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The ELC’s partner with local Early Childhood Planning Region Teams to coordinate training for providers serving children with disabilities and their families. Training for providers who serve or may serve children who are homeless or living in-home with insecure housing is available across the state. Training for providers on working with families in poverty (Bridges out of Poverty) continues to be brought to Nebraska by state and regional human service providers. Three of the four tribes have designated ELC Coordinators who work specifically with the early childhood programs on tribal land within the schools, Head Start/Early Head Start, and licensed child care. Coordinator has made strong partnership in each of the tribal areas and information about training is available to each provider and ELC. Materials can be translated for any licensed required training. Required trainings can be translated if the training is not delivered in the primary language of the provider. Accommodations are also made for hearing impaired providers. Trainers who are bi-lingual are recruited specifically to address the needs of providers who are English language learners. Additional bi-lingual trainers are needed, and Nebraska is actively seeking partnerships with community programs providing outreach to lower incidence languages. Additionally, the Early Learning Connection regions cover all parts of the state, including Native American communities. Tribal lands are concentrated in the northeast part of the state within the Northern Early Learning Connection region. Trainings are held at sites throughout the northeast region, many in close proximity to tribal lands.

Effective Date: 10/01/2018

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