This course contains two parts and will fulfill the updated 24-hour Pre-Service requirement (including health and safety) for Texas child care providers as of May 2024. Here is a link to a non-clock-hour book for other states to train new staff.
Part one is 8 hours. Part two is 16 hours.
To receive hours, a true/false multiple choice quiz must be completed. There is an additional fee of $4 per clock hour upon submission of your quiz for grading.
INCLUDED IN THIS TRAINING:
-DEVELOPMENTAL STAGES OF CHILDREN
-AGE-APPROPRIATE ACTIVITIES FOR CHILDREN
-POSITIVE GUIDANCE AND DISCIPLINE OF CHILDREN
-FOSTERING CHILDREN’S SELF-ESTEEM
-SUPERVISION AND SAFETY PRACTICES IN THE CARE OF CHILDREN
-POSITIVE INTERACTION WITH CHILDREN
-PREVENTING AND CONTROLLING THE SPREAD OF COMMUNICABLE DISEASES-IMMUNIZATIONS
-RECOGNIZING AND PREVENTING SHAKEN BABY SYNDROME
-ABUSIVE HEAD TRAUMA
-PREVENTING SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME
-UNDERSTANDING EARLY CHILDHOOD BRAIN DEVELOPMENT
-PREVENTION, RECOGNITION AND REPORTING OF CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT
-PROCEDURES TO FOLLOW IN HANDLING EMERGENCIES
-EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS PLAN
-LOCATION AND USE OF FIRE EXTINGUISHERS AND FIRST AID EQUIPMENT
-ADMINISTERING MEDICATION
-PREVENTING AND RESPONDING TO EMERGENCIES DUE TO FOOD OR AN ALLERGIC REACTION
-BUILDING AND PHYSICAL PREMISES SAFETY
-VEHICULAR TRAFFIC-PRECAUTIONS IN TRANSPORTING CHILDREN
-SAFE SWIM PRACTICES-BODIES OF WATER
-HANDLING, STORING AND DISPOSING OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS