
Parent Aware : Minnesota’s Child Care Quality Rating System
Join us as we learn about Parent Aware from our guest, Katie Hoffman, Director of Quality Improvement at Child Care Aware of Minnesota. We walk through the history, the principles, and the many benef...
31 Aug 202224min

Supporting Breast Feeding in Child Care
Public Health Nurse and owner of MN Child Care Health Consultants, Sarah Hawley, joins us on this episode to share ways early childhood professionals can create a “breastfeeding friendly” child care s...
25 Jul 202221min

Caring for Multi Aged Groups in a Family Child Care Setting
Kim Woehl, one of our CICC Coaches and a former licensed family child care provider, joins this episode. Kim has many useful insights as to how to meet the needs of many different children at various...
25 Jul 202217min

HELP ME GROW MN : HELPING FAMILIES AND HELPING EARLY CHILDHOOD PROFESSIONALS
In this episode, we host Anna Paulson, from Region 11 Help Me Grow as she shares the many ways Help Me Grow MN (HMGMN) supports the healthy development of young children. She highlights the way HMGM...
25 Jul 202219min

Encouraging Healthy Foods and Eating Habits
Inclusion Matters welcomes back our friend Sarah Hawley of Minnesota Child Care Health Consultants to talk about helping children develop healthy eating patterns. Sarah shares ways that early childho...
2 Jun 202227min

Finding Our Calm Supporting One Another During Staffing Shortages
Join us as we welcome Jacy Nylander, CICC Coaching Lead, as we discuss the current state of the field of early childhood. As our field experiences the combination of the pandemic and ongoing social i...
19 Apr 202223min

Safe Supervision: Keeping everyone safe when meltdowns occur
We welcome back Sarah Hawley, RN, BSN, PHN of Minnesota Child Care Health Consultants to discuss the important topic of Active Supervision. The discussion centers around what is meant by Active Super...
24 Mar 202226min

The Center for Disease Control’s (CDC) Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) Network
Our guest Dr. Jennifer Hall-Lande, a lead researcher on the CDC’s ADDM Network, invites us into a helpful discussion related to early care and education. She specializes in research in early identifi...
24 Mar 202223min



















