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Free Training Available: Strengthening Business Practices for Child Care Programs
Training content and activities are designed to strengthen child care providers’ foundational knowledge of sound fiscal management and business operations.
Business Administration Scale (BAS) Community of Practice Pilot
The Program Quality Assessment team is offering two cohorts of the Business Administration Scale (BAS) Community of Practice Community of Practice (COP) to eligible family child care providers.
Program Administration Scale (PAS) Community of Practice Pilot
The Pennsylvania Key in partnership with OCDEL is planning to offer a Program Administration Scale (PAS) Community of Practice Pilot to eligible child care program directors.
Changes to Environment Rating Scale (ERS) Self-Paced Professional Development in the PD Registry
The Pennsylvania Key no longer offers the self-paced Environment Rating Scale (ERS) online courses.
Resources for Impacts to Medicare and CHIP
Now that the public health emergency surrounding COVID-19 has expired, states will require eligibility renewals for most receiving Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) for the first time since March 2020.
OCDEL Announces Obsolete Certification Announcements for Certified Child Care Providers
The Pennsylvania Office of Child Development and Early Learning (OCDEL), Bureau of Early Learning Policy and Professional Development and Bureau of Certification Services have issued that several Announcements for certified child care providers have been rendered obsolete.
Continued Suspended Child Care Certification Regulations Until October 31
OCDEL has announced some child care certification regulations relating to indoor child care spaces, child growth and development reports, and school-age children continue to be suspended until October 31, 2022.
Complete the 2022 Child Care Market Rate Survey
OCDEL is asking all Pennsylvania licensed child care facilities to complete the 2022 Child Care Market Rate Survey and share information about tuition rates and the true cost of care.
CDA Program Available At No Cost to Eligible Professionals
ELRC Region 5’s quality partner Trying Together is offering a CDA program at no cost to eligible early childhood professionals in Pennsylvania.