Promoting Caregiving Practices with PITC
Learn the daily essentials of responsive, relationship-based infant and toddler care. These trainings focus on implementing PITC's Six Essential Policies in real-world settings, helping you create nurturing environments where every child thrives through meaningful interactions and individualized care.
Primary Audience:
- In-home care providers
- Family child care providers
- infant and toddler educators
- Home visitors
Secondary Audience:
- Site supervisors
- Educational coordinators
- Resource teachers
Specific Needs & Goals This Category Addresses:
This pathway is designed for professionals who work directly with infants and toddlers daily and want to strengthen their caregiving interactions, implement responsive practices, and create environments that support each child's individual development within a relationship-based framework of care.
PITC's approach to caregiving practice is grounded in over 35 years of research and real-world application. Our training goes beyond theory to provide practical, immediately applicable strategies that transform daily interactions.
- Relationship-Based Foundation: Learn to build secure, responsive relationships that form the cornerstone of healthy development
- Cultural Responsiveness: Develop skills to honor and integrate each family's cultural values and practices into your caregiving approach
- Evidence-Based Practices: Implement proven strategies backed by decades of research in infant and toddler development
- Adult Learning Excellence: Experience PITC's responsive approach to professional development that models the same relationship-based principles you'll use with children
- Practical Application: Gain tools and techniques you can use immediately in your daily practice with concrete examples and scenarios
Participants consistently report transformative changes in their daily practice and deeper satisfaction in their work with infants and toddlers.
You will gain the ability to:
- Create calm, responsive caregiving routines that support children's emotional security and development
- Implement primary caregiving systems that ensure each child has consistent, meaningful relationships
- Recognize and respond appropriately to individual children's cues, temperament, and cultural background
- Design environments that promote exploration, safety, and learning for mixed-age groups
- Partner effectively with families to ensure continuity between home and care settings
Children in your care will experience:
- Increased emotional security and attachment
- Better self-regulation and social skills
- Respect for their individual pace and cultural identity
- More opportunities for meaningful learning through play and exploration
Professional Development Under This Category:
- PITC Online Infant & Toddler Group Care Course
- Essential Policies Implementation (What is the actual name for PITC Modules Training?)
Online Infant & Toddler Group Care Course
PITC Regional Support Network - Training and Coaching
Academy for Family Child Care (FCC) and Family, Friend, and Neighbor (FFN) Providers
The virtual Academy for FCC and FFN is offered every two years, and the next opportunity is spring 2026.
What people are saying...
This experience has reconfirmed my philosophy in care, my confidence, and has allowed me to continue to grow in how I engage and set up my environment. My program is ever changing so I appreciate opportunities to have you [PITC] here and give guidance and support...I value my role in the children and families lives. Thank you for helping me continue to offer support and a space that is welcoming and respectful.
I gained invaluable insights and am eager to apply everything I learned in my role as both a caregiver and teacher. The class was clear, focused, and easy to follow, and I truly enjoyed reading my classmates ideas and shared experiences."