Nevada County Picayune and Gurdon Times Newspaper Archive

Living Well

Published Wednesday, March 31, 1999 in the Nevada County Picayune

In Arkansas, 63.3 percent of women with children under the age of 6, and 75.1 percent of women with children the aged 6 through 17 are working. Finding good quality, affordable child care is a problem for Arkansas working parents. This is especially true in rural areas.

Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service is helping to ensure that Arkansas children will have care that is top notch.

Extension has developed a series of classes for child care providers that will be available across the state in 1999. These are offered free to help meet the state requirements of ten hours of classes. At the same time, the information from the classes will help ensure that children receive care from well-informed providers.

There are many things that well-informed child care providers need to know. Here are some of these ideas that will be included in classes:

Policies and contracts.
Business and legal documents.
Healthy food preparation for young children.
Nutrition education for young children.
Stress management for providers.
Working with stressed children.
Management and prevention of illness.
Common childhood diseases.
Dealing effectively with emotions.
Conflict in the classroom.

This information and much more will be available during 10 classroom hours of instruction. Child care provider classes will be available all around the state. There will be no charge for the classes.

Pre-registration is required by April 8. Call me at 887-2818 for additional information.

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