Infant Toddler
Specialist Network
Infant Toddler Specialists work with child care professionals (registered family child care providers and child care center staff) to:
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Strengthen the quality of infant and toddler care – to offer a setting that best promotes the healthy development of New Jersey’s youngest children.
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Support age-appropriate activities and approaches to learning and child development
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Offer suggestions and strategies to meet common challenges
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Expand the availability of infant and toddler care in every community
The Infant Toddler Specialist Promise
As your infant and toddler coach and mentor, we promise:
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To guide you through completing and submitting an Infant Toddler Specialist Network (ITSN) ENROLLMENT REQUEST if you are interested
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Guide you through understanding and assessing the quality of your Family Child Care, or Child Care Center Infant/Toddler Environments using FCCERS-3 and/or ITERS-3
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To provide virtual and/or in-person program visits, workshops, and technical assistance customized to the needs of your program and arrange the above at times convenient to the director, staff members, and or family child care provider
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To conduct virtual and/or in-person observations and classroom assessments for your center or care space observations and assessments for you in a respectful, non-intrusive manner
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To share results of observations from the Infant Toddler Environmental or Family Child Care Rating Scale with the program director/provider in a clear, concise, timely, professional, non- judgmental and respectful manner
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To treat all management and staff in a respectful and professional manner
To notify your program 24 hours in advance when applicable, if a visit needs to be rescheduled or canceled
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