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Training & Consultation
Childcare Consultation
Would you like to establish or improve a community childcare program? Consultants from the Jordan Child & Family
Enrichment Center can come to your site and help you examine your unique needs and explore the community
dynamics that support or inhibit how you provide quality childcare.
Consultation focuses on:
- the steps and decisions involved in starting a new program
- administrative issues regarding center and staff management
- children's developmental needs and abilities
- designing appropriate and fun learning environments
- becoming better informed about health and safety issues
- the critical nature of healthy and caring relationships
Jordan Center consultants can help you:
- assess your ability to start a childcare program
- learn what is involved in program start-up
- learn what makes childcare "quality"
- create administrative policies and procedures
- prepare a budget
- design indoor and outdoor learning spaces and select equipment
- manage a happy staff
- effectively include all children in your program
- improve an already good program
- move up the Five-Star Rating Scale
The Jordan Center helps those who work most closely with children, parents, childcare
providers, educators, and administrators, develop new skills, exchange ideas, gain
confidence, and observe model childcare practices.
Our training activities include:
- collaboration with other community agencies to provide special training for
parents and teachers
- on-site observation of quality childcare practices
- special events geared to enhancing quality childcare in your community
- sessions which address specific parenting issues
See Our Training Opportunities for
Early Childhood Educators and Parents
Additional Training Services
In addition to providing direct services to children and families in North Carolina, Methodist Home for
Children is committed to providing consultation and training services that positively impact programs and
organizations. With over 100 years of experience, Methodist Home for Children's proficiency in skill based
practices and application are supported by outcome and research-based studies that demonstrate deep knowledge,
vast expertise and a foundation of competence.
Comprehensive assessments identify and explore areas of strength as well as areas for development and
improvement. From these, individualized strategies, unique to each business, are designed for immediate
and sustained implementation.
Our complement of services of strength building services targeted to positively impact programs, organizations
and teams include:
Organizational Challenges and Opportunities
- Incongruence between Mission and Direction
- Good People vs. the Right People
- Organizational Restructuring
- Reframing
- Downsizing
- Financial Accountability
- Effective Management Practices
- Organizational Benchmarking
Daily Management Challenges and Opportunities
- Managing Around Staff
- Failing at Best Behavior
- Group and Individual Feedback
- Drama
- 90-day plans
- Getting the monkey off your back
- Interview, Documentation, Observation (I DO)
- Coaching
- Mentoring
- Leadership Development
Contact Person:
Ellen Scarborough
Director of Consultation and Program Development
888.305.4321 ext. 313 or
escarborough@mhfc.org