Kennebec Valley Community College spearheading efforts to give COVID-19 training to child care providers
The course will teach providers core skills on how to safely operate child care facilities as the COVID-19 pandemic continues.
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FAIRFIELD Kennebec Valley Community College officials said Wednesday they’re launching a new online course for child care providers to help keep children and families safe as the coronavirus pandemic continues a year later.
The Childcare Provider Foundations course aims to teach safe practices and procedures, in collaboration with Kennebec Valley Community Action Program, Educare, Maine Department of Health & Human Services and Maine Roads to Quality. KVCC is spearheading the development of training that will provide knowledge of foundational practice necessary in response to COVID-19.
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Free curbside dinner offered in Pittsfield
Event will be held by KVCAP’s Family Enrichment Council Somerset and community partners.
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Kennebec Valley Community Action Program’s Family Enrichment Council Somerset, joined by its community partners HealthySV, Pittsfield Maine Police Department and Greater Pittsfield Area Kiwanis, will offer a free curbside chop suey dinner from 5 to 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 25, at the Sebasticook Valley Elks at 140 Middle St., in Pittsfield.
To order meals, call 207-859-2520 or email at [email protected]; delivery services are available.
With so much economic upheaval caused by the pandemic, some community organizations in Maine are reporting that they’ve received far more applications for
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Gabriel McCarthy, 4, hugs his mother Carolyn Courtney on Tuesday as he and twin brother Cormac, far left, are dropped off at Bouncing Bubbles Child Care in Skowhegan. Rich Abrahamson/Morning Sentinel
When Carolyn Courtney decided to put her twins, Cormac and Gabriel, into a child care program in the spring of 2017, the process of finding a provider proved to be difficult.
She was not sure at first whether she should send them to a facility near her home in Mount Vernon, or closer to her job in Skowhegan. She ultimately decided to take them with her to Skowhegan after struggling to find a place that had the capacity to take the brothers, who are now 4 years old.