Emergency Preparedness & Response in Child Care

Trainer: Tara Knight and Ashlyn Wadsworth, Child Care Health Consultants, Gaston County Department of Health and Human Services. For questions: [email protected] or [email protected].

DCDEE Contact Hours: 2.5

Location Details: Training will be hosted in the Community Classroom at the Gaston County Health Department, 991 West Hudson Boulevard, Gastonia, NC 28052.

Park and enter at the front entrance (off of Hudson Blvd., not Henderson Street)

Enter through the front entrance sliding doors and turn right. Trainings will be hosted in the first room on the right.

Training provides early educators with information and tools to prepare for many types of emergencies. EPR addresses NC Child Care Rules on emergency preparedness, current best practice recommendations, and guidance on completing the online EPR Plan. The goal of EPR training for early educators is to provide early educators with the information, knowledge, and tools to prepare them for many types of emergencies and to complete and submit the EPR plan for their facility.

Host or Publisher Partnership for Children of Lincoln & Gaston Counties