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Discover simple and meaningful ways to involve families in children's daily learning experiences. Educators will explore strategies to strengthen communication, build positive relationships, and create ongoing opportunities for family engagement throughout everyday routines and activities.

Early childhood educators spend their days nurturing children, building relationships, and creating safe, loving learning environments—but who takes time to pour back into the educators?

Inspired by The Day the Crayons Quit, Every Crayon Counts is an engaging and interactive professional development experience designed specifically for Family Child Care Home Educators. This training explores the connection between social-emotional wellness, self-awareness, resilience, and the critical role educators play in shaping children's emotional development. Because every child deserves an educator who feels seen too.

As a family child care educator, you spend each day nurturing children, supporting families, and managing a business—all within your own home. In the midst of caring for everyone else, it's easy to put your own well-being last.

Filling Your Cup is an engaging and reflective professional development session designed specifically for family child care educators. Participants will explore the importance of self-care, recognize the signs of stress and burnout, and discover practical strategies for building resilience, maintaining healthy boundaries, and restoring balance. Through meaningful discussions and interactive activities, providers will create a personalized wellness plan that supports both their personal well-being and the quality of care they provide every day.

In the midst of caring for everyone else, it's easy to overlook the person at the center of it all—you.

The Heart Behind the Care is an uplifting and interactive professional development session designed to encourage family child care providers to invest in their own well-being. Participants will explore practical strategies for managing stress, preventing burnout, establishing healthy boundaries, and creating sustainable self-care practices that fit their daily lives.

Through meaningful reflection and engaging activities, providers will leave with renewed motivation, a personalized wellness plan, and the confidence to prioritize themselves without guilt. Because when you care for the heart behind the care, everyone benefits—especially the children.

Join us for the first in our Making Your Voice Heard Educator Community of Practice series! We will explore an array of advocacy and civic engagement strategies, share our experiences, and add tools and resources to our community leadership toolbox.

In this interactive session of our Making Your Voice Heard series, we will explore the state constitutional amendments on the ballot in Nov 2026 and share voter education resources so that you’re ready to “Make Your Voice Heard” at the ballot box!

In this final session of our Making Your Voice Heard series, we will learn how to identify local and state representatives, understand their roles in shaping early childhood policy, and share tips to build relationships and communicate our priorities to policymakers.