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Current Resident or: Neurokinesiologist NYS Educational Incentive Program (EIP), Apply Now! Now! (EIP), Apply Program Incentive NYS Educational to nourishchildren'sbrainpower isto getthemupandmoving. Rochester, NY 14610-1825 NY14610-1825 Rochester, 595 Blossom Rd.Suite 120 President Conference 8:30am—2:30 pm Diplomat BanquetCenter Phone: (585) 654-4720 654-4720 Phone: (585) Fax: (585) 654-4721 Lunch: 11:00am-12:00pm this training may be available through the the through available be may training this Covers NYS Licensing Training Categories 1 & 3( $150.00 Value) 1&3( $150.00 Categories Training Covers NYSLicensing Main Office Main Office Scholarship funding to participate in in participate to funding Scholarship Rochester, NY14606 Registration: 8:00am 1956 Lyell Avenue 1956 LyellAvenue Amy Fici *CEO *Receive 5 hours of NYS accepted training* (.5CEU) ofNYSaccepted training* 5hours *Receive CARING MATTERS

Building Children’sBrainsthrough Jean BlaydesMadigan believesthebestway * LOCATIONS * * March 2010 - Vol. 28 Issue3 Barbara-AnnMattle * Editor Wayne CountyBranch Office Newark, NY 14513-9201 NY14513-9201 Newark, Phone: (315) 331-5443 331-5443 Phone: (315) Fax: (315) 331-5271 Fax:(315) 331-5271 1173 EastUnion St.

WE DO THAT! WE DOTHAT! Council Members$55.00 Free Parking&Lunch Non-Members $75.00 registration information registration information Call 585-654-4720 for Now All $150.00 throughApril9 Livingston County Branch Office Livingston County Branch Office Jennifer Weykman Weykman Jennifer April 10 Lakeville,NY 14480-0670 Cost 3513 Thomas 4 Dr.Suite Phone: (585) 346-6050 346-6050 Phone: (585) Fax: (585) 346-6058 Inc.

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› Loan privileges at the Early Childhood Professional Libraries › My First Library for your own children between the ages of 6 weeks thru 5 years Benefits › Free Notary Public Services News You Can Use › Access to group rate Health and Dental Insurance › Council Pin, Lanyard, Tote Bag or Cooler Beach Bag

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Benefits › 10% membership discount every Tuesday on Recycle Shop purchases We would like to congratulate JoAnn Halloran, Executive Director Above Substantial member savings on Council offered classes and events Plus › of Kiddie College, and her dedicated staff at their Irondequoit Single Site Group Family Child Care Provider or location on 330 Pattonwood Drive, for receiving National Non-Child Care Organization Membership—$75/yr Accreditation from the Children’s Institute. › Substantial member discount on in-service training at your location Thank you for committing to high quality All Benefits › $5.00 discount on individual staff memberships in the Child Care Council child care through all your hard work! Above Substantial discount on Council classes and events for provider and assistants Plus › Congratulations!!!

Child Care Center, Nursery School, School-Age, Multi-Site Group Family Child Care Membership Recognition is given from a thankful (anonymous) parent $100.00/yr (1-10 staff members) $200.00/yr (21-30 staff members) to TLC Adventures in Child Care in Hilton. $150.00/yr (11-20 staff members) $250.00/yr (31+ staff members) “Dedication to consistent and quality provision of care is so evident All › Substantial Discount on Individualized Training Program and In-Service Sessions Benefits in the way the staff of this center have kept us informed, and All staff members eligible for substantial member savings on Council classes and events Above › provided curriculum that not only has kept our child happy, but Plus has taught him wonderful, usable skills. He is counting in Spanish (much to our delight), and he brings home projects almost daily CCC Annual Membership Application that reflect that he has been engaged in fun activities throughout □ Individual Membership ($35) Mail form & payment to: our time apart. Also, much understanding was extended to us as □ Center Staff Member Membership ($50) Child Care Council Membership we worked through some illness with our son, making the care so □ Family Provider Membership ($50) 595 Blossom Road, Suite 120 much easier to deal with!” Rochester, NY 14610 □ Single Site Group Family Child Care Membership ($75) □ Non-Child Care Organization Membership ($75) Membership Fees are non-refundable Ku·dos., □ CACFP Family Provider ($25) Please √ one Noun - an expression of approval and commendation. □ CACFP Group Provider ($37.50) From time to time we will be publishing recognitions of ___ New □ Center □ Nursery School □ School-Age □ Multiple Site □ Group Family individuals in the field of child care. □ 1 - 10 Staff Members ($100) □ 21-30 Staff members ($200) Membership ___Renewal Memb. □ 11-20 Staff members ($150) □ 31+ Staff members ($250) Membership #_____ If there is someone that you would like to recognize please send

your kudos to: Name______Home Phone ( )______Attention: Caring Matters Editor Home Address______City______Zip______Child Care Council, Inc. Center Name______Center Phone ( )______1173 East Union St. Newark, NY 14513 Center Address______City______Zip______or Total $:______MC/Visa#______Exp. Date______V#[email protected] (3 digit # on back of credit card) Publication is subject to approval of the staff of Child Care Council, Inc. Amount Enclosed:______- Check #______Signature:______Article submission does not guarantee publication. All items Please check one: □ Council Pin □ Lanyard □ Tote Bag □ Cooler Beach Bag submitted become the property of Child Care Council, Inc. Pg 11 Business and Referral Services A Closer Look Inspection Services Department Family Focus Department Get the Credit You Deserve Indoor Field Trips By Renee Scholz, Referral Services Coordinator By Polly Ellstrom, Family Child Care Inspector Did you know that you or the families you serve may be eligible for It’s Cold Outside!! valuable tax credits? Now more the ever, the Federal Government is

What do you do in a Family Day Care program when the winter helping families put more money in their pockets by allowing the following tax credits: seems like it will never end? Cabin fever has sunk in and the kids are bouncing off the walls? Create your own indoor field trips! Earned Income Tax Credit, which helps provide a wage

Adventures use imagination, various motor skills and can supplement for low and moderate-income families earning less than incorporate crafting and kid cooking. $48, 279. This credit is worth up to $5,657.

Here are some simple, yet fun ways to take that at home field trip. Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit, designed to offset some of

Let’s go to the zoo. Gather kids together and decide what it is we the child or dependent care costs that families incur in order to work. This credit is worth up to $2,100. see at the zoo. Read some books about zoo animals. Find all the animals in your play area that you would see at the zoo. Designate Child Tax Credit, designed to help families offset some of the costs an area to build cages. What can we use for cages? Blocks, upside of raising children. This credit is worth up to $1,000 per child. down laundry baskets, pack and play cribs. Have kids take charge Families who owe little or no income tax can receive some or all of placing animals in cages. Maybe there is a petting zoo area too. this credit as a refund if they earned at least $3,000 in 2009. After the zoo is built, decide who will be the zoo keepers and who will be customers. How are the customers getting to the zoo? Making Work Pay Credit, designed to increase families’ take-home Lining up chairs one behind the other creates a great bus. Who pay. This refundable credit is worth up to $800 for couples. Many will be the driver? Does your zoo have a snack bar? Making play workers already have received its benefits through an increase in tickets or play money that the child can exchange for a healthy their take-home pay. snack is fun. Set up a small table and have a cashier take the There are programs that offer free tax preparation assistance. tickets and pass out the snack. Build the adventure around lunch These include: time and have a picnic lunch on the floor. Kids love to have roles and responsibilities assigned to them. Creating adventures is a Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program (VITA), this program super way of teaching, creating and having fun as a group. offers free tax help to low to moderate income people ($49,000 and below) people who cannot prepare their own tax returns. To locate Other possible at home field trips: the nearest VITA site, call 1-800-829-1040.

Let’s take a train ride. Read stories about different places in the Tax Counseling for the Elderly Program, provides free tax help to world. Hop on your play train (It looks much like the bus we took people aged 60 and older. AARP offers the tax aide counseling to the zoo, but the train has a conductor instead of a driver). program. To locate the nearest site call 1-888-227-7669. Decide where your destination is. Incorporate tickets and passports to get on the train. When you return, sculpt or paint The Armed Forces Tax Council (AFTC) oversees the operation of memories of things seen on your trip. the military tax programs worldwide and serves as the main conduit

Let’s go hiking and camping. Discuss what supplies we need for a for outreach by the IRS to military personnel and families. camping trip. Have kids draw maps of where the campers will Volunteers are trained to address military specific tax issues such as walk. Set up camp. Build your lunch and snacks around combat zone tax benefits and the effect of the Earned Income Tax camping type foods. Credit guidelines.

The ideas are endless, just use your imagination. If you have Creating Assets, Savings and Hope (CASH), for households trouble thinking of ideas, just ask the kids. Their ideas are so earning less than $45,000 annually. CASH also offers free and creative! confidential financial coaching and classes. Contact 585-454-4060. Have a great trip!

Pg 10 Pg 3 Food For Thought Nutrition Services Department The Know Place Education Services Department Children’s Film Festival News !!! I NEED TRAINING !!! By Kate Walker, Food Program Consultant An alternative for classroom training By Beverly Maisch, Education Consultant This year Child Care Council, Inc. is proud to be co-facilitating the Children’s Film Festival (CFF) held during the Rochester How many people know about the Association for the Education of Young Children’s Month of the Qual-A-Homes program? WHAT IS IT?..... Young Child. For the second year in a row, the centerpiece film,

It is an in-home, Individualized Training and Found, is based on a best selling picture book. The 25 minute film was adapted and directed by Philip Hunt and narrated Program (ITP) for Family and Group by Oscar winner Jim Broadbent. The children that attend this Family Child Care Providers who are year’s festival will be both viewing this incredible film and hearing committed to improving the quality of this amazing story. child care. Lost and Found is one of many wonderful books by Oliver Jeffers. Benefits Include: 15 to 30 hours of Early Childhood (required/ This story is about a boy who befriends a lost penguin. The theme topical) training given over 12 months of attachment is central throughout the book and movie and will help children understand how and why friendships are important. • Monthly appointments for training in your child care A further explanation of attachment, questions for discussion, and environment, with the children activity ideas will be provided at the Film Screenings in the form of • Use of a nationally recognized "Family Day Care Rating Scale" to a Viewer’s Guide. assess your program • Training designed specifically to fit your needs and goals Please check our CCC website for dates and times the Film Festival will be visiting you! DVDs of the film will be available throughout • Hands-on activities based on Developmentally Appropriate the month of April. Child Care Council sites will have the DVDs Practice standards through sign-up with Kate Walker at 585-654-4752 or emailing • Completion of a Professional Development Plan at of the [email protected]. Others sites can participate by program signing up for DVDs by calling Connie Valk at 585-295-1000 x248, Eligibility: Registered Family Child Care Provider, Licensed Group e-mailing [email protected], or signing up to reserve a Family Child Care Provider, and/or an Assistant in a Group Family DVD at the RAEYC kick-off March 31st , 2010 at the Cooperative Extension at 6:30 PM. Child Care Program • Complete and submit a Qual-A-Homes registration packet Since 2006, Child Care Council, Inc.—along with Children’s ***You may be eligible to receive EIP funds from New York Institute, RAEYC, the Monroe County Library System, Rochester State***, or pay privately City School District, Early Childhood Education Quality Council, • Commit to work actively toward improving the quality of your Family Child Care Satellites of Greater Rochester, Hunter Institute child care program on Young Children and several other educational organizations in • NEW to Qual-A-Homes (May not have done the program before) the early childhood community—have facilitated a Children's Film Festival “to provide an educational forum for accessible, appropriate General Information: high quality films and other visual media for children.” Besides CCC, Program Fee: $825 for 15 hours, $55.00 each additional hour (may funders for CFF or providers of books and printed materials, be eligible for EIP scholarship, maximum amount $1500 per year) include Dr. and Mrs. James W. Sayre Fund, Early Childhood Includes 1 year Child Care Council Membership FREE Education Quality Council, Alstrom, Hunter Institute on Young Children, and the Office of Early Childhood of the Rochester City Contact the Education Department at 654-4720 for a registration School District. packet TODAY !

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TAMING THE TOYS ‘Kinder, Gentler’ MAT By Nicole Pulcino, Legally Exempt Inspector By Emily Leone RN, MSN “Clean up! Clean up! Everybody everywhere, clean up clean up! Everybody do your share!” As I reflect back on the newly revised MAT (Medication Administration Training) As winter draws to a close we often find ourselves looking around our homes in dismay at the toll months of being cooped up indoors curriculum which I just finished teaching this has taken on our living spaces. With temperatures (hopefully) past weekend, I am pleased to report that it is rising, it is now time to go through those well loved toys and give ‘Kinder and Gentler’ just as advertised. your home a thorough cleaning. Using the following steps, you can No confused looks on participant faces; no breathe new life into those old and forgotten play things that are long-winded attempts to explain what type of waiting to be rediscovered. parent permission and prescribed instructions 1. Hunt and Gather Hot Wheels in the bathroom? Puzzle pieces are needed before giving the medicine. Testing in the kitchen? Going from room to room, take time to gather all is still part of MAT, but it is also ‘Kinder and Gentler’. No more the items that don’t belong in each space. Often we discard toys dreaded starred questions on the written test and the guidelines for due to missing pieces only to find that long lost wheel under the the demonstration tests are more flexible too. And all tests are still bed or in a basket of dirty clothes. Once you’ve gathered all the wayward items, return them to their rightful homes. open book! 2. Take Inventory Bring all toys together in one space and take Schedule of MAT classes: Joanne & I offer the MAT class three stock of those that are missing pieces, are broken, or simply need times a month in three scheduling options: over 2 weekend days, batteries. If a toy or game is still missing parts that are necessary over 3 weekday evenings, and one evening MAT Independent Study for it’s enjoyment after step one or if a toy is beyond repair, recycle (or MAT IS). For MAT IS, participants prepare on their own in or discard it. Save what you can from these items for rainy day advance of a pre-scheduled practice and test date. Please call or go arts and crafts projects (old puzzle pieces can enjoy a new life when combined with some glue and paper). Once you have taken stock to www.matstudy.com if you would like more information about the of your inventory, set aside those items that your children have out MAT IS option. grown and find them a new home by passing them on to friends MAT Certificate: The MAT certificate is good for three years and and family or to your church or favorite charity. can be renewed online for free by eligible medication administrators. 3. A Little Elbow Grease Goes a Long Way Now that you have The certificate is issued for 8 credit hours in 3 categories. taken time to weed out your collection, it is time to make what was old look new again. When cleaning your play space and those Paying for MAT: Child Care Council charges $125 for the items to be used by children, it is important to keep in mind what classroom MAT and $80 for MAT IS. The MAT Rebate program will type of program you are offering for children. Legally Exempt, refund $100 for classroom MAT and $70 for MAT IS. Unlike EIP, Registered, and Licensed programs have specific requirements, so the MAT rebate program has never run out of funding and is not depending on your individual program needs, make sure you dependent on income. That is a pretty good deal if you need follow the proper cleaning and disinfecting techniques. training hours.

Did You Know ? Now’s the time: If you have been avoiding MAT because of it’s Whenever you begin care with a new child, regardless of if they are negative reputation, now is your chance to experience the ‘Kinder, private pay or subsidized, you must notify the Legally Exempt Gentler’ MAT. Enrollment office to add them to you enrollment.

Pg 8 Pg 5 Jump for Joy! IMPORTANT INFORMATION By Myra K. Thompson 2010 EIP applications are now available. We expect that like last year, available scholarship funds will run out quickly. Plan your classes now so you can apply for the funds immediately when the applications are available. Please contact our By Staff Member: Andrea McKenna, office, we will be happy to assist you! Education Consultant A review of classes in Mar & Apr 2010. New items are in BOLD With childhood obesity at an all time high, it is very important to Classes are 6:30pm—9:00pm unless otherwise noted offer children a variety of large motor activities. Jump for Joy Rochester Office: Lakeville Office: offers over 375 creative movement activities that will enhance your 3/2-Culture and Child 3/20 & 27-MAT 3/8,10,15,17,22,24-Fam. & curriculum. Abuse 9am-2pm Group. Fam. Health & The goals of the movement education approach is to have all 3/3-Power of Relationships 3/22 & 29, 4/5,12,19,26- Safety the children active and involved at the same time. This reduces 3/4-Being Successful in Fam. & Group. Fam. competitiveness, embarrassment, and turn taking. The great CACFP Renewal Series II 3/31-Poison Prevention thing about the activities suggested is that you don’t have to be 3/4-Business Operations for 3/23-Intro. To Family a super athlete or a physical education teacher to lead these Newark Office: New FDC/GFDC Prov. Child Care 3/1 Wayne County Prof. activities. You just have to be enthusiastic about what you are 3/8,10,15,17,22,24-Fam. & 3/24-8 week course- doing. Dev. Group 6:30- Group. Fam. Health & How to Start and 8:30pm This book breaks down the movement activities into 14 Safety Operate a Child Care different sections from basic movement lessons to lessons 3/16-Child Abuse 101 3/9 & 11-CPR Center 3/17-Intensive Health involving parachutes. All the lesson are fun and easy. For 3/9-Intro. To Family Child 3/25-MAT Independent Technical Assistance example, here is an activity called Fast Formations. Care 9:30am-Noon Study 6-9pm FREE-Asthma Attack & Everyone moves freely in everybody’s space. When the teacher 3/9,11,16-MAT 6-9pm 3/30-Promoting Healthy Severe Allergic Reaction: calls out a formation, the whole group responds as quickly as 3/11-Play, It’s that Weight What you need to know possible to make that formation. Simple! 3/31-Know Your 6:30-8pm 1. Form one circle. Remind the children that the fastest way to 3/18-Child Abuse 101 Regulations-Center make a circle is for each person to hold two people’s hands. 2. Line up behind on another. 3. Line up side by side Rochester Office: Lakeville Office: 4. Make a square. 4/6-Business Operations for 4/13,15,20,22,27,29-Health 4/17 & 18-MAT This is a great activity for ending a movement session. New Fam/Grp Providers & Safety 4/28-Being Successful in For more great ideas on movement activities come see 4/7-Parent Handbook 4/19-Destination CACFP Jean Blaydes Madigan at Child Care Council, Inc’s annual 4/8-Know Your Imagination conference Saturday, April, 10 2010. Regulations-FDC 4/26-Raising Nutritionally Newark Office: 4/12,14,21-MAT Savvy Children in a 4/6 & 8-CPR 4/13-Intensive Health Multimedia World 4/12,14,19,21,26,28- Technical Assistance 4/27-Fire Safety Health & Safety FREE-Asthma Attack & 4/28-MAT Independent THE RECYCLE SHOP Severe Allergic Reach Study 6pm-9pm ITEM OF THE MONTH IS: ANNUAL tion: What you need to 4/29-Intro to Family Child CONFERENCE 4/10 know 6:30-8pm Care Diplomat Banquet Ctr Assorted Shapes, Sizes, and colors of laminate veneer 50¢ each

See the Jan-Jun 2010 Course Calendar for more details and a full list of courses. Courses are also listed on www.childcarecouncil.com

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