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Pennsylvania’s Office of Child Development and Early Learning (OCDEL), has issued a reminder on how to best support children’s special health care needs in child care programs.

Training content and activities are designed to strengthen child care providers’ foundational knowledge of sound fiscal management and business operations.

The Program Quality Assessment team is offering two cohorts of the Business Administration Scale (BAS) Community of Practice Community of Practice (COP) to eligible family child care providers.

The Pennsylvania Key in partnership with OCDEL is planning to offer a Program Administration Scale (PAS) Community of Practice Pilot to eligible child care program directors.

The Pennsylvania Key no longer offers the self-paced Environment Rating Scale (ERS) online courses.

Now that the public health emergency surrounding COVID-19 has expired, states will require eligibility renewals for most receiving Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) for the first time since March 2020.

The Pennsylvania Office of Child Development and Early Learning (OCDEL), Bureau of Early Learning Policy and Professional Development and Bureau of Certification Services have issued that several Announcements for certified child care providers have been rendered obsolete.