Western New York Family Care Consortium (WNYFCC)

The WNY Family Care Consortium provides affordable training to child care providers, day care center staff, and family child care professionals to enhance the quality of child care programs in the local community.

Membership in Provider Networks
Becoming a participating provider in the WNY Family Care Consortium program network is EASY!

The Synergy Group invites you to join the 200 providers already participating in Just Around the Corner … a unique program serving 6,000 working families.

Just Around the Corner offers workers from the WNY Family Care Consortium member companies special deals and cost savings at participating regulated childcare homes and centers located in their own neighborhoods.

Participation as a Just Around the Corner provider will benefit your program through marketing exposure to the WNYFCC workforce. Your program will be advertised, at no cost to you, in a directory distributed to WNYFCC employees throughout the year so that families can make childcare arrangements at a Just Around the Corner location.

Participating providers and childcare staff are also invited to attend a variety of interactive training workshops offered in Western New York throughout the year. Or, if attendance at those workshops is inconvenient for you, you can enhance your professional development through our affordable independent learning modules. You can take advantage of these discounts immediately. Register as a participating J.A.C. provider, and you are automatically eligible for level 2 fees.

There are three levels of fees for training workshops and independent study modules. Your fee is determined by your program’s status in the Just Around the Corner (JAC) network program.

It is FREE to be part of the JAC network. We just ask that you extend some level of special consideration to WNYFCC families who enroll children in your program. You decide on the special value or discount. Our provider registration form gives you lots of choices. When you sign up for JAC, you automatically move to Level 2 in the fee structure – a huge savings for you and your staff!

Payment due prior to workshop date, or must accompany independent study module homework submitted for review. A certificate will not be issued without payment. Payment must be made by check or money order, payable to The Synergy Group.

Because WNYFCC employees live in communities all across the region, we would like to include YOU on the list of Just Around the Corner providers. It’s simple! You offer WNYFCC employees special cost savings as an incentive to enroll in your program - waived registration fees, tuition discounts on full- or part-time care, free days - the level of consideration is entirely up to you. Your enrollment may grow and you get FREE advertising and affordable training options! It’s a win-win situation for everyone!

To become a member in Just Around the Corner, call (716) 639-8500. Signing up is easy!

As a participating provider, we’ll be in touch with you by phone, fax, and e-mail. We will send you information regarding WNYFCC employee eligibility, ask you to let us know if Consortium families are using your program, inform you of upcoming training opportunities, and more!

[For information on the Just Around the Corner Provider Network,
Please Click Here]

**Administered by The Synergy Group on behalf of these sponsors, the unions and businesses of the WNY Family Care Consortium: DuPont, American Axle & Manufacturing, Delphi Thermal Systems, General Motors, and the UAW.

------------------------2007 Training Workshops---------------------------

If you are a participating child care provider in the Just Around the Corner network, you can attend these training workshops at a discounted cost.

Communication: The Art of Giving Feedback
Monday, January 22nd

Developing Responsibility and Independence:
Skills You Can Teach Children
Monday, February 12th

Transitions: Tips for Turning Rough into Smooth
Monday, March 5th

Starting Small:
Teaching Young Children About Peace, Equity and Justice
Monday, April 16th

Dealing with Biting Behaviors & Young Children
Monday, May 14th

An Introduction to Project Approach
Monday, October 15th

Fostering Emotional Literacy in Young Children:
Teaching Children About Feelings
Monday, November 5th

Register by phone with The Synergy Group at 716.639.0717 or online. You will receive confirmation of your registration once the workshop fee is received.

Since space is limited, individuals my register for a maximum of 3 workshops. Be sure to mark your calendars with selected workshop dates! We will confirm your attendance one week prior.

If you are a participating child care provider in one of the Just Around the Corner networks, you can request these independent learning modules for as little as $5.00, depending on participation level.

Request your first module by calling (716) 639-8500 or by clicking on the link below.

Read and do the “homework”. Send it in for review along with payment and your certificate will arrive in the mail. Upon completion of one, we’ll gladly send you another!

Communication: The Art of Giving Feedback
Training objectives:
1. Define “feedback” and recognize its usefulness.
2. Clarify why it’s challenging to give feedback at work and personal life.
3. Differentiate between effective and ineffective feedback. 4. Learn how to give valuable feedback.

NYSOCFS 418-1.14 a(4) safety and security procedures, including communication between parents and staff

Developing Responsibility and Independence: Skills You Can Teach Children
Training objectives:
1. Define responsibility and independence.
2.Identify areas of responsibility, including task management and social responsiveness.
3. Learn how to apply the seven “R’s” of responsibility
4. Strategize techniques for removing the barriers to responsible behavior.
5. Increase confidence in ability to impact children’s development as responsible and independent people.

NYSOCFS 418-1.14 a(1) principles of childhood development, including the appropriate supervision of children, meeting the needs of children enrolled in the program with physical or emotional challenges and behavior management and discipline

Transitions: Tips for Turning Rough into Smooth
Training objectives:
1. Identify challenges of transition times during the early
childhood program day.
2. Learn strategies for making transitions between activities, lunch, nap, drop off and pick up times, etc. go more smoothly for everyone.

Dealing with Biting Behaviors & Young Children
Training objectives:
1. Identify reasons why young children bite.
2. Learn strategies for what to do when biting occurs.
3. Learn how to communicate with families when their child has been bitten or is biting.

An Introduction to the Project Approach
Training objectives:
1. Understand benefits of teaching using the Project Approach.
2. Review classroom setup, techniques, and practices which support the Project Approach.
3. Learn about the phases of the Project Approach.
4. Define the roles of the teacher, the children, and families in the Project Approach.

Fostering Emotional Literacy in Young Children: Teaching Children About Feelings
Training objectives:
1. Define emotional literacy and discuss its importance in young children’s healthy development.
2. Learn what teachers can do to support children’s abilities to identify, understand, and express emotions in a healthy way.
3. Share ideas for incorporating emotional literacy activities into the early childhood classroom.