Technical Assistance
What is Technical Assistance, Coaching and Consultation?
This enhanced professional development service can support your program through mentoring and coaching early childhood professionals in a wide variety of early childhood topics.
Using a strength-based approach, Training and TA Specialists focus on improving program quality by working with child care providers on focused and targeted State Initiatives.
These services can be provided by Training and Technical Assistance Specialists through Child Care Aware of NH.
Technical assistance, coaching and consultation is provided via the phone/email, virtually and/or onsite.
Benefits of TA
Receiving technical assistance has many benefits to educators and child care programs. Benefits include:
- Establishing clear goals with measurable outcomes
- Establishing clear action steps to reach goals
- Supporting guided self-reflection
- Improving program quality
- Increasing teacher and professional competency
- Building relationships between Training & TA Specialist and Teacher/Program
- NAEYC/NACCRRA Glossary
TA Initiatives
Child Care Aware of NH provides technical assistance on targeted State Initiatives. These Initiatives are outlined below:
- Business Management Practices
- Developmental Screening/Assessment
- Emergency Preparedness
- Health and Safety
- Infant and Toddler Care
- NH Early Childhood Professional Development System
- NH Early Learning Standards
- NHCIS Professional Registry
- Shared Services
- Strengthening Families
- Teacher Competency
- Teaching Dual Language Learners
Progressive Training & Technical Assistance Program (PT&TAP)
The Progressive Training and Technical Assistance Program offers child care programs an opportunity to participate in focused and facilitated training and technical assistance. This program provides individualized technical assistance to improve program quality. Programs commit to work with CCAoNH on a long term basis to improve quality and practices around one of seven State Initiatives:
Progressive Training and TA Program Topics:
- Business Management Practices: Supports Program Administrators/Directors through assessment and goal setting to support and cultivate quality business management practices.
- Infant & Toddler Team Initiative: Supports Infant and Toddler Providers to obtain their Infant/Toddler Endorsement, as well as works to incorporate the NH Early Learning Standards into their work with this age group.
- NH Early Learning Standards: Supports Programs in implementing and incorporating the NH Early Learning Standards into their program through daily activities, planning and communication with families.
- Program Emergency Preparedness and Response: Supports Programs further develop their Emergency Operations Plan and Continuity of Operations Plan, as well as practice the Emergency Response Drills to help them be more equipped for an emergency.
- Staff Qualifications Initiative: Supports Programs and their staff in navigating the NHCIS Professional Registry, assess individual knowledge and skills using teacher competencies, creating annual professional development plans and applying for individual credentials and/or endorsements through the NH Early Childhood Professional Development System.
- Strengthening Families, Strengthening Care: Supports Programs in evaluating their current practices around family engagement and incorporating the Protective Factors to enhance their work with the families they serve
Progressive Training and TA Open Enrollment Application:
The Progressive Training and TA Program now has an open enrollment process. Programs simply need to fill out the application that is below and email it to [email protected] and they will be contacted by a Training and TA Specialist.
Please note, that depending on the number of Progressive and TA Program Applications and other enhanced professional development opportunities being offered at the time your application is received, your program may be placed on a wait list until a Training and TA Specialist becomes available.
Progressive Training and TA Program Application:
Early Childhood Cohorts
CCAoNH’s Early Childhood Cohorts use an approach that brings multiple programs together that want to work on the same specific State Initiative. Participants have the opportunity to collaborate with peers, as they obtain resources and support through professional development and technical assistance in a cooperative group setting.
CCAoNH offers the following Cohorts:
- Business Management Practices Cohort: Supports Program Administrators/Directors through assessment and goal setting to support and cultivate quality business management practices.
- Infant & Toddler Team Initiative Cohort: Supports Infant and Toddler Providers to obtain their Infant/Toddler Endorsement, as well as works to incorporate the NH Early Learning Standards into their work with this age group.
- NH Early Learning Standards Cohort: Supports Programs in implementing and incorporating the NH Early Learning Standards into their program through daily activities, planning and communication with families.
- Program Emergency Preparedness and Response Cohort: Supports Programs further develop their Emergency Operations Plan and Continuity of Operations Plan, as well as practice the Emergency Response Drills to help them be more equipped for an emergency.
- Staff Qualifications Initiative Cohort : Supports Programs and their staff in navigating the NHCIS Professional Registry, assess individual knowledge and skills using teacher competencies, creating annual professional development plans and applying for individual credentials and/or endorsements through the NH Early Childhood Professional Development System.
- Strengthening Families, Strengthening Care Cohort: Supports Programs in evaluating their current practices around family engagement and incorporating the Protective Factors to enhance their work with the families they serve.
Early Childhood Cohort Applications:
CCAoNH generally has an application period to apply to be a Early Childhood Cohort program. If you are interested in any Cohort options, please rate your interest on the Cohort Application to be considered for future programming. If there is high interest in a Cohorts option, we will be in touch.
There are two versions of the application for this program. Providers only need to choose one of the two options. There is a printable application that can be printed and completed, then scanned and emailed to [email protected] or a fillable application that you can complete right on your computer using Microsoft Word and email it to [email protected].