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The Pennsylvania Key will offer several courses in November and December that will focus on school-age care professional development.

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The courses – as part of the Pennsylvania Key’s Infant Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation (IECMHC) – cover five topics all having to do with child and youth development, behavior, and emotions.

One course focuses on how youths’ behavior may reflect their big emotions as well as how to manage those emotions. Another involves tools to use for challenging behaviors by children in kindergarten through sixth grade.

The topic of one course is what to expect at each stage of development from kindergarten through sixth grade and how to identify developmentally appropriate milestones, while another discusses the developmental needs of fourth to sixth grade students and how to empower them to have a great after-school experience. There is also a class that focuses on social-emotional standards and how to incorporate them into daily activities. 

All courses include PQAS credits.

The class schedule includes:

• School Age Care Spotlight on Social Emotional Standards: November 6 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. and November 13 from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
• What to Do with Older SAC Kids: November 24 from 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
• SAC Child Development: December 1 from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.
• Introduction to Youth Behavior Reflection Support Tool: December 3 from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
• SAC Youth with Big Emotions: December 4, 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.