WFCCA NEWSLETTER
Volume 40, Issue 2 Summer 2021
|
Kiddos at Country Cuties enjoying their baby goats.
|
|
Hello Fellow Family Child Care Providers,
I hope you are all having a fantastic start to summer. I know my crew and I have been spending a lot of time outdoors enjoying the hot weather!
I am super excited to begin my term as President of WFCCA; many of you know me as I have been the Conference Chair for the past 15 years or so. I have also been a member of the WFCCA Board of Directors since 1992, except when I took a brief break for a year or two.
A little bit about myself for those of you who don’t know me, I have been a licensed family child care provider in Wisconsin for 30 years. I am married to my best friend and high school sweetheart; we have a 27-year-old daughter and a 24-year-old son. I love the outdoors in the summertime definitely more than in the winter. We have a permanent campsite where we spend pretty much every weekend from Thursday-Sunday during the months of April-October. I also run a couple of side businesses, so I am a pretty busy person, but being busy makes me happy.
My goals as your President are to make sure our little voices are heard loudly as one. I hope to have some discussions about Large Family Child Care in Wisconsin, and I would like to help educate our communities on the difference between regulated and unregulated care to encourage more unregulated providers to become regulated. If you have any concerns you would like us to discuss and address, feel free to email me personally at tikesntotsfcc@aol.com.
I miss seeing everyone and cannot wait to see many of you at our Conference this fall. Because of the pandemic, we had to move our conference several times over the past 16 months. We are so excited to be holding a live conference from September 16-18, 2021 at the Chula Vista in Wisconsin Dells. If you see me at the Conference, stop and say “hi,” I would love to hear from you!
Enjoy your summer!
Tara Ebben,
WFCCA President
|
|
2021 WFCCA Conference registration is now open. |
|
|
Conference Presenters
Presenter Proposals are being accepted until June 30, 2021.
|
|
Calling all presenters! Workshop proposals from qualified professionals in the Early Childhood field or related fields are now being accepted.
Whether you're a seasoned presenter, or just starting out, we'd love to have you participate!
|
|
Sneak peek: Check out our Keynote Speaker’s
Ron Shuali: activates the "yearning for learning" that resides inside us all. Head on over to https://www.ronspeak.com/ to learn more.
Visit Lisa Murphy (Ooey Gooey): https://www.ooeygooey.com/
to see what she has brewing.
Books by our Keynotes:
|
|
WFCCA Board Open Positions
Region 1 Rep. - Columbia, Dane, Dodge, Green, Jefferson, Rock, Sauk, and Walworth Counties (2 seats available)
Region 3 Rep. - Buffalo, Chippewa, Dunn, Eau Claire, Jackson Counties, Pepin, Pierce, Polk, St. Croix, and Trempealeau Counties (1 seat available)
Region 4 Rep. - Ashland, Bayfield, Burnett, Douglas, Florence, Forest, Iron, Oneida, Price, Rusk, Vilas, and Washburn counties (1 seat available)
Region 5 Rep. - Brown, Door, Kewaunee, Marinette, Menominee, Oconto, and Shawano counties (3 seats available)
Region 7 Rep. - Green Lake, Fond Du Lac, Sheboygan, Winnebago, Calumet, Manitowoc, Outagamie, and Waupaca counties (2 seats available)
Region 8 Rep. - Kenosha, Racine, Milwaukee, Waukesha, Ozaukee, and Washington counties (1 seat available)
|
|
Make WFCCA your AmazonSmile charity by going to smile.amazon.com and choosing Wisconsin Family Child Care Association.
AmazonSmile donates 0.5% of the price of your eligible AmazonSmile purchases to the charitable organization of your choice.
You shop. Amazon gives.
|
|
Region Spotlight
Region 4
|
|
At Just Playing Child Care we spend the majority of our day in our outdoor classroom. To beat the heat, we have water play accessible all day, each day of the week.
When the children started to lose interest in our regular water toys, we got creative. In reality, any toy can be a water toy if you put them in the water!
|
|
|
OPPORTUNITIES
Education
UW-Whitewater expands its offerings of Credentials along with the Early Child Care and Education degree.
|
|
Executive Directors and Operational Chairpersons
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
