Happy Child Care Appreciation Day!

Hello, Providers!

We want to take a moment to thank each and every one of our providers for the dedication of their time and hearts to teach little ones across North Central Oklahoma. You all do amazing work! As a thank you, Resource and Referral will be going out the first week of May to deliver a gift to each provider. We will call when we drop it off so you can pick it up after we leave.

We have started our Complete Update 2 for this semester. Please remember that we are required to do updates twice a year. This will help families in our area looking for child care. If you have not already completed the survey, please click the link to update your facility. Please contact Kristine Abbott at kabbott@delawarechild.org or 918-397-3007 if you have any questions or have issues with the survey. You can also text your R&R Specialist to update your information as well.

With COVID-19 still a daily struggle for providers, we are still minimizing in-person trainings. At the current time, R&R is only doing trainings scheduled with one center at a time; this means that we will not have open trainings for different providers. If you are a center director and would like training for your staff, please contact your R&R Specialist to see about scheduling and social distance protocols.

Your R&R Specialists would like to remind everyone of free trainings on CECPD. Please go to okregistry.org to find the Statewide Calendar. This calendar has all available trainings in the state of Oklahoma. Find the drop-down tab labeled “Training Fee” to select free to find trainings that are free to attend. The Pyramid Model Modules are available for free and can be a total of 18 hours for training - simply search Pyramid Model on the calendar to find the link to sign up. CECPD has online training and announced that they will be adding free trainings a month until June. To sign up, go to cecpdonline.org and find the link to free trainings on the home page. A reminder - your registry login will be different from cecpdonline.org. If you have not done training on this site, you will need to register for a new account.

All resource kits are available for check out. If you are interested in borrowing a kit, please contact your R&R Specialist. Resource kits are cleaned and sanitized when they come back to us from other providers. We want to ensure that our providers and children are protected against viruses and germs.

Resource & Referral Director

Kelsey Thomas

kthomas@delawarechild.org

918-766-6758

Resource & Referral Specialist

(Kay, Noble, Washington, & Nowata)

Kristine Abbott

kabbott@delawarechild.org

918-397-3007

Resource & Referral Specialist

(Payne, Logan, Lincoln, Pawnee, and Osage)

Heather Cruz