Regional Resource Center
Leadership efforts in the Hispanic community.
Leadership efforts in the Hispanic community.
Submitted by mzamudio on Fri, 02/03/2012 - 10:29am
Migrant camp visit brings about unexpected discoveries.
A second group member who participated in a migrant camp visit on May 11, 2011 shares her experience and discoveries made as a result of that visit.
Submitted by mzamudio on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 10:42pm
Change and early childhood
Change and early childhood
The Lenawee County Fair 4H clubs focus on quality
The Lenawee County Fair 4H clubs focus on quality. The Lenawee County Fair just ended and I was reminded how important training is even for the youngest children at the fair. The 4H clubs require the children who show pigs at the fair to take a class on Pork Quality Assurance. Children who complete the Pork Quality Assurance class learn how to tell when the pig is sick and how to give a shot if the pig is sick. The children learn how to identify one pig from the other and how to care for their pigs. Simple things like not to keep them outside too long because they
Sowing the seeds of child care training
Sometimes the work around ECIC can feel a bit like being a farmer - the goal is to keep sowing the seed in hopes that something good will grow.
Lately, the seed has been child care training, and I was gratified to see one sprout with Lansing's WILX (Channel 10) featuring a story about the new training requirement for relative and aide child care providers in Michigan. (In case you didn't know, providers have to take a 6-hour health and safety course through one of ECIC's Great Start Regional Child Care Resource Centers or lose their state subsidy.)