RESOURCE FAIR THURSDAY – acquire funding through state grant programs!
Posted: August 25, 2020 Filed under: Administration for Children and Families, CCPP-approved Provider, Child Care Mississippi, Uncategorized | Tags: Administration for Children and Families, CCPP-approved Provider, child care Mississippi, Early Childhood Education Mississippi, Mississippi child care, Mississippi licensed child care Leave a commentRESOURCE FAIR THURSDAY – acquire funding through state grant programs!
A virtual Resource Fair will be held on Friday beginning at 9:00 AM.
There are a few seats left, but they are going fast!
Register today to :
acquire funding through state grant programs
save dollars monthly when ordering supplies and food
partner with service agencies to provide a more comprehensive program
support families of children you serve through networking
You will receive 2.5 professional development credit hours when you complete your survey at the end of the session.
Click here:
https://www.msresaservices.com/categories-EC
EARLY CHILDHOOD
This virtual conference will provide you with information on all the (mostly) FREE services you can access on a variety of topics. Speakers representing; Back to Business Mississippi, Barksdale Readin..
Online, 08/27/20
MECA Conference Registration! Also Available Online!
Posted: January 19, 2018 Filed under: Child Care Mississippi, Early Childhood Education Mississippi, Jackson State University, Kellogg Foundation, Uncategorized | Tags: child care Mississippi, Early Childhood Education Mississippi Leave a commentMECA Conference Registration! Also Available Online!
Click on this link: www.jsums.edu/marketplace
(https://epay.jsums.edu/C20107_ustores/web/classic/product_detail.jsp?PRODUCTID=118)
SECAC Meeting Cancelled! MLICCI says DHS has Put the “Cart before the Horse”!
Posted: May 24, 2017 Filed under: CCPP-approved Provider, Child Care Development Fund, Child Care Mississippi, DECCD-MDHS, Early Childhood Education Mississippi, HHS ACF Office of Child Care, MLICCI, MS Department of Human Services, NAEYC, QRS Mississippi, Quality Rating System, School Readiness Mississippi, SECAC Mississippi, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Uncategorized | Tags: 2007 Market Survey Rates, Administration for Children and Families, CCPP-approved Provider, child care Mississippi, child care quality rating systems Mississippi, DECCD, DECCD-MDHS, Early Childhood Education Mississippi, equal access, Market Survey Rates, MDHS, Mississippi CCDF State Plan, Mississippi licensed child care, Mississippi School Readiness, Quality Rating System; DECCD-MDHS; CCDF Quality Improvement, SECAC Mississippi Leave a commentSECAC Meeting Cancelled! MLICCI says
DHS has Put the “Cart before the Horse”!
The May 25, 2017 SECAC meeting has been cancelled.
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CDNA Pre-DHS Public Hearing Provider Meeting & Waterford Curriculum-Mississippi Upstart Summer Pilot Program
Posted: May 24, 2017 Filed under: CCPP-approved Provider, Child Care Mississippi, General, School Readiness Mississippi, Uncategorized | Tags: CCPP-approved Provider, child care Mississippi, Early Childhood Education Mississippi, Mississippi early childhood education Leave a commentPREP COMPANY ANNOUNCES:
CDNA Pre-DHS Public Hearing Provider Meeting Friday Noon May 26, 2017
Waterford Curriculum-Mississippi Upstart Summer Pilot Program Thursday Evening May 25, 2017
Prep Company Tutorial School 5332 North State Street, Jackson
ALL ARE WELCOME!
April SECAC Meeting Cancelled; Two Autism Screening Sites Relocated
Posted: April 23, 2017 Filed under: Administration for Children and Families, CCPP-approved Provider, Child Care Development Fund, Child Care Mississippi, DECCD-MDHS, Early Learning Guidelines (ELG), General, HHS ACF Office of Child Care, Mississippi Building Blocks, MS Department of Human Services, NAEYC, QRS Mississippi, Quality Rating System, SECAC, SECAC Mississippi, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Uncategorized | Tags: 2007 Market Survey Rates, Administration for Children and Families, DECCD, DECCD-MDHS, Early Childhood Education Mississippi, Early Learning Guidelines (ELG), Market Survey Rates, QRS Mississippi, Quality Rating System, Quality Rating System; DECCD-MDHS; CCDF Quality Improvement, SECAC Mississippi Leave a commentApril SECAC Meeting Cancelled; Two Autism Screening Sites Relocated
The scheduled April 27, 2017, meeting of the Governor’s SECAC ( State Early Childhood Advisory Council) has been cancelled. (Click here.)
SECAC has adopted a plan to require QRIS (in what amounts to having and maintaining a costly star level of 3 or above as outlined in the former quality rating Program … and more) for all providers serving children receiving child care assistance Certificates of Payment through a simple play of words. That is to say, instead of calling it a quality “rating”, SECAC calls it an environmental quality “assessment score” to be determined annually, regardless of the recommendation of every three years put forth in the Frank-Porter Graham evaluation of Mississippi’s former program or the ongoing concern for potential disparate impact presented by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
Despite valid objections and questions that were raised by providers and advocates at the March 23, 2017, SECAC meeting, DHS Executive Director John Davis, who serves at the pleasure of the Governor and whose agency is given the responsibility to implement the SECAC plan, filed proposed amendments to adopt the plan on April 12, 2017.
No economic impact statement including the impact to small business was included and no public hearing was scheduled.
Cancellation of the April 27, 2017, SECAC meeting means stakeholders will not have an opportunity to redress their concerns directly with the policy makers – members of SECAC – prior to the 30 days the proposed rules are scheduled to be in effect.
Further, contact information for individual members of SECAC and identity of the SECAC Committees on which they serve are also no longer available or accessible on the DHS (or new SECAC) website as they were throughout previous administrations.
However, child care providers and organizations are making written request to DHS Executive Director John Davis to ask that the agency provide a public hearing. Such requests must be mailed and/or attached by Email on an 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper and submitted by May 1, 2017. They must include the name, address, telephone number and Email address for individuals making the requests. APL (Administrative Procedures Law) requires a public hearing be held if ten persons make a written request for a public hearing within twenty days of an agency’s filing with the Secretary of State. Click here for more information and instructions for requesting a public hearing which is published on the NOTICE FILING.
Please note the changes in previously scheduled site locations for Autism Screenings in this updated MECIC flyer and share as needed.
NAEYC Accreditation Nationwide
Posted: March 27, 2017 Filed under: Administration for Children and Families, CCPP-approved Provider, Child Care Advisory Council, Child Care Development Fund, Child Care Mississippi, DECCD-MDHS, Early Childhood Education Mississippi, Early Learning Guidelines (ELG), Excel by 5, Head Start, HHS ACF Office of Child Care, Mississippi Building Blocks, MLICCI, MS Department of Education, MS Department of Human Services, NAEYC, QRS Mississippi, Quality Rating System, School Readiness Mississippi, SECAC, SECAC Mississippi, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Uncategorized | Tags: 2007 Market Survey Rates, Allies for Quality Care, CCPP-approved Provider, child care Mississippi, child care quality rating systems Mississippi, DECCD, DECCD-MDHS, Early Childhood Education Mississippi, Early Learning Guidelines (ELG), equal access, Market Survey Rates, MDHS, Mississippi CCDF State Plan, Mississippi child care, Mississippi Child Care Resource and Referral, Mississippi early childhood education, Mississippi early learning system, Mississippi licensed child care, Mississippi School Readiness, Quality Rating System; DECCD-MDHS; CCDF Quality Improvement, SECAC, SECAC Mississippi Leave a commentNAEYC Accreditation Nationwide
NAEYC Criteria as a Strategy for Improving Child Care
As you know, child care providers asked to review the Draft Standard Application on March 15, 2017, were presented self-assessment mirroring NAEYC criteria (which is closely aligned with ECERS) including a “required personnel registry”.
While it is the duty of DHS to carry out the implementation of the CCDF State Plan, the policy-makers and individuals responsible for sweeping change for disadvantaged child care small businesses are the members of the Governor’s SECAC. (Click here to review limited contact info and identification of State Early Childhood Advisory Council members. SECAC Committee members making the recommendations determining whether or not you will have the privilege to continue to serve low-income children for less than market rate – on a year by year basis based on assessment scores – are not listed.) Please do not contact me for telephone numbers. I have no such information I am willing to share. Thanks!
At the SECAC meeting held on March 23, 2017, I incorrectly reported only 2 NAEYC accredited child care centers in Mississippi – there are actually, currently 30 and most represent more stable sources of funding than the CCDF. Check it out! Hover your mouse over each blue balloon. (Click here.)
That is also a gain of 1 since 2007. See the 2007 NAEYC graphic below.
Ten percent, (10%) of child care programs across the nation hold NAEYC accreditation.
HHS has decided the government-child-care-market it created through the Child Care Development Fund over a period of two decades is no longer solely a work support system. It must be redesigned to demonstrate, and qualify (with degrees), and operate (equal) to Head Start and Title I Preschool programs without parity and without sufficient CCDF funding.
SECAC announced Mississippi’s CCDF State Plan was being carried out with NO REQUEST for additional CCDF funding.
Reprinted from Accreditation Update, Fall 2007, a publication of the National Association for the Education of Young Children
Saturday, Feb. 11th, Mississippi Early Childhood Alliance (MECA) Conference
Posted: February 8, 2017 Filed under: Administration for Children and Families, Child Care Mississippi, Early Childhood Education Mississippi, Early Learning Guidelines (ELG), School Readiness Mississippi, Uncategorized | Tags: child care Mississippi, Early Childhood Education Mississippi, Mississippi early learning system Leave a comment
Mississippi Early Childhood Alliance (MECA) Conference
You are invited to attend the 7th Annual MECA Conference at JSU, which is a partnership between the Childcare Directors Network Alliance (CDNA) and the Mississippi Learning Institute (MLI) at JSU. We strive to provide sessions that will assist you in providing quality educational skills and strategies in early childhood classrooms. Please join us for an exciting educational experience at our conference.
Mississippi Early Childhood Alliance Conference
8:30 a.m.—3:30 p.m.. ♦ Saturday, February 11, 2017
Registration Costs – $25 Per Person
Students with ID – $15 (Please register with your Student email; ex. Student@StateUniverity.edu)
Onsite Registration – $30 Per Person
Continuing Education Units (CEU) & Contact Hours – $20
Jackson State University Student Center – Ballrooms A & B – 3rd Floor
Credit Card Payment Only * No Cash or Personal Checks will be accepted
For conference registration, workshop and presenter submissions, and to learn more about being a corporate or community sponsorship please select the links below:
MECA Registration Form Corporate Sponsorship Levels
For media updates about MECA featured on Facebook click here.
MECA Mailing Address:
Mississippi Early Childhood Alliance
1400 John R. Lynch Street
P.O. Box 17066
Jackson State University
Jackson, MS 39217
GRASSROOTS STATEWIDE CONFERENCE DECEMBER 3RD
Posted: October 27, 2016 Filed under: Child Care Development Fund, Child Care Mississippi, Early Childhood Education Mississippi, HHS ACF Office of Child Care, SECAC Mississippi, Uncategorized | Tags: Administration for Children and Families, CCPP-approved Provider, child care Mississippi, DECCD, DECCD-MDHS, Early Childhood Education Mississippi, Mississippi child care, SECAC Mississippi Leave a commentMISSISSIPPI GRASSROOTS COALITION
12th STATEWIDE ANNUAL CONFERENCE
DECEMBER 3, 2016
8:00 a. m. – 4:00 p. m.
500 North Beech Street
Picayune, MS
Up to 6 age specific (infant-toddler and/or preschool) contact hours.
$15.00 per person. Fee includes lunch
and one year membership.
For more information,
call 601-569-3558
or 601-347-5509.
COMPLETE THE REGISTRATION FORM BELOW AND RETURN TO:
ATTN: Cora Rogers
P. O. Box 510
Lumberton, MS 39455
You may also email forms to coxlar@bellsouth.net
or fax to (601) 799-5484.
The Mississippi Department of Education Offers September Professional Development
Posted: September 1, 2016 Filed under: CCPP-approved Provider, Child Care Mississippi, Early Childhood Education Mississippi, MS Department of Education, Uncategorized | Tags: CCPP-approved Provider, child care Mississippi, DECCD, DECCD-MDHS, Early Childhood Education Mississippi, Mississippi CCDF State Plan, Mississippi early childhood education, Mississippi School Readiness, SECAC Mississippi Leave a commentThe Mississippi Department of Education Offers September Professional Development
(This professional development is NOT to be confused for the REQUIRED DHS September Child Care Provider Payment training NEEDED TO RECEIVE CERTIFICATES. Click here for the proper Child Care Provider Payment training link. )
The Mississippi Department of Education would like to remind you about its professional development opportunities available in September:
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Trainings are offered at no-cost to participants.
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All trainings are offered to public school district and early learning collaborative early childhood staff.
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The September session of LETRS training is also open to child care, Part C and Head Start staff.
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Approximately 0.6 CEUs, 5 SEMIs, and/or 6 contact hours will be awarded to participants.
Registration is through the North Mississippi Education Consortium. (Click here.)
September
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7th – Integrating Early Learning Standards into Activities: Approaches to Learning and Instructional Technology in Tupelo for pre-k staff
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7th and 8th – Pre-K LETRS in Oxford for pre-k staff
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13th (and 14th if the training demand is high enough) – A Day in the Early Childhood Classroom in Hattiesburg for pre-k and kindergarten staff as well as administrators
Additional trainings for pre-k and kindergarten staff may be requested through the Technical Assistance Request form at the following link: (Click here.)
You may also visit MDE’s Professional Development Calendar to view the above trainings and additional offerings. (Click here.)
These sessions will also be available in the spring. An announcement with the spring dates and locations will be sent later in the fall semester.
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