Intended Audience: FCCB workshops are intended for licensed and license-exempt child care providers, family, friend, and neighbor providers, and other providers who care for children in mixed-age groups. Workshop content is centered on children ages birth – five, in home care settings. Workshops do not fulfill pre-licensure requirements and provide ECE units.

Training Description: Unlike other child care settings, family child care homes and some center-based care settings integrate children of different ages. These settings provide children a greater opportunity for a variety of friendships and relationships than they could have in a group of same age children. Mixed age range settings provide opportunities for children to observe, imitate, and initiate a wide range of skills that are founded on developmentally appropriate practice. Participants will engage in: identification of the role of the adult as a careful planner theoretical frameworks that support the importance of play setting up a safe place for all ages and all children to learn and grow strategies to benefit mixed age children in one group setting.

Funded by The California Department of Social Services, Administered by WestEd