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Information on the CCP

(Child Care Professional credential)
     
  If you wish to use CARE Courses to get your CCP there are several steps you should take. Please read the following carefully. 

  1. Visit the National Child Care Association ( 1-800-543-7161) website and carefully follow their instructions to register for a CCP. You can print the registration form directly from their site.

  2. To qualify you must have 720 hours of child care experience in a center-based program, be 18 years of age or more, and have a high school diploma or the equivalent.

  3. Get 180 clock hours of formal childcare education.  This is where CARE Courses come in. You must have 180 clock hours which reflect 15 professional ability areas.  You will receive a list of these areas in the packet sent to you from the National Child Care Association.

  4. Complete the remaining requirements as listed in their material (director recommendation, parent recommendations, colleague recommendations, writing samples, performance observation, professional development portfolio, plans for continued professional development.)

While it is up to the caregiver to make the final decision as to how particular courses fit the content areas for the CCP, the following guidelines indicate how we at CARE Courses might apply our courses to the training requirements for this credential. 
     
 
Following is information about how CARE Courses fit the CCP training requirements.   Beside each of the CCP Professional Ability Areas, which are listed by number, are the courses that we would choose to cover that topic.  In some cases, you will need two or more courses to cover an area.  In other cases, one of our courses may relate to several areas. The CCP Ability Areas are explained in the CCP booklet which is available from the National Child Care Association (800-543-7161).
  1. Discipline and Child Care, The Art of Child Care, and Managing Health and Safety in Child Care
  2. Any one of the following: Preschoolers in Child Care, Toddlers in Child Care, or Infants in Child Care
  3. Any one of the following: Preschoolers in Child Care, Toddlers in Child Care, or Infants in Child Care
  4. Any one of the following: Preschoolers in Child Care, Toddlers in Child Care, or Infants in Child Care
  5. The Art of Child Care
  6. Parents and Child Care
  7. Stress and Day Care, Managing Health and Safety (has lesson on abused children), Active or Hyperactive?
  8. Parents and Child Care
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  9. The following courses address this topic to some degree: Preschoolers in Child Care, Toddlers in Child Care, Infants in Child Care. None of our courses deals with diagnostic or screening tools.
  10. Child Development Through Play as well as Preschoolers in Child Care, Toddlers in Child Care, and Infants in Child Care
  11. Everyone Welcome!
  12. This is a very broad topic. Most of the exemplars are covered by the following courses: Discipline and Child Care, The Art of Child Care, and Management for Caregivers. After-School Programs also relates to this topic. To cover the exemplars relating to director skills, you could choose from the following courses: The Workplace Environment, Facilitating Staff Skill Development, Improving Staff Performance.
  13. Stress and Day Care and Parents and Child Care
  14. Learning Centers and The Art of Child Care as well as some information in Preschoolers in Child Care, Toddlers in Child Care, and Infants in Child Care
  15. The Art of Child Care relates to this topic.
Following is a summary of the courses that we have identified above along with the clock hours and tuition cost.

 Discipline in Child Care  

  20 clock hours  $50.00

 Everyone Welcome! Diversity in Early Childhood Programs  

  8 clock hours  $42.00 (including text)
 The Art of Child Care    20 clock hours  $50.00
 Learning Centers  10 clock hours  $42.00
 Parents and Child Care  20 clock hours  $50.00
 Stress and Day Care   25 clock hours   $55.00
 Active or Hyperactive?  30 clock hours  $64.00 (including text)
 Management for  Caregivers    14 clock hours     $46.00
 Preschoolers in Child Care   20 clock hours  $50.00
 Managing Health and  Safety   12 clock hours     $44.00
 Child Development Through Play   8 clock hours  $42.00 (including text)

Total 

  188 clock hours  $535.00
In addition to this list, you would probably want to add one or more of the following to round out your coverage of all topics: Toddlers in Child Care, Infants in Child Care, After-School Programs, The Workplace Environment, Facilitating Staff Skill Development, Improving Staff Performance.
Ultimately your selection of courses is a matter of your own judgment as you confer with your CCP advisor.
 

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