Community Resources

General Resources

Creative Start Studio

The Creative Start Studio has arts integration mini-lessons and resources for early learning educators, teaching artists, families, and caregivers.

Northwest Center Kids IMPACT

Northwest Center Kids is seeking a part-time Pediatric Occupational Therapist to join our highly skilled, collaborative, and innovative multidisciplinary team serving a diverse community. This position provides evaluative, therapeutic, and consultative services to children, birth to three years old, with delays or concerns with motor, feeding, social-emotional, and sensory development, utilizing evidence and a relationship-based lens.

We serve children in their homes, childcare, and community settings in person or via telemedicine. Our providers aim to collaborate with the families we serve, utilizing strengths and a relationship-based approach focused on equity and family priorities. Family capacity to support their child’s development and advocate for their needs is built through reflection, information sharing, and modeling.

To find more information about the listing, please visit our website at: https://app.jobvite.com/j?cj=oQpMzfwk&s=DCYF

Special Olympics Washington

Substitute Pool

The Substitute Pool provides licensed childcare providers access to qualified substitutes for release time. The program supports the continuity of care for children in licensed programs, and ensures staff have access to release time. Provides can use a substitute to attend professional learning on or off-site. To find out more about the substitute pool, eligibility or usage policies contact the Imagine Institute:
Website: imaginewa.org/subpool/
Phone: 206-492-5249
Email: subpool@imaginewa.org

Family Ways

Family Ways is a program supporting pregnant persons, parenting families and children up to age five. All services are culturally relevant, participant-centered, and strengths-based. Our Peer Community Specialists represent the communities we currently serve. This includes: U.S born Black/African American, American Indian/Alaskan Native, and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander.

CHERISH (kindering.org)

CHERISH™ is a program started at Kindering in 2004 that is specifically for children and families involved in the child welfare system. We offer three levels of training (CHERISH 101, 102, and Certification) to ESIT providers across WA. Those interested can learn more/contact us through our website.

Waypoint Early Childhood Consulting

Piloting a new program or practice? Preparing to scale or replicate? Waypoint tailors a launch plan to your organization's unique objectives and program structure, while embedding practices to turn learnings into success and readiness for scale. Holds experience in a range of early learning and clinical settings, as well as cross-program initiatives. Washington-based, woman-owned, and serving nationwide.

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