Sustainability Cohort for Licensed GOFCC Graduates

 Learn about sustaining your family child care business with fellow family child care owners! Sessions are FREE and will include opportunities to hear from experts who can support you with running your family child care business, network with other family child care providers, and receive trainings that help increase your expertise as an early child educator and caregiver!

Project ACT is seeking applicants to participate in the Sustainability cohort, which will start in February 2026 and will include:

  • Communities of Practice (COP): 5 sessions, 1-hour COPs to provide you with peer and expert support. Sessions will include topics on marketing, participation in different state initiatives, and resources available to Family Child Care business owners. 
  • Training: Participants will earn 5 Core of Knowledge hours that qualify towards their required hours for the year. The training sessions include "ABCD's of Safe Sleep" and "Keys to Inclusion and Behavior Management". 

*You must be a previous GOFCC participant to participate. 

 

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Program Schedule

Please make sure you are available to attend all program events before applying.

  • COP #1 (Virtual): February 11th, 6:30-7:30pm
  • Training Session #1 ABCD's of Safe Sleep (Virtual): February 25th, 6:30-8:30pm
  • COP #2 (Virtual): March 11th, 6:30-7:30pm
  • Training Session #2 Keys to Inclusion and Behavior Management (Virtual): March 25th, 6:30-9:30pm
  • COP #3 (Virtual): April 15th, 6:30-7:30pm
  • COP #4 (Virtual): April 29th, 6:30-7:30pm
  • COP #5 (In-Person at our Towson office location): May 13th, 6:30-8:00pm

 

Participation is free for selected applicants.

Application is closed. You can reach out to Stephanie Cooper at scooper@abilitiesnetwork.org with any questions!

This project is made possible with a grant from Maryland Family Network.