children, geographic area, etc.)? How do you plan to recruit child care providers/staff to attend trainings? Include the names of agencies/organizations who are primary referral sources for clients. Client Retention: How do you incentivize participants to come to additional trainings? Progress Monitoring and Follow-Up: How do you assess whether participants are increasing their knowledge and skills? How is follow-up conducted with participants of trainings? Staff and Resources: Describe the staff and resources devoted to this strategy, including staff qualifications, and how staff and resources will support the projected increase in numbers served over the next few years. Implementation Self-Assessment, Child Care Training Rate how well your program is currently doing, relative to each of the following implementation metrics. Refer to the First Steps Program Accountability Standards for guidance. If one or more Benchmarks do not apply to your strategy, explain why. Partnerships are strongly encouraged to seek from clients, staff, and partners in order to complete this section. Current Rating Check the box that best describes how well this program currently meets Implementation Reason(s) for Rating Metric the benchmark (check by clicking on the box) CLIENT Advancing staff Needs Improvement Meets Exceeds knowledge and At the conclusion of the At the conclusion of the At the conclusion of the skills trainings, participants trainings, participants trainings, participants don’t usually demonstrate demonstrate new demonstrate new any new skills/knowledge skills/knowledge gained, skills/knowledge gained gained but might not have a and a clear plan to plan to operationalize it operationalize it in their in their classrooms. classrooms. CLIENT Follow-Up Needs Improvement Meets Exceeds Training does not include Training includes a Training includes one or a follow-up component follow-up component, multiple follow-up but follow-up could be components. Follow up improved (ex., follow-up enables training work isn’t completed by attendees to improve participants, follow-up is practice and has a done inconsistently, demonstrated impact on follow-up strategy does the classroom not appear to be impacting the classroom)
children, geographic area, etc.)? How do you plan to recruit child care providers/staff to attend trainings? Include the names of agencies/organizations who are primary referral sources for clients. Client Retention: How do you incentivize participants to come to additional trainings? Progress Monitoring and Follow-Up: How do you assess whether participants are increasing their knowledge and skills? How is follow-up conducted with participants of trainings? Staff and Resources: Describe the staff and resources devoted to this strategy, including staff qualifications, and how staff and resources will support the projected increase in numbers served over the next few years. Implementation Self-Assessment, Child Care Training Rate how well your program is currently doing, relative to each of the following implementation metrics. Refer to the First Steps Program Accountability Standards for guidance. If one or more Benchmarks do not apply to your strategy, explain why. Partnerships are strongly encouraged to seek from clients, staff, and partners in order to complete this section. Implementation Metric Current Rating Check the box that best describes how well this program currently meets the benchmark (check by clicking on the box) Reason(s) for Rating CLIENT Advancing staff knowledge and skills Needs Improvement At the conclusion of the trainings, participants don’t usually demonstrate any new skills/knowledge gained Meets At the conclusion of the trainings, participants demonstrate new skills/knowledge gained, but might not have a plan to operationalize it in their classrooms. Exceeds At the conclusion of the trainings, participants demonstrate new skills/knowledge gained and a clear plan to operationalize it in their classrooms. CLIENT Follow-Up Needs Improvement Training does not include a follow-up component Meets Training includes a follow-up component, but follow-up could be improved (ex., follow-up work isn’t completed by participants, follow-up is done inconsistently, follow-up strategy does not appear to be impacting the classroom) Exceeds Training includes one or multiple follow-up components. Follow up enables training attendees to improve practice and has a demonstrated impact on the classroom
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