New study confirms Videos for infants have little educational impact

New study confirms research from The Future of Children’s Issue on Children and Electronic Media: Videos for infants have little educational impact.

Read the full blog posting: The Future of Children Blog.

Winter Farmers Market

The Indy Winter Farmers Market opens in a new location this year, The Maxwell, on Saturdays, 9 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. from Nov. 13 - April 30, 2011. This is your one-stop-shop to purchase vegetables, fruit, meat, baked goods, herbs, natural cleaning products and other locally produced food & household products straight from regional farmers. By directly connecting farmers and producers to Indianapolis area residents, the Indy Winter Market supports family farms, preserves farm land and delivers fresh healthy produce to Indianapolis residents.

Healthy Child Care America

Looking to find a child care health consultant or early childhood mental health consultant for your program? Not sure who to contact? With the help of many state representatives, Healthy Child Care America has identified key contacts in each state and has made this information available at www.healthychildcare.org/Contacts.html

Contacts that you will find:

- Child Care Health Consultants

- Early Childhood Mental Health Consultants

- AAP Chapter Child Care Contacts

- CCDF State Administrators

- Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies

- ECCS Coordinators

- Licensing Contacts

- Professional Development Contacts

Not familiar with the role of a child care health consultant? Visit www.healthychildcare.org/WorkWithHP.html for more information.

If you believe the information listed on the state contact Web page of the HCCA Web site is incorrect, please e-mail childcare@aap.org with the correct information.

Feel free to share this information with your colleagues! Don't forget that you can print and disseminate the HCCA flyer from www.healthychildcare.org/ResourcesEECCP.html (first item listed) so others can learn about all that the HCCA Web site has to offer.

Rush Hour Recycling

Green Piece Indy will be hosting a round of rush hour recycling during the month of November.Drive through one of five locations to drop off old electronics and cardboard. Most of our hosts are offering a cup o’ joe just for recycling! Please share the dates with your colleagues and customers.

Each event is from 7 to 9 am:

Nov. 15: Bjava Coffee, 5510 Lafayette Rd
Nov. 16: The Coffee Brake, 6215 Allisonville Rd
Nov. 17: Lazy Daze, 10 S. Johnson Ave
Nov. 18: The Strange Brew, 4800 W Smith Valley Rd
Nov. 19: Earth House Collective, 237 N. East St

Rush Hour Recycling

In celebration of America Recycles Day, Rush Hour Recycling will take place the week of November 15. All Rush Hour Recycling events are from 7 to 9 a.m.

Nov. 15: Bjava Coffee, 5510 Lafayette Rd
Nov. 16: The Coffee Brake, 6215 Allisonville Rd
Nov. 17: Lazy Daze, 10 S. Johnson Ave
Nov. 18: The Strange Brew, 4800 W Smith Valley Rd
Nov. 19: Earth House Collective, 237 N. East St

Acceptable Recycling Items:
Clean, white EPS foam only. Recycle #6. No food containers.
Cardboard and box board (cereal boxes)

Televisions ($10 donation)
Telephone systems
Cellular phones
PC (personal computers)
Laptops
Computers
Monitors (CRTs) complete (no bare CRT tubes)
Mainframe computers
Scanners
Printers
Fax machines
Back-up power supplies systems
Photocopiers
Toner cartridges
Microwaves
VCR’s
Electronic wiring
Power cables
Electronic motors
Metals – Aluminum, Copper, Brass, Nickel.
Integrated Circuits (IC)
Computer mice
Microphones
Laserdisc Players
Computer Keyboards
VCR/DVD Players
Games Systems
Power Supplies
Surge Protectors
Palm Pilots/PDA
Motors
Computer boards
Copiers
Cash Registers
Satellite Components

How to teach Poison Safety to Elementary Aged school children

• Do you teach injury prevention programs for preschool and/or elementary school children?


• Are you looking for a new safety topic?


• Would you like to promote poison safety in your own community

Wednesday, November 24th from 12-3pm.
Who? For people who teach injury prevention programs for preschool and elementary
school children.
How long? 3 hours. Provides poison prevention background for the instructor, how to effectively teach poison safety to children and how to get the safety message home to children.
How much?The workshop is FREE
Where? 1812 N. Capitol, Wile Hall, 3rd Floor, Room W310, Methodist Hospital, Indianapolis

To register, contact
Barbara Cole at
317-962-9248 or
bcole@clarian.org

Foundations Training available online

4C of Southern Indiana is offereing a Foundations Podcast on their website. This is able to be accessed by anyone who logs onto the website. You will need to do the following:

1. Go to http://www.child-care.org/
2. Click on the Podcast option
3. Click on episode 4 Foundations
4. Click on Listen
5. Click on Read for the Educational Review
6. Print and fill out the form and enclose $10
7. Certificate will be mailed after the form has been reviewed

The certificate is good for 1 hour of in-service credit.

Preschoolers and Challenging Behaviors

Register now for the Preschoolers and Challenging Behaviors Class. There are limited spaces available.

The class is November 15th - 18th from 6pm to 9pm. Class will be held at Day Nursery Lilly, 3522 N. Central Ave. Indianapolis, IN 46205.

We will take a look at challenging behaviors in the 3-5 year old classroom. A model of social and emotional competence will be used throughout and many teaching strategies will be shown. Come prepared to learn, listen, share and participate in rethinking challenging behaviors and making children more successful in your child care setting. Participants must commit to all nights and complete required assignments in order to obtain the training certificate and CEU’s. ($60)