You’re invited to our free, four-part New Moms Support Group series! We want to congratulate you on becoming a new mom. Right now you may be feeling a lot of emotions. If you’re excited, worried, overwhelmed, and overjoyed, then you’re totally normal. Fortunately, finding a circle of support is a great way to lessen the stress of caring for a newborn. At each of our support groups, moms will get to share their feelings, ask questions, and build friendships with one another. Alexis Azzam, a mom and licensed marriage and family therapist, will offer lots of information along with tips for decreasing isolation and bonding with your infant. This will be a safe space to connect with others and build community around the experience of motherhood. Bring your baby along too!

Series dates: 9/11, 9/18, 9/25, & 10/2

The Spirited Child workshop is back! Are you the parent of a child who is strong-minded and has intense feelings? Or a child who may have endless energy, gets easily frustrated, or is very shy? Would you like to learn parenting tools that work with your child’s personality and stage of development? Rebecah Freeling is a Wits’ End Parenting coach and former center director who has 20 years of experience in early childhood education. You will learn ways to deal with tantrums, aggression, shyness, and other challenging behaviors often displayed by “spirited” children.

Note that when you register for the first workshop, you are registered for the entire series.

Series dates: 9/12, 9/19, 9/26, 10/10, 10/17, & 10/24 (No class on 10/3)

Are you thinking of opening your own family child care program? If so, this free event is just for you! We’ll discuss what it takes to open a licensed family child care business in your home. We will also talk about how to decide whether this is the right choice for you and your family. Running an in-home child care program involves a background check, a home inspection, an application to Community Care Licensing, and a commitment to providing meaningful, nurturing curriculum to young children. In this workshop, you will learn about how to set up a safe environment for children, how to market your child care program, and how to build strong relationships with parents. BANANAS is here to offer support at every step. We will also talk about the California Child Care Initiative Project (CCIP) project. CCIP is a state-funded project that helps to increase infant/toddler child care slots and improve quality care for children. This is a great chance to meet with an expert who can answer your questions and offer information to get you started.

Please note that this does not replace the Community Care Licensing (CCL) orientation. To pre-register for that orientation, call CCL at 510-622-2602 or go to www.ccld.ca.gov and pay their $25 registration fee.

Join us for this workshop on Curriculum Development. Curriculum planning and implementation can be confusing. When we develop curriculum that focuses on the whole child, we create equitable learning experiences. This workshop will introduce you to Developmentally Appropriate Practice (known as DAP) and offer guidance on how to create developmentally appropriate curriculum. In developmentally appropriate classrooms, teachers assess children by what they already know, learn about each child’s abilities, interests, needs, and help each child meet their goals. In this workshop, participants will explore all that is DAP, and its role in nurturing children’s overall development. Through various curriculum models, DRDP assessment, and observation, participants will discover ways to create a developmentally appropriate curriculum for children.

0你可上網報名www.bananasbunch.org, 或直接到香蕉中心, 遞交報名表和培訓費。培訓費支付方式: 本票 (Money Order) 或支票 (check); 抬頭請寫 (Make check payable to): BANANAS。報名繳費後， 你將收到香蕉中心報名收据。

培訓費是不退還的. (No Refunds) 。

培訓費包括資料費以及附有EMSA認証標簽的資格證書費。

請提前15分鐘到， 以便填寫有關表格。遲到者將不允許參加培訓。

由於安全因素, 請勿攜帶孩童， 家人， 或朋友參加培訓。

請穿輕便服飾， 不塗口紅， 以方便實習活動。

全天課程， 有午餐時間，請自備午餐。

你也許有機會申請獎學金。但是， 你仍需先繳費報名。獎學金申請表請於課後向培訓老師索取。

如果你住或工作地點是在柏克萊市(Berkeley), 你將可免繳培訓費. 感謝貝爾(Bayer) 公司的贊助。

英文的CPR&First Aid是每月一次. 中文和西班牙文則另外安排. 越語培訓課程僅限於CPR & First Aid

單元 2：  傳染性急病的預防和保健 (Preventive Health)

課時: 8小時           費用: $60

8個小時的課程是配合加卅政府對托兒工作者資格的要求。內容包括：如何建立良好的健康環境和預防的措施、傳染病的預防和處理、兒童保健、緊急狀况的準備與應對、食物安全和營養常識、以及如何確定和舉發虐待兒童的行為。目前，此証書為終生有效。

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