http://www.orchildcare.org Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:50:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Employee Acknowledgement http://www.orchildcare.org/2011/08/employee-acknowledgement/ http://www.orchildcare.org/2011/08/employee-acknowledgement/#comments Wed, 17 Aug 2011 18:20:25 +0000 oaccd_board http://www.orchildcare.org/?p=147 Employee Acknowledgement

]]> http://www.orchildcare.org/2011/08/employee-acknowledgement/feed/ 0 Director Opening http://www.orchildcare.org/2011/02/director-opening/ http://www.orchildcare.org/2011/02/director-opening/#comments Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:08:09 +0000 OACCD http://www.orchildcare.org/?p=42 Court Street Christian Church Child Care Center
JOB POSTING

Job Title: Director, Court Street Christian Child Care Center

Address: 1699 Court Street, Salem, Oregon, 97301

Contact: Abby King 503-581-3101 or abbyking2001@yahoo.com

Posting Date: Monday, February 7, 2011

Purpose: The title of the position is Director of Child Care Ministries of the Court Street Christian Church. The Director is responsible for the entire function of the Center, being accountable to an assigned Pastor, Church Eldership, the parents of children involved in the Center, and to Christ as the Head of the Church.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
• Provide knowledge and skills in Early Childhood Development
• Staff Management
• Knowledge of CCD Rules/Regulations, Fire Safety, Environmental Health
• Interpersonal Skills in Communication and Managing Relationships
• Provide Parent and Family Support
• Financial Management and Fiscal Responsibility
• Assume Teacher responsibilities when needed.

Competencies: (Recommended but not required)
• First Aid/CPR
• Enrolled in the Criminal History Registry
• Food Handlers Card
• Recognize and Reporting Child Abuse Training

Education and/or Experience:
• At least one year of training and/or experience in management and supervision of adults.
• Have knowledge of child development ages 2.5-6, as evidenced by a combination of professional references, education, experience or training
OR
• Documentation of attaining at least step nine in the Oregon Registry

]]> http://www.orchildcare.org/2011/02/director-opening/feed/ 0 Are you registered for the Spring Conference? http://www.orchildcare.org/2011/02/are-you-registered-for-the-spring-conference/ http://www.orchildcare.org/2011/02/are-you-registered-for-the-spring-conference/#comments Mon, 07 Feb 2011 00:09:22 +0000 OACCD http://www.orchildcare.org/?p=43 It’s not too late to register. Look at this fantastic schedule of events: 

Wednesday, March 9th
7:00-9:00 pm Join us for Savories and Sweets (as well as meeting new friends and reconnecting with those we haven’t seen in a while!)

Thursday, March 10th
7:30 am Conference Check in begins
8:00 am Continental Breakfast (Can you believe it? Your registration fee includes really yummy meals too!)
8:30 am Keynote & Morning Session with Anne-Louise Sterry (Do not miss this- she is amazing!)
11:30 am OACCD Affiliate Lunch (Can I sit anywhere I would like? Of course you can! Or connect with others at your area’s Affiliate table. This lunch is all about networking.)
1:00 pm Afternoon Workshops (So many good ones- how to choose?)
4:00-6:00 pm Free Time (chair massage, a walk on the beach, what’s not to love about those options?)
6:00 pm No-Host bar opens (What to wear? Dressy to casual, you’ll be a hit! Me? I’ll take any excuse to dress up!)
6:30 pm “The Tuscany” Dinner Buffet begins (Have you seen this menu? I can hardly wait.)

Friday, March 11th
7:30 am Conference Check in continues
7:45 am Plated Breakfast (More yummy food to enjoy!)
8:00 am Annual OACCD Business Meeting (This might be a business meeting but it is very fun!)
9:00 am to Noon Morning Workshops (Again, so many great choices, how can I decide?)
Noon- Don’t forget that Noon is checkout time if you are leaving today. Not me, I decided to take advantage of being at the beach and am spending another night. With another yummy meal to go, I am going to take a long walk on the beach to work off some of these calories!
12:00- 1:00 pm Sonoran Buffet Lunch (Wow, another great meal!)

1:30-4:30 pm Afternoon Workshops (these are all designed to stimulate and challenge your brain as well as keep you awake after that wonderful lunch.)
4:30 pm Turn in Conference Evaluations and your name badge to be entered into a drawing for Door Prizes. Never win anything you say? We have so many door prizes that your odds are better than ever!
If you would like to see this schedule without my commentary, please go to the OACCD website and see the full schedule. It won’t be nearly as entertaining though!
]]> http://www.orchildcare.org/2011/02/are-you-registered-for-the-spring-conference/feed/ 0 2011 Spring Conference http://www.orchildcare.org/2011/01/2011-spring-conference/ http://www.orchildcare.org/2011/01/2011-spring-conference/#comments Wed, 05 Jan 2011 00:10:47 +0000 OACCD http://www.orchildcare.org/?p=44 Save the Date! 2011 OACCD Spring Conference is back at the beach!!

Join us for Perils of the Passion
March 9-11, 2011
Agate Beach Inn
Newport Oregon

More details to follow.

]]> http://www.orchildcare.org/2011/01/2011-spring-conference/feed/ 0 Fall Conference 2010 http://www.orchildcare.org/2010/10/fall-conference-2010/ http://www.orchildcare.org/2010/10/fall-conference-2010/#comments Fri, 08 Oct 2010 00:11:48 +0000 OACCD http://www.orchildcare.org/?p=45 Returning by popular demand:

Oregon Association of Child Care Directors
Fall Conference

Saturday, November 6
Western Oregon University
Monmouth, Oregon

Bring your whole staff for a day of unbeatable training!

Can you say Stress Management with a Smile on Your Face?

How Thinking Like a 5-Year-Old Can Help Maintain Your Sanity and Improve Your Health

Core Knowledge Category: Personal, Professional & Leadership Development Approval pending Oregon Registry Trainer Program for this conference to be a Set II training.

So many of the things we need to know about playing well with others, sharing, looking forward to new things in the future, and letting go of stress are things we knew when we were five. Unfortunately, with age comes responsibilities stressors and vices in our heads that insist we grow up and get serious. Join Leigh Anne Jasheway, MPH (master of public health/mistress at public humor) for the funny, informative, and interactive training that will help you lighten up, be more empathetic, choose optimism in the face of change and live an all-around happier life. Bring your imagination, your willing
spirit, and your blankie. Okay, maybe not your blankie, but it wouldn’t hurt.

LEIGH ANNE JASHEWAY-BRYANT

Presenter Information

Leigh Anne Jasheway-Bryant holds a masters degree in public health and is an expert in stress management. She has been doing stand -up comedy and motivational speaking for 15 years. She uses her stand up comedy to share topics of humor, fun, joyful and positive living, and stress management. She is the author of 15 books Including “Don’t Get Mad, Get Funny: A Light-hearted Approach to Stress Management. Jasheway-Bryant speaks at 40 -60 conferences a year and performs more than 30 shows each year.

You may visit Leigh Anne Jasheway-Bryant’s website, www.accidentalcomic.com or her blog, www.laughwithme.typepad.com for more information.

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Saturday November 6, 2010
More details to follow!

]]> http://www.orchildcare.org/2010/09/save-the-date/feed/ 0 Contact Us http://www.orchildcare.org/2010/03/contact-us/ http://www.orchildcare.org/2010/03/contact-us/#comments Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:13:41 +0000 OACCD http://www.orchildcare.org/?p=47 Would you like to comment on a blog entry but you are uncomfortable becoming a “Follower” of this blog? We welcome your comments, questions, suggestions via email. Just send them to OregonACCD@gmail.com and we are happy to accommodate your feedback that way. Just remember to tell us if you would like your comments to remain anonymous! We look forward to hearing from you soon!

]]> http://www.orchildcare.org/2010/03/contact-us/feed/ 0 FYI http://www.orchildcare.org/2010/03/fyi/ http://www.orchildcare.org/2010/03/fyi/#comments Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:10:31 +0000 OACCD http://www.orchildcare.org/?p=48 Forwarded from Janet Walsh (Deputy Director, Women’s Rights Division
Human Rights Watch):

Paid Parental Leave Research shows that paid parental leave can reduce infant mortality, improve immunization rates and health outcomes for mothers and babies, increase fathers’ participation in child care, improve breastfeeding initiation and duration, strengthen women’s connection to the workplace, avoid family poverty spells, and reduce businesses’ recruitment and training costs. Paid parental leave is considered a human right under several international treaties (not ratified by the US), and 177 countries now have laws guaranteeing paid parental leave. Only a few, including the United States, Papua New Guinea, Swaziland, and Australia, do not have national laws on paid parental leave. Australia will offer 18 paid weeks starting in 2011. In the United States, the national Family and Medical Leave Act requires only unpaid leave. Only two states (California and New Jersey) currently offer paid parental leave, and a handful of others offer temporary disability insurance to mothers after childbirth. States that do offer such paid leave generally fund their programs through small payroll deductions into a state-wide insurance fund, minimizing the impact on any particular business. For the most part, it is up to employers to decide whether to offer this benefit. Some employers, especially larger ones, do so with good results. Other employers would like to, but can’t without the help of a social insurance fund. As of 2008, only 9 percent of civilian US workers had paid family (including parental) leave, and among the lowest-income workers, only 3 percent had such leave.
Access to parental leave with pay when a child is born or adopted is an important support for working families, yet the vast majority of US private sector workers do not have this benefit.
Human Rights Watch (http://www.hrw.org/), a nongovernmental human rights group, is interviewing parents in the US about their experiences with unpaid maternity and paternity leave, and the impact on their families. The interviews will be used for a report (using pseudonyms, not actual names of interviewees) and for making recommendations on US law and policy.
HRW is seeking parents to interview by phone in the coming month. The interviews last about 25-30 minutes. They cover the challenges parents have faced when they have little or no paid parental leave, especially with respect to child health (getting immunizations, essential health care, etc.), establishing or continuing breastfeeding, recovering from childbirth, managing financially without paid leave, and with respect to their jobs and careers. There is no compensation for the interviews.
Please contact Janet Walsh at walshj@hrw.org if you have experienced parental leave with limited or no pay and are willing to be interviewed.
]]> http://www.orchildcare.org/2010/03/fyi/feed/ 0 Spring Conference 2010 – Thank You! http://www.orchildcare.org/2010/03/spring-conference-2010-thank-you/ http://www.orchildcare.org/2010/03/spring-conference-2010-thank-you/#comments Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:00:18 +0000 OACCD http://www.orchildcare.org/?p=28 Thank you for joining us at the 2010 OACCD Spring Conference this year located at the Eugene, Oregon Hilton and Conference Center. This year was a very special one as we celebrate 30 years of Education, Advocacy and Support.

And what celebration is complete without cake?
 

Time to check in! Val Rylands, OACCD Board Secretary does an amazing job making sure everything is in order and ready for our conference attendees. She makes it look so easy doesn’t she?

We were so excited to hear the story of how OACCD came into being. One of our foundresses, Pat Sheppard told us the brainstorm that is now a thriving organization some thirty years later. We are grateful to Pat for having the foresight and confidence to bring us to our present Oregon Association of Child Care Directors!
Our Keynote Speaker was Eugene’s Mayor, Kitty Piercy. Mayor Piercy is a lifelong advocate for children and families. As the longest standing Commissioner, she brings a wealth of experience and commitment to lead policy changes that have improved the lives of children and families in Oregon. Mayor Kitty Piercy shared with us the priorities established by the Commission for Child Care and current efforts to forward these priorities.
One of our most yummy meals! Meal time is always a great time to relax and to enjoy meeting new friends and making new acquaintances.

Trainer Jennie Sowder oversees a small group activity.

Board members waiting for everyone to gather so we can start the annual meeting. Dawn, how can you be so chipper this early in the morning?!!

Another presenter, Holly King…all smiles and ready to fill our eager minds with lots of knowledge and practical hints to bring out the leader in all of us! 

Before we know it, we are at the end of another fantastic conference. But first it’s DOOR PRIZE time and the best one of all…a $100 bill from sponsorChris Willhite and Associates, from Springfield, Oregon. Thank you Chris for the support you have given OACCD over the years. We are so grateful to you!


]]> http://www.orchildcare.org/2010/03/spring-conference-2010-thank-you/feed/ 0 Spring Conference 2010! http://www.orchildcare.org/2010/02/spring-conference-2010/ http://www.orchildcare.org/2010/02/spring-conference-2010/#comments Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:23:11 +0000 OACCD http://www.orchildcare.org/?p=27 It’s not too late to register for the Spring Conference but you better hurry! Click on the link in Sunday’s post to make sure you are part of the excellent training and networking that will take place March 10-12th in Eugene. We are looking forward to seeing all of you there!

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