Training Programs 

T/TH| Aug. 1- Nov. 14, 2024

Do you love children?  The Step Up to Child Care program provides all state requirements to work in child care and puts you on the path to a higher wage or even on the route to opening your own home child care!  In just 16 weeks, participants in this program will earn their CPR/First aid certification, complete mandatory reporter training and the Vermont Orientation Online, build professional and academic skills, complete the Fundamentals for Early Childhood Professionals training, and get job connections in a paid work experience with a local child care provider.  Enrollment is open to residents of Orleans, Essex, and Caledonia counties at no cost to you.  Step Up to Child Care is provided by Northeast Kingdom Learning Services thanks to funding from a federal subrecipient grant: Moving Vermonters Forward. 

Contact Annie Christoni for more information at annie.christoni@neklsvt.org

  This equal opportunity program is paid for in part (55%) by a $1,000,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration. $825,000 (45%) of the project is paid for by non-governmental sources. Auxiliary aids and services are available upon request to individuals with disabilities. 

This course is designed to address and meet the need of continuing education in soft skills and professionalism in the workplace.  This course is meant to develop professional attitudes and to engage students in the exploration of their strengths. It encourages them to make their career and life goals a priority.

The course content consists of two major components: Workplace skills and strengths based character and attitude development. The strength concept at the heart of this course is the one developed by Martin Seligman and Christopher Peterson (2004) and made widely accessible at VIACharacter.orgLinks to an external site.. Research result from the field of Positive Psychology will inform vast segments of this learning experience.

The goal of this course is to help students develop an awareness of their existing character strengths as well as the relationship between workplace and life success and the application of those strengths. Students will learn to differentiate between signature strengths and under- used ones, and they will practice ways to nurture strengths that would be helpful in goal attainment. Students will also practice professional workplace skills and develop a life plan with long and short term goals which allows them to see their current career choice in perspective.

Contact Annie Christoni  for more information at annie.christoni@neklsvt.org