Looking for Training?

The Training Calendar lists approved training opportunities statewide and is updated regularly. It helps practitioners to meet their professional development goals by displaying available trainings that fit into the Knowledge Base content areas. The Training Calendar identifies approved trainings taking place in the Child Care Resource and Referral districts across the state.

In addition to the training calendar, trainings can also be found under "Conferences, Courses, and Special Events" (listed below). These are events that may not have been formally approved through the Training Approval  system. If you would like to receive credit for a conference or a special event, please complete an Individual Request for Training Approval.

Regional Training Map

To search for a training event select a district on the map below or search the entire state.

Statewide Training and Distance Learning

The designation of statewide was created in order to accommodate training events that are either not constricted to a physical location, such as online courses or distance learning, or ones that are given for providers throughout Montana, such as the state early childhood conference.
                           
                               Click here to view statewide training events
 

Online Child Care Training
Child Care Resources offers may online training opportunities available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Learn from home! For a full description of available courses, visit www.childcaretraining.org

Child Care Plus+
The Montana Center on Inclusion in Early Childhood at the University of Montana offers distance learning training. For more information visit www.ccplus.org

CARE Courses
These correspondence courses are approved for Montana practitioners. For a full description of courses available visit www.carecourses.com

Conferences, Courses, & Special Events

Certifies Educator of Infant Massage Trainings
Infant Massage USA's four-day certification training will prepare you to teach parents and caregivers how to massage their infants. 
For more information visit http://infantmassageusa.org

Reducing Crash Injury through Safe Transport
Coming to your community in 2008, with a companion, 1-hour evening presentation for your clients and the general public
For: All Early Childhood Professionals
By: National expert speaker/trainer Joseph M Colella of Traffic Safety Projects, Maryland, and Patricia Carrell, State Coordinator for Safe Kids Montana at Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies. 
For more information contact Patricia at 406.449.8611 or visit www.hmhb-mt.org
 

Professional Grant Proposal Writing Workshop
July 9-11, 2008
Missoula, MT.
Interested development professionals, researchers, faculty, and graduate students should register as soon as possible, as demand means that seats will fill up quickly.  For more information call 888.824.4424 or visit The Grant Institute at www.thegrantinstitute.com
 

The National Registry Alliance
July 14-17, 2008
Scottsdale, Arizona
For more information and to view agenda visit www.registryalliance.org
 

18th Annual National Association for Family Child Care (NAFCC) Conference
July 17-19, 2008
Chicago, Illinois
For more information and to view agenda visit www.nafcc.org
 

Adult Learning I, II, III
Bozeman, MT.
Adult Learning I- July 30, 2008- Engage in learning activities focused on the knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed to make early childhood training effective.
Adult Learning II- July 31, 2008- Build on principles and strategies explored in Adult Learning I.
Adult Learning III- August 1, 2008- Designed for individuals to improve their effectiveness in offering technical assistance to other adults.
Registration available after June 1, 2008.  Call the Early Childhood Project at 1.800.213.6310  for more information.

12th Annual Birth To Three Institute
The 12th Annual Birth To Three Institute will be held August 4-7, 2008 at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, DC.  Registration information will be available in Spring 2008.  Please email any questions to BTTinfo@zerotothree.org
 

Families and Learning Conference
August 7-8, 2008
Missoula, MT.
Sessions will focus on: early learning, school readiness, parent leadership, statewide networking, school-family-community partnerships. For more information, contact: Montana Parent Information & Resource Center at 406.543.3550 ext 217 or visit www.montanapirc.com
 

2008 Montana School Food Service Cooking Institute
August 5-7, 2008
Montana State University, Bozeman, MT.
The cooking institute is designed to provide a hands-on training session to help school food service personnel prepare delicious and healthy school meals in a cost-effective manner.  The registration deadline is July 7, 2008.  For more information please contact Katie at 406.994.5641or email kbark@mt.gov
 

Institute on Inclusion in Early Childhood: Training the Center Director 2008
September 17-19, 2008
Enhance your ability to promote inclusion in your child care center, support quality early childhood practices, and individualize for each child!  Acquire tools to embed evidence-based inclusion policies, practices, and strategies in existing supervision and staff development.  For more information contact Sara at 1.800.235.4122.
 

Early Childhood Higher Education

Interested in taking college courses in early childhood?  Montana has a variety of higher education programs in early childhood education and child development that will help you receive a Child Development Associate (CDA) credential, Associate, Bachelor's or Master's degree. For contact/program information about Montana colleges and universities view the comprehensive Montana Early Childhood Higher Education Guide, or contact the ECP.

Watch out!  There are a multitude of online degree programs being marketed. Many programs are NOT regionally accredited and the credits you receive may not count on the Career Path or be recognized by other institutions. To find out if a program is accredited you can visit www.ed.gov/admins/finaid/accred or contact the Early Childhood Project for guidance.





 

  Updated 6/23/2008