Southwest Ohio Regional Training Consortium
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Our Mission

The mission of Southwst Ohio Regional Training Consortium

"The Southwest Ohio Regional Training Consortium is a committee representing public and private child caring agencies in Southwest Ohio and Northern Kentucky which provide care and services for children and families in need. The mission of the consortium is to enhance the quality of care for children and families by providing professional development opportunities for child and youth care providers."
Mission Statement  Rev. 1998

Our Purpose

The purpose of Southwst Ohio Regional Training Consortium

The consortium was created to encourage agencies to share training opportunities amongst themselves to relieve staffing and financial burdens.  As a member agency you are requested to provide training opportunities such as, the Basic Course for Childcare Workers, TCI, TAPS, etc., to other member agencies.  In addition to this, we now try to offer a calendar of reasonably priced workshops for youth/family serving professionals in the mental health field.  Member agencies take turns coordinating these workshops, thus active participation is required.  In an attempt to minimize training costs, we try to utilize qualified trainers from our member agencies.

      Most local government agencies and juvenile centers required services and would support services only from formal organizations with federal recognition as exempt organizations and holding federal tax ID numbers.

      Trainings are provided by professionals in the field of offered training and attendees are awarded Continuing Education Credits for the completion of the classes.  All trainings meet or exceed required content as stated in Ohio provisions to qualify for Continuing Education Credits.

      The Consortium actively recruits non-profit child care organizations to become members on a continuing basis to provide support with trainers and attendees.

      The Consortium also engages in solicitation of non-members to attend offered trainings in an effort to provide low cost Continuing Education Units to social workers, educators, and other child care workers.

      A web-site and physical data base is maintained of local CEU qualified trainings and trainers in the various areas of child care and can be accessed free of charge to members and non-members.  Other sources of child care education are maintained and available to member organizations.

      Trainings are general planned out 6 months to one year in advance with member organizations being informed of all available future trainings.  The trainings provided help social workers and other child care workers and teachers to fulfill annual state CEU requirements.

 

Our History

The history of Southwst Ohio Regional Training Consortium

Southwest Ohio Regional Training Consortium, Inc. is an organization established to provide low cost training to child care workers, social workers, child service providers, teachers, school counselors, and school and child care administrative personnel employed in non-profit and government facilities, schools and agencies.  Southwest Ohio Regional Training Consortium, Inc. is an informal collaborative of service providers offered training on a shared basis since 1992.  The organization decided to become a formal training entity and incorporated on February 13, 2003.  The establishment of a formal non-profit exempt corporation meant better trainers could be contracted to provide training in more areas related to child care at a substantially lower cost to attendees.  The new entity could also apply for state, local and federal grants to help cover the cost of training and child care professionals. 

 
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