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Training & Workshops

Children's Care University offers local programming in multiple fields of studies including residential, educational, medical and managerial courses. We are now offering free parent trainings in both Sioux Falls and Rapid City, SD.  We're a new program to Children's Care, so please visit often to see what courses we will be offering. 

Children's Care is an ACE 2 provider of BACB credit.

UPCOMING COURSES:


 

 

Providing the Necessary Supports While Transporting Students to and from School

Cost: FREE
Date:
Wednesday, August 7th
Registration: 9:00-9:30
Cla
ss: 9:30-11:00 a.m.
Where: Children's Care Hospital & School


Course Description:

This mini symposium will offer bus drivers and bus assistants valuable information related to the safe transportation of students with significant cognitive, physical, and behavioral disabilities.  Participants will gain knowledge on the unique traits of the students they transport each day, as well as how to facilitate interactions to promote student independence and safety.

Topics will include:

  • Interacting with students with significant disabilities.
  • Safely delivering students to their destination.
  • Gaining a better understanding of behavioral issues on the bus.
  • Addressing health issues on the bus.
  • Mandatory Reporters and its impact on you.
  • Questions

Click HERE to register online!

Cancellation Policy: Cancellations made 30 days or more prior to the first day of the workshop require a non-refundable administrative fee of $35.  Cancellations between 7 and 29 days prior to the workshop will be charged a minimum of 50% of the original workshop fee. No refunds will be available for cancellations within one week of the workshop.
Children’s Care reserves the right to cancel or reschedule any workshop.  A workshop may be cancelled that does not meet minimum registration requirements or due to inclement weather.  If Children’s Care cancels a workshop, paid registrants will be given full refunds.  Rescheduled workshop information will be posted at www.cchs.org. In case of inclement weather, please use your own judgment when deciding to travel. Please contact Kristin Cokens, Training Coordinator, at 444-9513 and refund decisions will be made on an individual basis.  

With questions about any of these workshops, please contact Kristin Cokens at training@cchs.org or (605) 444-9513 or (800) 584-9294, Ext. 9513.

The following courses are completed, but you can ask for information or request for future dates by calling (605) 444-9513:

  • Understanding People with ASD: Implications for Intervention
  • Supervision of Staff in Residential Programs 
  • PECS Basic Training -Graduate credits are available through the University of South Dakota.
  • IntelliTools Classroom Suite 4 & IntelliKeys Workshop
  • How to Manage Stress and Prevent Burnout in the Residential Program
  • Using a Behavior Based Approach to Assess & Treat Pediatric Feeding Disorders
  • Feedback & Motivation for Direct Care Staff
  • Go Where You Want to Go: Power Up for Functional Mobility
  • Bowel & Bladder Accidents in Children Over Four
  • Standing and Walking for Children with Gross Motor Dysfunction: Practical Applications of Evidence Based Protocols
  • "If You Can't Breathe, You Can't Function"
  • Using The Principles of Applied Behavior Analysis for Teaching Children with Autism and Developmental Disabilities
  • Technology for Special Education
  • Comprehensive Dysphagia Interventions: The Esophagus, Acid Reflux Disease, Oral Hygiene and Free Water
  • Focusing on Alignment, Fine Tuning & Stance Phase of Gait
  • Pediatrics: Sitting to Standing: Where do we Begin?
  • Evidence-Based Practice in Sensory Processing Disorder: Subtypes, Assessment, Diagnostic Issues and Intervention
  • Boardmaker Studio Workshop
  • Clinical Gait Course - Treatment, Not Theory
  • iPad Workshop
  • Strategies for Picky Eaters
  • Applied Behavior Analysis for Parents
  • Facilitating Language Development in Young Children
  • Back to Sleep, Tummy to Play
  • Solving Complex Pediatric Feeding & Swallowing Issues
  • Strategies for Picky Eaters
  • Facilitating Language Development in Young Children

    Children's Care no longer offers CNA (Certified Nursing Assistant) Training.
"I have learned so much from the kids; how to be more patient, compassionate, and to love unconditionally."
– Kathie G., Support Specialist