Training

Personal Financial Management

CCDI helps early education professionals to enhance the skills to improve economic security and job quality so they can focus on the work they love- caring for children. In a supportive group structure CCDI offers workshops including:

  • How to save money when you have none
  • Getting out of debt
  • Setting financial goals to reach your dreams

 If participants meet the income eligibility guidelines, they can qualify to have their savings matched through the State Family Savings Account program, which matches every dollar saved by a dollar to be used toward purchasing an asset (home ownership, completing secondary education, saving for retirement, or starting/expanding a business).

Child Care Business Training
CCDI offers a series of fiscal management workshops for child care practitioners to help them bring in more revenue, stabilize the business and improve the quality of care they deliver. Value added is accomplished through generations of additional taxes from stabilized business and through retention of a valuable public service. Business owners learn how to set their rates based on true costs and maximize the revenue collected from the state subsidy system.  Training Modules include:

  • Meeting business practicies under Keyston Stars
  • Recognizing hidden costs to develop your true cost of care
  • Budgeting and planning
  • Implementing efficient record keeping systems
  • Improving collection procedures
  • Setting fees integrating a scholarship program
  • Finding and advocating for more resources
  • Understanding the market rate survey
When participants need more support, CCDI can follow-up with one-on-one technical assistance. Skilled practitioners who have experienced the same or similar challenges confronting participants provide mentiring. 

Improving Work Site Training
Growing out of the commitment to enhance the quality of jobs in early education, CCDI offers training in:

  • Cooperative worksite development
  • How to Implement model work standards
  • How to ensure worker rights and responsibilities
  • How to enhance communication in a work site
  • How to effectively manage child care programs

Civic Engagement and Advocacy
To generate more support for the early education field, CCDI helps child care professionals become more engaged in the civic process and become more effective advocates for themselves and the children and families they serve. Workshops explore why it is important to be involved and how to be involved. CCDI offers training in the following topics:

  • Why vote, how to vote and know who to vote for
  • Where does money for child care come from
  • How do the state and local legislative budget process work
  • How can I influence policy decisions

Other Training Topics

CCDI offers a wide range of other trainings including:

  • Professional Development Records
  • Effective Communication (Parent/Staff, Child/Staff, and between staff)
  • Dramatic Play
  • Science in the Classroom
  • Music Enrichment
  • Math in the Classroom
  • Art as a Process vs. Product
  • Toilet Training
  • To Pee ot Not to Pee
  •  Infant-Toddler Toys to Make
  • Integrating Early Learning Standards into the Classroom
  • Improving the Health and Safety of Your Program
  • Developmentally Appropriate Practicies
  • Child Observation-Level 1

To contact us:
5517 Greene Street
Philadelphia, PA 19144
Phone: 215-842-3050
Fax: 215-842-3075