6.3 Ongoing Training and Professional Development

6.3.1 Required hours of ongoing training Provide the number of hours of ongoing training required annually for CCDF-eligible providers in the following settings: a. Licensed child care centers: 24 hours b. License-exempt child care centers: License-exempt child care centers are required to complete 24 hours of ongoing training annually. This requirement is listed in the Provider Service Agreement and included in initial enrollment information. There is a training checklist that providers can access on the nevadachildcare.org webpage through the following link: chrome- extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.nevadachildcare.org/static/ 165138f14ccf0f120ec19980e092df29/OST-Monitoring-Checklist-002.pdf c. Licensed family child care homes: 24 hours d. License-exempt family child care homes: 24 hours e. Regulated or registered in-home child care: 24 hours f. Non-regulated or registered in-home child care: License-exempt FFN providers are required to take a minimum of 24 hours of early education and child care training annually. Any and all CCDF-eligible providers are required to take the 24 hours of required training annually. 6.3.2 Accessibility of professional development for Tribal organizations Describe how the Lead Agency’s training and professional development are accessible to providers supported through Indian tribes or Tribal organizations receiving CCDF funds (as applicable). All trainings are open to any provider in Nevada. There is tribal representation on The Nevada Registry Advisory Committee to help guide, advise and make recommendations concerning issues related to Nevada's professional development and training approval system. T.E.A.C.H. Early Childhood® Nevada scholarships are accessible to early childhood professionals associated with Indian tribes and tribal organizations with state licensed or tribally regulated child care programs. Currently, T.E.A.C.H. Early Childhood® Nevada collaborates with the Inter-Tribal Council of Nevada and a representative from the Inter-Tribal Council participates on the T.E.A.C.H. Early Childhood® Nevada Advisory Committee With the exception of CPR and First Aid, all of the currently required initial health & safety trainings are available online at no cost through two online training organizations: ProSolutions Training and the University of Nevada Reno Extension Office. These online trainings are available to all providers in Nevada, regardless of setting. 6.3.3 Professional development appropriate for the children, families, and child care providers Describe how the Lead Agency’s training and professional development requirements reflect the range of children, families, and child care providers participating in CCDF. To the extent practicable, how does professional development include specialized training or credentials for providers who care for infants or school-age children; individuals with limited English proficiency; children who are bilingual; children with developmental delays or disabilities; and/or Native Americans, including Indians, as the term is defined in Section 900.6 in subpart B of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (including Alaska Natives) and Native Hawaiians? DWSS/CCDP engages in partnerships to support kith and kin providers to provide professional development opportunities that are inclusive of the diverse population of children served including infants. school-age, children with developmental delays or disabilities, Native American and Indian populations. Professional development opportunities encourage providers to register to receive child care scholarship(s) on behalf of any eligible children they serve. A focus of this program is to reach unregistered providers with limited English proficiency and including them in trainings, wraparound services, and pathways to serving child care scholarship recipients and/or licensure as a Family Child Care or Group Family Child Care provider. DWSS/CCDP partners with community-based organizations serving communities with limited English proficiency to recruit adults to become licensed Family Child Care providers and to facilitate a pathway to serving child care scholarship recipients. FFN registration and training materials are available in Spanish and we are working on incorporating other languages. CCR&R staff have Spanish-speaking staff available to register FFN providers who speak Spanish. All registration materials are available in Spanish. All information on training requirements is available in Spanish including the CCR&R FFN training catalog which includes trainings offered in Spanish. Caring for Our Children Basics has been translated in Spanish and is given to providers to prepare for their health & safety visit which is conducted by a Spanish-speaking staff. For languages other than Spanish, a Telelanguage service can be used to communicate with providers. This service is offered 24/7/365 and provides professional translation services for over 200 languages. All CCR&R and state offices are ADA compliant, and staff have training on the use of Relay Nevada (7-1-1) which is a free service that provides full telephone accessibility to people who are deaf, hard-of-hearing, deafblind and speech disabled. This service allows relay users to communicate with standard telephone users through specially trained relay operators. The call can be made to anywhere in Nevada 24/7/365 with no restrictions on the number, length, or type of calls. All calls are strictly confidential, and no records of any conversations are maintained. Specialized licensed provider trainings for infants and toddlers and school-age children are available, but do not offer a credential at this time. All Out-of-School Time and Infant Toddler-specific trainings can be found on The Nevada Registry. Trainings are searchable by key words (e.g., infants, toddlers, out of school time, non-traditional hours). There are over 173 online coursed that are available in English and Spanish. Though The Nevada Registry collects data from approved trainers regarding the languages they can deliver trainings, we are not currently collecting specific data about whether Registry-approved training reflects the specific diversity of children, families, and providers. We are currently building new ways to search for training in languages other than English on our Training Calendar (and currently post Registry-approved training sessions and courses to our calendar when they exist) to create more opportunities for providers to select professional development to meet their unique and diverse needs. Our website will also be available in Spanish in the future as an initial step in creating more equitable access to professional development. 6.3.4 Child developmental screening Describe how all providers receive, through training and professional development, information about: (1) existing resources and services the State/Territory can make available in conducting developmental screenings and providing referrals to services when appropriate for children who receive assistance under this part, including the coordinated use of the Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment program (42 U.S.C. 1396 et seq.) and developmental screening services available under section 619 and part C of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (20 U.S.C. 1419, 1431 et seq.); and (2) how child care providers may utilize these resources and services to obtain developmental screenings for children who receive assistance and who may be at risk for cognitive or other developmental delays, which may include social, emotional, physical, or linguistic delays: This information about the resources can include the Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment program under the Medicaid program carried out under title XIX of the Social Security Act and developmental screening services available under IDEA Part B, Section 619 and Part C, in conducting those developmental screenings and in providing referrals to services for children who receive subsidies. DWSS/CCDP provides this information to eligible families during intake and to child care providers through training and education. Information on developmental screenings, and other consumer education information, is accessible for individuals with limited English proficiency and individuals with disabilities.