RIDE-Funded LETRS® Professional Development for Early Childhood Educators Available

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 […]

RIDE is excited to support children’s smooth transition to kindergarten through the continuation of funding for the Kindergarten Jumpstart: 2023 Summer Enrichment Grant opportunity! What is it? The Kindergarten Jumpstart Summer Enrichment Grants will be awarded to eligible local education agencies, municipalities, licensed childcare providers, and licensed summer activities providers to support the implementation of […]

RIDE is pleased to share the official release of the 2023 RI Early Learning and Development Standards (RIELDS). Beginning in Fall 2021, RIDE engaged early childhood stakeholders in a process to review the 2013 RIELDS. Feedback was gathered and RIDE made necessary revisions in an effort to continue to align with the latest research on […]

The third year of facility improvement and expansion grant funding for Providence-based child care providers, the Providence Early Learning Infrastructure Support Program, is now open. This program offers a competitive pool of grants to expand access to high quality early learning facilities across Providence. A total of $1.5 Million is available for providers in facilities […]

Español Está Abajo Dear CCAP Providers, With summer fast approaching we wanted to remind those of you who have School Age summer programming that the Summer Flip will be in place allowing you to enroll school age children during regular school hours for the summer. You will be able to start entering your enrollments as […]

Español Está Abajo   The Rhode Island Department of Human Services is issuing the following memo to provide an update regarding comprehensive background checks. As you know, effective 2015 per federal CCDF law, all employees hired by a DHS-licensed child care provider are required to complete a comprehensive background check prior to employment. Since this […]

Estimados Proveedores ,   ¡Feliz abril! Le escribo hoy para proporcionar algunas actualizaciones/recordatorios rápidos en nombre del Equipo de licencias de cuidado infantil. A partir del 1 de mayo de 2023: el equipo de licencias publicará informes de monitoreo dentro de las 72 horas de una visita de monitoreo o queja, independientemente de si se han […]

Valued Providers, Happy April! I am writing today to provide some quick updates/reminders on behalf of the Child Care Licensing Team. Effective May 1, 2023 – the licensing team will be posting monitoring reports within 72 hours of a monitoring or complaint visit, regardless of whether all items have been resolved. If you have non-compliances, […]

Meeting Street presenta dos nuevos talleres virtuales en inglés y en español. Los años de bebés y niños pequeños: Qué debe de esperar se llevará acabo miércoles 24 de mayo de 6:00 – 8:00pm. Haga clic aquí para el boletín e información sobre como registrarse. Los años preescolares: Qué debe de esperar se llevará acabo […]