how the provider should respond, recognizing shaken baby syndrome, and how to prevent shaken baby syndrome. This training by itself is 1 hour. The 30 minute session is added to minimum standards overview training and the 45 minute training is added to some of our marathon training sessions. This course is included in pre-service training and the CDA Program as well as renewals for the CDA. The fee for this course is $20.
Early Brain Development - This course informs the provider on the current research regarding infant brain development, why attachment is so important during the early years (Birth to 12 months), various ways to develop language, hand and eye coordination, motor skills and discusses why quality of care is so important. This course is 1 hour long by itself. The 30 minute session is added to minimum standards overview training and the 45 minute session is added to some of our marathon training sessions.This course is included in pre-service training and the CDA Program as well as renewals for the CDA. The fee for this course is $25.
Emergency Medical Plans - This is an advanced level course. This course is designed to assist providers who have children with special needs. Whether those needs be something as simple as changing their diet or something more severe as asthma, the provider must always be prepared to respond quickly. The fee for this course is $25. The course is 1 hour long. This course may be used to renew the CDA Program.
The Joy of Potty Training - This course is designed to assist the providers and parents in potty training children. The fee for this course is $15. The course is 1 hour long.
American's with Disabilities Act (ADA) Title III Inclusion - This is an advanced level course. This course assist the provider in understanding their legal requirement to include children with special needs and/or disabilities in their program. This course addresses ways to include clients with special needs as well as how to legally exclude children based on legal guidelines. The fee for this course if $45. The course is 4 hour long. This course may be used to renew the CDA Program.
Pre-Service Training - This course is designed to meet the requirements of licensing in the area of developmental stages of children, fostering children's self-esteem, constructive guidance and discipline of children, strategies and techniques for monitoring and working with children, age-appropriate activities for chldren, reporting child abuse, neglect, exploitation, and sexual abuse, emergency preparedness, violatile persons, severe injury and/or illnesses of a child or adult, preventing the spread of communicable diseases and locating and using fire extinguishers and first aid equipment. Shaken Baby Syndrome, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and Early Childhood Brain Development are also included. Required for new staff members. DOES NOT include CPR/First Aid Certification The fee for this course is $55. The course is approximately 8 hours long. Can be broken up into 2 sessions. (Minimum Standards Handbook optional).
Keeping your Records in Order - This course focuses on what providers must have in their clients and personnel folders. It also addresses the requirements for registered/licensed homes in regards to family members. This course is included in the CDA Program and meets the requirements for CDA renewals. The fee for this course if $25. This training is 2 hours long. (Minimum Standards Handbook Required).
Making Healthier Choices & Staying Active - This is an advanced level course. This course is a half-day training designed to teach providers how to implement healthier choices and daily physical activity into their programs. The fee for this course is $35. This training is 4 hours long. This course may be used to renew the CDA Program.
Operational Policies - This is an advanced level course. This course is designed to place focus on creating, updating, editing, etc., your policies and policies and procedures handbook for employees. This course is 2 hours long. The fee for this course is $35. (Provider must bring their current Parent Handbook & Operational Policies). This course may be used to renew the CDA Program.
Required Postings Training - This course is designed to place focus on ensuring that providers identify the postings that must be in plain view for their clients and the requirements in keeping those postings updated. This course is included in the CDA Program and meets the requirements for CDA renewals. The fee for this course is $20. This course is 1 hour long. (Minimum Standards Hanbook Required).
Specialized Forms - This is an advanced level course. This training is designed to place focus on helping the provider identify the various forms they may need (that are not provided by licensing) as it relates to their own situation or clients. The fee for this course is $30. This training is 2 hours long. This course may be used to renew the CDA Program.
Identifying & Reporting Child Abuse - This course is a basic level course. This course is designed to teach providers how to recognize the signs and symptoms of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse, as well as how to identify signs of neglect. This course will also instruct providers when and how they should report suspected child abuse. The fee for this coure is $25. This training is 2 hours long.
Child Sexual Abuse - This course is an advanced level course. This course is designed to teach providers how to recognize the signs and symptoms of sexual abuse as well as how to handle a child who cries out to them. The fee for this course is $30. This training is 3 hours long. This course may be used to renew the CDA Program. This training also covers the course material for Pride/Mini-Pride session 7 for foster & adoptive parents.
Discipline - This course is an advanced level course. This course is designed to teach providers how to assist children in controlling their feelings of frustration, anger, etc., in more positive ways. The course fee for this course is $25. This training is 3 hours long. This course may be used to renew the CDA Program. This training also covers the course material for Pride/Mini-Pride session 6 for foster & adoptive parents.
Difficult Developmental Phases in Babies & Children - This is an advanced level course. This course is designed to assist providers in dealing with normal developmental phases in babies and children that includes crying spells, separation anxiety, exploratory behaviors, normal negativism, normal poor appetite, and toilet training resistance. The fee for this course is $30. The course is 2 hours long. This course may be used to renew the CDA Program.
Stages of Child Development - This course informs the provider on the current research regarding childen's brain development, why attachment is so important during the early years (13 months to 5 years), various ways to develop language, hand and eye coordination, motor skills and discusses why quality of care is so important. This course is 2 hours long. This course may be used for the CDA Program as well as renewal of the CDA. The fee for this course is $25.
Effective Communication in Child Care - This course is designed to assist providers in creating positive and healthy communications with the parents of the children they serve. This course addresses how to communicate expectations to the parents, ensuring that contact information is provided, how to arrange special meetings, how to keep the lines of communication open, how to listen to the parents, how to provide information to the parents in the form of training or educational materials, how to be clear, creative and honest with the parents, how to address potential problems and keeping a positive outlook. This is 2 hours long. The fee for this course is $30. This course may be used for the CDA Program as well as renewal of the CDA.
Bloodborne Pathogens - This course is required by CCL. The course covers the definition of bloodborne pathogens and how they are transmitted. Also included in the training is HIV, Hepatitis B & C, how to prevent transmission, exposure and proper hygiene (includes student workbook). This fee for this 2 hour course is $20.
Transportation Safety - This course is required by CCL by current staff by December 31, 2009 and all new staff prior to transporting children. The training will cover minimum standards for transportation and field trips, supervion of children, child passenger safety seat information, safety in and around vehicles, school zones, and railroad crossing, parking and backing procedures, unloading and double-checking vehicles after unloading, and specific vehicle safety training (i.e., busses, passenger vans, etc.). The fee for this 2 hour long course is $15.
