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Dear Providers,
The OEL Provider Portal is now up and running. If you have not already created your account in the OEL system is critical that you do so now! Providers will be completing their 2017-18 School Readiness and Voluntary Pre-Kindergarten contracts through this system.
The first step to set up your account is to create a login by visiting the OEL Provider Portal Login page and registering for an account. If you have questions about registering for an account, please send specific questions to redline@elcnwf.org.
Once your account is active, you will receive an email prompting you to log back into the portal to complete your provider profile. The provider profile includes information that you normally include in your CCR&R provider update form such as rates, ratios, enhanced services, and much more. Be very careful when you complete this information. What you put into your profile will be used to generate the CCR&R listings for families. After you have entered your information a Coalition staff member will verify the information you provided and activate your account. If you have any questions about your provider profile, use the "Request Assistance" tab on the portal, and a Coalition staff member will be able to assist you. If you have an account already set up, please log back on and verify that all of your information is current and submitted.
As I mentioned, the OEL Provider Portal will be used to complete School Readiness and VPK contracts, but every provider needs to have an active profile in order to do so. All providers should submit profiles by March 31.
For step-by-step instructions on how to complete your profile, please click here for the EFS Modernization Project Provider Portal User Guide 12-8-16: EFS User Guide.
Thank you for your all you do for children.
In your service,
Lynne
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Get Moving Today! Monthly Activity Calendars
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Spring is coming!
The first official day of spring this year is March 20, 2017. The weather is warming up and everything is turning green. Shed your winter coat and get started on this list of fun ways to enjoy the spring season. The monthly "Head Start Body Start" calendars* at the Let's Move website are full of daily ideas for you and your children to get moving and enjoy this wonderful season. A PDF copy of the March calendar is included in the button below, and the Let's Move website includes calendars for each month of the year.
*Calendars developed by the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education Recreation and Dance + the National Center for Physical Development and Outdoor Play, 2012
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FREE Webinar: Breastfeeding Support In Child Care Settings
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NEMOURS CHILDREN’S HEALTH SYSTEM
SAVE THE DATE!
Friday, March 24, 2017
3:00 P.M. – 4:00 P.M.
Join Nemours Children’s Health System in partnership with the Florida Department of Health in a conversation around breastfeeding support. Join this month for the second webinar as best practices of breastfeeding support for early care and education programs are explored. You will also learn more about Florida’s breastfeeding-friendly child care recognition program from Krista Schoen with the Florida Department of Health, and provide a focus on:
- Understanding the best practices of breastfeeding support
- Identifying the goals of the breastfeeding friendly child care initiative
- Understanding the process to follow to earn breastfeeding friendly recognition
- Identifying future needs and ways to help promote/expand program
Who Should Participate?
The webinar will benefit all types of early care and education program providers, including center-based programs, family child care homes, directors, managers, and staff members. Please login with other colleagues in your program where possible.
How to Join?
Please register HERE.
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Performance Funding Project (PFP): Things are progressing quickly for providers who are a part of the Performance Funding Project. The deadline is approaching for the Benchmark 3 deliverables to be uploaded. Remember that all Benchmark 3 deliverables are due by March 31, 2017, but please do not wait until the final day to upload deliverables. If you wait until the deadline to upload your deliverables, you will receive a delinquent notice from OEL.
Making the Most of Classroom Interactions (MMCI): Both of the MMCI cohorts are moving along well, and both groups have completed 14 of 20 required hours of training.
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Children's Week "Hanging of the Hands" Hand Art Collection
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The Coalition is partnering with public libraries to create art stations where children can create hand art for the annual "Hanging of the Hands." All hand art collected will be delivered to Tallahassee to be hung in the Capitol Rotunda during Children's Week (March 27-31).
If your center is interested in participating, simply create artwork with children in your center. Connect hand art from your center with ribbon or yarn making strands between 8-10 feet. Turn in your prepared hand art to one of the Coalition offices or participating public libraries by Friday, March 17.
We will keep an updated list of participating Coalition offices and public libraries on our website here. Attached you will find the flier that will hang in each Coalition office and participating library.
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"Early Mathematics for Early Learners" Course Offering at PC Coalition Office on March 22
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The Coalition will offer the "Early Mathematics for Early Learners: Making Sense of Sets and Numbers" training on Wednesday, March 22, from 1 - 4 p.m. at the Panama City Coalition office. If you are a VPK teacher and interested in participating, please visit the below link to use the DCF portal for class registration. Class space is limited to 25 participants.
Once you have logged into the "DCF Child Care Training" site, choose "Instructor Led or Online Courses Enroll/Uneroll." There will be a blank space to enter the "Course Reference" ID (listed below). If you have questions, please contact Jana Miller at jana.miller@elcnwf.org.
Course ID: 7263
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The 5th Annual ArtKidDoo will be held on Saturday, April 8, in Chipley at Shivers Park from 10 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. If you would like to participate with us as a vendor booth, please complete the vendor application included below and email it to Suzan Gage at suzan.gage@elcnwf.org. There is no fee to participate as a vendor booth, so sign up today!
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THIS SERVICE IS NOW ACTIVE!
Attached please find the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Flier regarding services available for free income tax preparation from January 23 - April 17 in Bay County. VITA will also be available in Jackson and Washington Counties this year, and a flier will be included in the BLAST when it has been made available.
Please hang THIS VITA FLIER in your center for any who might need assistance with income tax preparation.
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Questions about child development or behavior? Ask the Warm Line.
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