IF-06022020-01   

COK= HSN/1.5 HOURS

Cost-$25/Person

Purchase the training bundle and get one course for free!

This training session is open to Maryland's early childhood professionals. Join Andrew Roszak, Executive Director of the Institute for Childhood Preparedness for a LIVE ZOOM Training Session!

COVID-19 Coronavirus Online Training For Early Childhood Professionals

Our COVID-19 coronavirus online training for early childhood professionals provides the most up-to-date information about the coronavirus pandemic, and how it pertains to the early childhood community. Our course helps child care professionals respond to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. Course participants will gain the knowledge, resources, and tools to keep providers, staff, parents, and children safe and protected. 

Learning Goals and Objectives:

• Discuss what we know about the coronavirus.
• Identify special considerations and the virus’ effect on young children.
• Describe how to stay safe and prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
• Describe at least two ways we can support each other during the coronavirus pandemic.
• Discuss how to talk to children about the coronavirus.
• Describe considerations regarding your decision to stay open or close.
• Describe how to grocery shop and acquire food safely.
• Identify new coronavirus updates.

Andrew Roszak, JD, MPA, EMT-Paramedic, serves as the executive director for the Institute for Childhood Preparedness, as Chief of Preparedness, Health and Environment for the Region II Head Start Association and as an adjunct professor in the school of community and environmental health at Old Dominion University. For the past six years, he has been working full time on emergency preparedness, response and recovery issues impacting the early childhood sector – child care and family child care programs, afterschool care, Head Start and Early Head Start. Roszak was formerly the Senior Director of Emergency Preparedness at Child Care Aware of America, Senior Public Health Advisor for the US Department of Health and Human Services’ Emergency Care Coordination Center and Senior Director of Environmental Health, Pandemic Preparedness and Catastrophic Response at the National Association of County and City Health Officials, where he worked each day to help prepare communities and the healthcare sector for pandemics and disasters. Roszak began his emergency preparedness career as a firefighter, paramedic and is certified as a hazardous materials technician and in hazardous materials operations. Roszak also served as Health Policy Fellow for the United States Senate Budget and Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committees during the 110th and 111th Congress. Roszak is admitted to practice law in Illinois, the District of Columbia and before the US Supreme Court.