CCAP for Child Care Coming Soon!

Coming Soon! DHS is excited to share the CCAP for Child Care pilot program is coming soon! The CCAP (Child Care Assistance Program) for Child Care pilot is a one-year pilot offering CCAP benefits to early childhood educators and staff working in DHS licensed child care programs. The intent of the pilot is to support early […]

Training for professionals to lead toddler, preschool, &/or early school age parenting groups. Incredible Years® Parenting Series are evidence-based prevention and treatment programs that build positive parenting strategies and assist parents in managing young children’s behavior, ultimately reducing early onset behavior problems and preventing adolescent delinquency, substance abuse, and violence. 4-day training from 9am to […]

“The Space Between”: Cultivating Critical Self-Reflection, Connection, and Collaboration for Systems Change Conference Description: This year’s conference will offer opportunity for critical self-reflection and dialogue about the opportunity in this moment to center relationships, reframe narratives, and advance diversity informed, relationship-based, equitable, and anti-racist infant mental health practices and systems changes. The conference will include […]

The East Bay Regional Coalition is holding an Incredible Years® class for teachers working with children ages 1 to 5, in the towns of Barrington, Bristol, East Providence and Warren. View the flyer. This is a free training for teachers to support: emotion regulation social interactions language development school readiness in children with autism. The […]

Online applications for the RI Pre-K Lottery are due Sunday, June 18 at 11:59pm! If your child will turn 4 years old by September 1, 2023 and you live in one of the identified 18 communities, visit http://RIPreK.com today to apply for a free RI Pre-K seat!   ¡Las solicitudes en línea para la lotería […]

Alisa Baron PhD, CCC-SLP and Vanessa Harwood PhD, CCC-SLP from URI have teamed up to create the second course in BRIDGE-RI for the Early Childhood Language and Literacy Development Series titled, “Early Language and Literacy Development in Multilingual Learners”.   The 5-course series is intended to inform and support early learning providers and educators in […]

RIDE is excited to announce, in partnership with the University of Rhode Island, the launch of 2 new Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) Accelerated Online Programs: Bachelor’s Degree in Early Childhood Care and Education with Pre-K-2 Teaching Certification and the Post-Baccalaureate Pre-K-2 Teaching Certification Program. This is a fantastic new way for members within […]

The RISE Project is currently enrolling next year’s cohort! This is a professional development opportunity and research study to support you in your role as a supervisor in RI Pre-K while gathering information about how Reflective Supervision may be a useful approach in early care and education settings. Participants will attend a one day  foundational […]

The Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE) is pleased to announce the release of a new round of RIDE-funded, LETRS professional development through our State Personnel Development Grant (SPDG)! RIDE’s SPDG program is focused on supporting educators statewide to improve fidelity of implementation of Structured Literacy within a Multi-tiered System of Support (MTSS) framework. Rhode […]

CCRI and DHS Offer Online Training Programs for Early Child Educators Information and applications available at: https://www.ccri.edu/hmns/RIECETP.html APPLICATION DEADLINE IS JUNE 30, 2022 RIECETP 12/24 College Credit Program If you are an Early Childhood Educator working with children ages birth through 5 in a DHS licensed center or family child care CCAP program you may qualify to […]