CCAoNH Early Childhood
Focused Collaborative Meetings
This year, CCAoNH, a program of Southern New Hampshire Services will be offering virtual Early Childhood Focused Collaborative Meetings once more for Directors, Administrators, Teachers and other Early Childhood Professionals. These Meetings are group-driven to reflect the participant’s needs and interests and to provide participants with information around the focused topics. In addition, participants will learn about Child Care Aware of NH program updates, essential local and State information, and other professional development opportunities.

Click here or on the flyer for more details about our Early Childhood Focused Collaborative Meetings.

Go to the NHCIS Training Tile to register for an Early Childhood Focused Collaborative Meeting.

Look below for this month's topics and to see what Focused Collaboratives we are offering this year!
.Early Childhood Collaborative: NAEYC Accreditation 
Date: Tuesday, November 2, 2021
Time: 1:00-2:30 PM
Location: Online Zoom Meeting
Facilitator: Liz Scruton, MA, ECMPWT
Topic: This month, participants will partake in various discussions surrounding NAEYC statements, best practices and evidence updates. A led discussion will review the NAEYC "Ethical Conduct and Statement of Commitment" and supporting documents to identify the personal acknowledgment ECE educators have to embrace values and moral obligations. A general Q&A format will follow for individuals to share questions about NAEYC practices or evidence as well as an opportunity to brief about information from NAEYC.

Early Childhood Collaborative:
Infant & Toddler Programming and Curriculum
Date: Tuesday, November 2, 2021
Time: 6:30-8:00 PM
Location: Online Zoom Meeting
Facilitators: Katelynn Karugu, ECMPWT & Lindsey Parisi, ECMPWT
Topic: This month, participants will partake in a Question and Answer session related to Nutrition and Sensory Feeding Challenges with Patricia Murray, RD, Med, LD. She is a Pediatric Nutritionist who specializes in this topic. Participants may email questions ahead of time to lparisi@snhs.org, so the guest speaker can better prepare. Questions should be related to infant and toddler nutrition and sensory eating challenges that can happen with these age groups. 

Early Childhood Collaborative:
Family Engagement and Communication
Date: Wednesday, November 3, 2021
Time: 1:00-2:30 PM
Location: Online Zoom Meeting
Facilitators: Liz Scruton, MA, ECMPWT & Karen Abbott, ECMPWT
Topic: This month, a team from Waypoint will be joining us. They will be highlighting the resources available to families, talking about upcoming programming and informing participants on how they can help spread the word about Family Support Services. This is a chance to learn about what Family Resource Centers (FRC) are all about. This session will also provide an important opportunity for Waypoint to learn about the important work of Early Childhood Programs. 

Early Childhood Collaborative:
Family Child Care
Date: Thursday, November 4, 2021
Time: 6:30-8:00 PM
Location: Online Zoom Meeting
Facilitators: Connie Davis, ECMPWT
Topic: This month, Connie Davis, ECMPWT, Family Child Care Support Specialist, from Child Care Aware of NH, a program of Southern New Hampshire Services will be providing the training: Pyramid Model: Structuring Your Day. This training will focus on ways you can structure your day to help support children's transitions as well as examine various picture and object schedules to find ones that may fit your needs.  

Early Childhood Collaborative:
Business Management Practices
Date: Tuesday, October 12, 2021
Time: 1:00-2:30 PM
Location: Online Zoom Meeting
Facilitators: Donna Lake, ECMPWT
Topic: This month, Laurie Rardin, Environmental Health Coordinator at the Bureau of Public Health Protection, Division of Public Health Services, will be talking about the Choose Safe Places for Early Care and Education Program. Choose Safe Places for Early Care and Education gives towns, cities, and states a framework to adopt practices that will make sure ECE programs are located away from chemical hazards and to reduce environmental exposure to children and adults in the programs. Laurie is looking for input from Early Childhood providers on what would support Early Childhood programs with private wells or water systems about safe water practices. Examples may include: Would low or no-cost water testing be something you would like to see? Do you know what types of testing you should be doing? Please join us to discuss your needs.

Early Childhood Collaborative:
Child Care Aware of NH News and Updates
Date: Wednesday, November 10, 2021
Time: 12:30-2:00 PM
Location: Online Zoom Meeting
Facilitators: Donna Lake, ECMPWT, Meg Atwood, ECMPWT, Karen Abbot, ECMPWT and Tracy Pond, MS, ECMPWT
Topic: This month, participants will partake in a discussion, Hiring Headaches: Let’s Talk Marketing and Hiring. During this meeting, participants are asked to bring a resource to share with other participants to take back to their programs. Examples may include a job posting, a job description, or websites you have had success in hiring with. This topic is an extension of the 2021 Fall Leadership Summit. Registration is open to everyone.

Early Childhood Collaborative:
Preschool Programming and Curriculum
Date: Wednesday, November 10, 2021
Time: 6:30-8:00 PM
Location: Online Zoom Meeting
Facilitators: Donna Lake, ECMPWT
Topic: This month, Megg Thompson will be presenting the training,"Love Vs. Fear". Megg will provide us with tools and strategies to support challenging behavior in the preschool classroom. This training was rescheduled from our last meeting in October.

Early Childhood Collaborative:
Pyramid Model
Date: Monday, November 15, 2021
Time: 6:30-8:00 PM
Location: Online Zoom Meeting
Facilitators: Stephanie Therrien, ECMPWT
Topic:  This month, Christine Brown, ECMPWT, and Montessori preschool teacher with 22 years' experience will lead a discussion on how elements of social-emotional teaching in a Montessori classroom overlap with those of the Pyramid Model.

Early Childhood Collaborative:
Engagement, Education and Advocacy
Date: Tuesday, November 16, 2021
Time: 9:30 AM-11:00 AM
Location: Online Zoom Meeting
Facilitators: Meg Atwood, ECMPWT
Topic: This month, Rebecca Woitkowski, Kids Count Policy Coordinator, from New Futures will be joining us. Rebecca will be presenting about who New Futures, their current advocacy efforts and how you can get involved in advocacy.

Early Childhood Collaborative:
With a Montessori Perspective
Date: Wednesday, November 17, 2021
Time: 6:30-8:00 PM
Location: Online Zoom Meeting
Facilitators: Christine Brown, ECMPWT
Topic: This month, Annamarie Censullo, Credentialing Specialist, from the Bureau of Child Development and Head Start Collaboration will be joining us. She will be talking about the process of applying for a Credential and how to submit the application.
Registration Information:
  • Registration is free and available through the NHCIS Training Tile.
  • To register use the “Week View” or Month View”. Please note, registration cannot be completed in the “List View”.
  • On the morning of the meeting, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting as well as the evaluation link.  
  • Registration is online only and pre-registration is required. 


Questions: Email ccrrtraining@snhs.org or call at (603) 578-1386, ext. 2526 and ext. 2532.
Child Care Aware of NH, a program of Southern New Hampshire Services
Child Care Aware of NH is a statewide Child Care Resource and Referral Program of Southern New Hampshire Services. The preparation of this email was financed under a Contract with the State of New Hampshire, Department of Health and Human Services, Division for Economic and Housing Stability, Bureau of Child Development and Head Start Collaboration with funds provided in part by the State of New Hampshire and the US Department of Health and Human Services.