Echo Providers Program
Quality care is essential for children’s optimal development. Attuned and responsive caregivers can help children develop emotionally, physically, and cognitively. Additionally stable relationships create trust, empathy, and compassion. They promote children’s curiosity and later, school readiness. We have know for a long time that relationships are important for a child’s development. Now we know that relationships shape brain circuits and lay the foundation for later development and learning.
Training Program
Echo Parenting & Education is offering the Echo Providers Program for childcare providers, licensed or unlicensed (grandparents and nannies, that’s you!) This program addresses the needs for quality care in addition to basic health and safety.
Curriculum
This curriculum trains caregivers to:
* Build a child’s socio-emotional competence.
* Use empathic limit setting.
* Encourage a child’s natural curiosity through play and daily interactions.
* Foster a child’s cognitive and motor development through child-lead, developmentally appropriate activities.
* Develop the critically important collaborative communication between provider and parent.
Program Structure
This training combines class instructional time with mentoring support (during class and at the childcare site whenever possible).
The Echo Providers Program offers:
* Twenty classes about crucial topics including: nonviolent child raising, brain and child development, positive discipline and anger management, nutrition, art and creativity, school readiness, special needs, and collaborative parent-provider communication.
* C.P.R Certification
* Free childcare from experienced childcare providers who have been prescreened and trained in the practice of nonviolent caregiving.
* Field trips.
* Licensing information.
* Community resource information.
* Educational supplies.
For more information about participation and/or for schedule of classes please contact Azucena Ortiz, at 213.484.6676 x311 or aortiz@echoparenting.org
