Program Objective Code: 5373

Afterschool providers serving school age children 5 years and up through grade 5 must complete: Part I: School Age Child Care Certification and Part II: Foundations of Advancing Youth Development (AYD) Principles.

Part I: School Age Child Care Certification (28 Hours) HEV0803
This course fulfills Part I of II Parts required to complete the 40-Hour School Age Child Care Training mandated by the Department of Children and Families. This course provides training on rules and regulations-center based; identifying and reporting child abuse and neglect; health, safety and nutrition; and school age appropriate practices. This course focuses on how to ensure that children are healthy, safe and happy in their school age programs.

Part I requires that the participant pass a competency exam with a score of 70% or higher given by Department of Children & Families.
Syllabus: School Age Part I


Part II: Foundations of Advancing Youth Development (AYD) Principles HEV0804
This certification fulfills the remaining 12 hours of training required by the state for afterschool providers serving school age children ages 5 and up (through grade 5). This training will introduce afterschool providers to a specialized school age curriculum focusing on the stages of development for children ages 5 and up.

Students are required to successfully pass, with a score of 70 percent or better, the exam for Part II Foundations of Advancing Youth Development (AYD) administered during the last class session.
Syllabus: School Age Part II Foundations of AYD


Scholarships
Prime Time Palm Beach County, Inc. is a non-profit, intermediary organization dedicated to quality school-age afterschool programs. Prime Time offers support to Afterschool Professionals who are presently working in an Afterschool Program. Prime Time offers scholarships to management and frontline professionals employed in an afterschool program working with school-age children. For more information and to apply for a scholarship please visit the Prime Time web site at: www.primetimepbc.org.  You may also contact Nicole Tarsia at (561)732-8066 for further information about the scholorship.

For More Information Contact:
Kimberly Allen
PSAV Coordinator
561.868.4049
allenk@palmbeachstate.edu