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J. To participate in the Bureau of Family Health & Nutrition planning processes and project activities and in Departmental cross-cutting initiatives.

K. To continue to implement new staff training curricula at The Learning Center (TLC), and plan and design additional training events for FY 27.

1. Collaborate with Operations, Nutrition Services, Systems, and Fiscal to continue to review and revise the new staff training curriculum, training modules and lesson plans to incorporate new program policies and initiatives, as needed.

2. Conduct regularly scheduled training sessions for all new local program staff to enable the majority, if not all new local program staff, to complete their new staff training before the end of their probationary periods (generally 3 months).

3. Enhance new staff training curricula to support staffing pattern changes in the recent local WIC agency procurement.

4. Continue to communicate post training feedback for new staff to local program management staff when there are concerns regarding the assessment of comprehension and performance of the trainees. The feedback will include further training recommendations.

5. Continue to provide, and update as needed, the New Staff Training (NST) Guidelines so that new staff understand and are aware of the expectations for NST attendees prior to attending training. Review with staff on-site during day one welcome and announcements.

6. Continue to implement other training sessions to enable local program staff to receive additional training on specific issues as identified by local program staff, supervisors, local program evaluation team, and TLC trainers.

7. Refer management staff to the Leadership series on the Service Skills training platform to further assist local program managerial staff in strengthening and developing their leadership skills.

8. Collaborate with other units of the WIC state office, state agencies, educational institutions, and training organizations to provide in-services for local program and state office staff for knowledge and skills development and to provide CEUs.

9. Collaborate with the Nutrition Unit to provide ‘Secrets of Baby Behavior’ training to all WIC staff to promote understanding of normal newborn behavior and how it relates to infant feeding.

10. Collaborate with the nutrition unit to provide the USDA breastfeeding curriculum to staff.

11. Collaborate with nutrition unit to promote understanding of cultural health beliefs and dietary practices through the bi-annual Cultural Training highlighting various cultures.

12. Collaborate with task forces focused on WIC access to develop training materials and enhance nutrition education resources.