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Tribal Child Care Association of California

Workforce Pathways

2023/2024 TCCAC Workforce Pathways Program

(July 1, 2024-June 30, 2025)

With funding provided through CDSS’s QCC Workforce Grant, The Tribal Child Care Association of California (TCCAC) has developed a workforce program to support child care providers in all settings. This program provides teachers in centers, providers with family friend and neighbor programs, aunts and grandmas operating relative care programs, everyone who is dedicated to caring for Tribal children in California an opportunity to further develop their skills in culturally relevant ways.

TCCAC will support participants by identifying and overcoming barriers to reaching goals through financial supports, identifying resources and incentivizing goal completion with a stipend program.

Workforce Requirements:

  • You must be a current child care provider for children in Tribal Early Learning and Care Programs age 0-5 years.
    Employment verification is required.
  • iPinwheel Application Deadline: December 31, 2024
  • Register a new account: https://tccac.ipinwheel.org/StaffApplication/Account/Register
  • You do not need to re-register on iPinwheel if you participated in the 22/23 Workforce Year, but you must notify your Workforce Advisor that you want to participate again and schedule your PD Plan Meeting.
  • Stipends provided for all courses/ trainings completed between July 1, 2024 –June 15, 2025.
  • Each participant will work with the Workforce Advisor to set goals and identify resources needed. You must meet with your Workforce Advisor to create a Professional Development Plan to receive your stipend.
  • There may be a cap on stipend totals. Potential earning bonuses available dependent on program participation
    and availability of funds.
  • Stipends will be paid out in November 2025.

TCCAC Higher Education:

TCCAC wants to ensure participants are supported to meet their higher education goals. Participants working towards Teacher Certification, Associates Degree, Bachelor’s Degree, or Master’s Degree with an emphasis on Early Learning and Care will receive stipends upon completion.

TCCAC can support with books, materials, and other expenses related to reaching your higher education goals.

The Workforce Advisor will assist with goal setting and identifying needed supports.

For more information on our TCCAC Workforce Pathways Program, including the application process,
contact Sara Zapata at
workforce@tribalchildcareca.org
530-515-7206

TCCAC Higher Education Pathway 

Through our Higher Education Pathway,  TCCAC wants to ensure our participants are supported to meet their higher education goals. Participants for this pathway are working towards Certification, Associates Degrees, Bachelor’s Degrees, or higher with an emphasis on Early Learning and Care. TCCAC can support with tuition costs,  books, materials and any other expense related to obtaining your higher education goals. The TCCAC Workforce Advisor will  work with each participant to set goals and identify needed supports. TCCAC will  incentive goal completion based on the participant’s professional development plan. The incentive structure for higher education is as follows: 

TCCAC Professional Development Pathway 

TCCAC has created these custom pathways to support professional development for Tribal Child Care providers. Each of the six pathways have options for which trainings the participant would like to complete based their individualized professional development plan. The pathways include:

  • The Journey Toward Healing This pathway focuses on healing and resiliency by addressing topics around trauma faced by children, families, providers, and communities. The Journey Toward Healing conversations videos and materials created through the partnership with Brazelton Touchpoints Center will be the foundation for this pathway. These are self paced modules on the Coaching Companion platform.
  • Tribal Child Care Health and Safety Standards and Best Practices This pathway focuses on basic health and safety standards required for Tribal Child Care programs, as well as ways to go beyond the basics with best practices. Participants can choose topics that are most relevant for them and their programs. The TCCAC Health and Safety Manual will be the foundation for this pathway. These are self-paced modules on the Coaching Companion platform.
  • Coaching Companion A yearlong collaboration where teachers/providers and coaches come together in reflective dialogue as they look at improving their practice through the use of evidence based resources using Coaching Companion’s vast catalogue of training cycles.
  • Family Enagement- Parent Cafes– TCCAC has partnered with the Child Care Resource Center to create this pathway for those wanting to increase their skills for engaging families and host parent cafes in their communities. These trainings can be done virtually or a combination of in person and virtual.
  • Nature Explore TCCAC has partnered with Nature Explore to offer a
    variety of engaging, inspiring, research-based workshops to support
    comprehensive learning with nature. This pathway is a four session series that will engage participants in Nature Explore’s interactive virtual and in person workshops, hands-on activities, conversation, reflection and more.