Training Policies & Requirements
Online Registration

• Pre-registration is necessary. Click the link to connect to our new easy to use, online registration process

• Training registration can also be sent by mail or faxed to 547-2906. Please include your name, telephone number, address, e-mail address, training title(s), and date(s) to:

  • Coordinated Child Care of Pinellas, Inc.
    ATTN: Provider Services
    10601 Belcher Road South
    Largo, FL 33777

   

• Payment should accompany registration forms and are due one week prior to the date of the training. Early registration is $10 to non sub-contracted providers. Registration payments received late are $15. There is no cost to sub-contracted providers.

• As a professional courtesy, please cancel your reservation (24 hours in advance when possible) if you find you will not be able to attend so that your space can be given to someone else.

• Telephone registrations will not be accepted.

• Call 547-4246 to cancel your registration.

• Any person with a disability requiring reasonable accommodations should call (727) 547-2924 no later than seven (7) days prior to the training.

• In compliance with fire and safety regulations, registrations may not exceed room capacity. Most trainings have limited seating and quickly reach capacity. Early registration is recommended for all trainings.

• Check-in begins 30 minutes prior to the training. Trainings will begin and end on time. Please come prepared with paper and pens/pencils for note-taking.

• Arriving late to a Training will forfeit your registration. Sign-in will close fifteen (15) minutes after the training begins or sooner if the training is full.

• Individuals who are not registered will be admitted five (5) minutes after the start of the training if there is seating space available.

• Participants will receive a training documentation form only at the conclusion of the training. Participants who leave early may forfeit their right to receiving full training credit.

Requirements:

• All subcontracted Preschool Center Providers working with children who do not have a CDA are required to obtain forty (40) clock hours of training a year in early education and care.

  • If they have a credential (have an AA or BA degree in early childhood or related field; have a CDA or an equivalency), the number of required clock hours is less

  • If you are a Child Care Center and are interested in subcontracting with CCC, please call Linda at 727-547-4242 for more information.
    
    
• Subcontracted family child care providers attend twenty (20) clock hours of training yearly in the areas of child growth and development, health and safety, nutrition, behavior management and guidance, brain development, school readiness activities, and professionalism.

T.E.A.C.H. Early Childhood® Scholarship Program

The T.E.A.C.H. Early Childhood® Scholarship Program began in 1990 in North Carolina as a small pilot program providing a single comprehensive scholarship model to 21 early childhood teachers. The project offers a strategy for systematically improving the education, compensation and retention of the early childhood work force. For more information click the link above or type in http://www.thechildrensforum.com/teach.htm in your browser.

Child Development Associate Equivalency (CDAE) Program

For more information about requirements visit www.myflorida.com/childcare/training