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Training and Professional Development

Child Care Choices offers over 150 high quality workshops per year on topics such as discipline, observation, and child development. Child Care Choices is an Office of Child Care approved training organization (Approval #CKO-30533).  Early care and education professionals receive continued training credit for the workshops we offer.  You may register for a training class in the following ways:

1. By phone-call 301-662-4549 or toll free at 1-800-753-6841  
2. By fax, mail or in person- download, print, and fax our workshop registration form to 301-695-4826.

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We can also bring our quality training to your location.  For more information, call Patty Morison at 301-662-4549.

Other Continued Training Opportunities

The Office of Child Care approved training classes may also be available through the agencies that are listed below. Contact the sponsoring agency for schedule, registration information, and fees. It is your responsibility to make sure that these trainings provide Office of Child Care approved training credits.
 

• American Red Cross: 301-845-6173. First Aid and CPR training.
• APPLES, Inc.: 1-800-924-9188. Child care workshops in the Washington County area.
• Carroll Community College: 410-386-8100. Credit and non-credit courses for child care professionals.
• Child and Adult Care Food Program: Carroll County 410-857-2999 (press 4). Frederick County 301-631-2698. Food and nutrition.
• Child Care Links : 410-288-4900. Child care workshops in Baltimore County.
• Families Plus! : 301-694-9002. Workshops on parenting, child development, and other family-related topics. (Free admission.)
• FMH Wellness Center: 301-698-3563. Infant/child CPR, “Transporting Infants and Children Safely”, and other topics.
• Frederick Community College: 301-846-2559 for early childhood development credit courses; 301-846-2423 for non-credit continuing education courses for child care providers.
• Howard County Child Care Resource Center  : 410-313-1940. Child care workshops in Howard County.
• Maryland Cooperative Extension-Frederick County  : 301-694-1599. Workshops on nutrition education, financial management, and human development.
• Montgomery County Child Care Resource Center : 240-777-3203. Child care workshops in the Montgomery County area.