Happy Healthy 2012!

Welcome to the New Year!  Please look at the listings of professional development herein and choose sessions which fit both your interests and your Individual Professional Development Plans.  Since we have found that sessions during the warm summer months are not well attended, there will be little in the way of professional development offered June through August. 

The Child Development Division’s (CDD) Bennington Community Forum on the revisions of Vermont’s Child Care Licensing Regulations will be held at CCV on Main Street on February 13th.  This is an important event where parents and early care and education providers are invited to partner with CDD as new regulations are created.  Please see complete details in the Professional Development and Calendar of Events herein. 

Please remember to let us know when you receive/update your STARS and other accreditations, receive your CDA and/or any other celebrations of accomplishment in your programs or education!  We would love to acknowledge these accomplishments in this Connecting Newsletter!

Cordially yours,
Lori Pinsonneault,
SUNRISE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER / BCCCA

Family Fair Announcement

BCCCA’s Annual Family Fair (in Celebration of the Week of the Young Child)

Saturday, April 7, 2012

If you would like to join the planning committee or host a booth this year, please contact Jackie Myers BCCCA Board President and Co-Chairwoman of the fair at Lilpeeps1@hotmail.com or (802) 688-9570. 

We’ll be sending a flyer to share with the families in your care closer to the date to the event!

To the Early Childhood Program at Sunrise Family Resource Center for NAEYC Re-Accreditation;
To Nichole Cross who received her Northern Lights Career Ladder Level I Certificate; to Elaine Capriola who received her Northern Lights Career Ladder Level II Certificate; and to the following early childhood teachers for participating in Vermont’s Child Care Apprenticeship Program presented by the Vermont Child Care Industry and Careers Council through CCV:  Amy Bull, Ariel Hudson, Caitlin Webb, Candace Marsh, Daniel Zaffarano, Elaine Capriola, Heather Stevens, Jennifer Green, Kelly Maitland, Krislyn Sweet, Lisa Baker, Mary Babcock, McKenna Collins, Melisa King, Paula Conklin, Sharon Millette, Tammy Gosley and Tina Guile.