Our mission is to improve the quality of child care and early education. We serve children, their families and caregivers in the greater Houston and Gulf Coast area. The purpose of the project is to improve the quality of child care by offering training opportunities to caregivers to expand their knowledge and skills in early childhood care and education. The goal of the project is to offer a wide variety of training experiences to child care staff and administrators. The eight Core Knowledge Areas required by the TWC and identified in the Texas Head Start Collaboration Project.
All training also includes an anti-bias, multicultural and special needs components.
Training offered in the 1998 project year will award Continuing Education Units to participants. Since 1995, caregivers have had opportunities to identify their training needs through surveys, workshop evaluations and CCMS Service Improvement Plans. Annually, IFC submits a comprehensive Training Plan to TWC that outlines strategies to address these training needs. In brief, caregivers requested training that is easily accessible, affordable and clearly relevant to their daily work with children. This means that training must be in the communities where they live and work.