Children and families count on providers to be prepared when disasters strike. Child Care Aware® of America (CCAoA) can give CCR&R staff the insights, strategies, and resources they need to help providers mitigate threats, reduce emotional stress, and protect the children in their care.
In addition, CCR&R organizations play a key role in their communities with emergency preparedness, response, and recovery. CCAoA has developed tools to help CCR&R organizations look at their level of internal preparedness and capabilities to respond to a disaster and help the child care industry get needed support; strengthen partnerships with emergency serving organizations; and clarify roles with disaster planning, response, and recovery.
EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS TRAINING-OF-TRAINERS
Our Training-of-Trainers opportunity is designed to help trainers prepare child care providers to effectively plan for emergency disaster events, respond appropriately in the aftermath of a disaster, and recover quickly and efficiently.
CCAoA's emergency preparedness training-of-trainers gives trainers the resources needed to help child care providers:
- Understand the importance of emergency preparedness for child care.
- Describe the typical actions required for different types of emergencies.
- Identify ways to support children’s needs.
- Develop a comprehensive emergency preparedness plan to keep children and programs safe
The Major Benefits of Our Training
Developed and led by experts in early childhood education and emergency preparedness and response
Features a variety of instructional approaches including small and large group interactions and discussions- Covers a variety of threats and challenges to programs including, utility disruptions, natural disasters and infrastructure failures
Emergency preparedness, response, and recovery can be an overwhelming task. Reach out to CCAoA for targeted technical assistance or to learn more about navigating a specific emergency response and recovery situation that has impacted child care.
REFERRAL TO EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS TRAINING FOR CHILD CARE PROVIDERS
Multiple CCR&R organizations and their training partners have emergency preparedness training available for child care providers. If you need help locating an emergency preparedness child care provider training near you, please let us know.
SUPPORT FOR CCR&R ORGANIZATION READINESS (SYSTEMS LEVEL)
CCAoA can connect CCR&R organizations to a variety of helpful resources to improve and strengthen emergency planning and customize a delivery option, including virtual Community of Practice sessions for CCR&R staff/partners, on-site and virtual presentations, emergency preparedness exercises, and linkages to key partners.
