Resources for Careers in Early Childhood

Providing Childcare in Vermont: Requirements, licensing, and training opportunities

• Local job openings
• Child Development Division
• Northern Lights: Early Childhood Professional Development – Amelia Struthers, amelia.struthers@ccv.edu
• Vermont Early Childhood Career Ladder
• Regulations for licensed and registered homes
• Regulations for center based child care programs

Educational Opportunities

• Help navigating requirements:
  • Credit for What You Know
  • Resource Advisor at CCV: Amelia Struthers amelia.struthers@ccv.edu
•  Class locations:
  • Windham Regional Career Center’s Adult Learning (WRCC)
  • Community College of Vermont Brattleboro (CCV) – Leigh Marthe, leigh.marthe@ccv.edu or Zach Young, zach.young@ccv.edu, 802-254-6370
  • Vermont Adult Learning– Catheryn Hayes 802-275-4083; chayes@vtadultlearning.org
  • Keene State – BS in Early Childhood Development

Technical Assistance and Coaching/Mentoring

• Windham Early Childhood Educators Coop – Melissa Mroz-Gaskill – windhamecec@gmail.com
• Let’s Grow Kids – Emily Wagner, emilyw@letsgrowkids.org

Financial Assistance for Education

• Vermont Student Assistance Corporation (VSAC)
• T.E.A.C.H. Early Childhood Vermont/Vermont Association for the Education of Young Children (VAEYC) –  Brenda Schramm, 802.379.7267, brenda.schramm@vaeyc.org

Childcare in Your Home: Opportunities for funding

• Vermont Small Business Development Center (SBDC) at Brattleboro Development Credit Corporation (BDCC) – Debra Boudrieau, 802-257-7731 or dboudrieau@vtsbdc.org
• Make Way for Kids fund, Emily Wagner, emilyw@letsgrowkids.org
• Vermont Community Loan Fund

Training and Support

• Voc Rehab / Creative Workforce Solutions – Shawn Garland – sgarland@vabir.org 802-430-4380

Job Opportunities

• Let’s Grow Kids