Professional Development in Early Childhood Studies

Child Development Careers Program

Are you are a current or at any time been a CalWORKs/TANF recipient and interested in a career working with young children? Then the Child Development Careers program is for you.

Benefits of the program include:

• Paid tuition and books
• Child care options and referrals
• Transportation funding
• Career counseling, faculty advising

The Child Development Careers Program has two main purposes:

1. to meet California’s increasing demand for additional high quality child development professionals, and
2. to train Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) recipients for careers in child development by achieving their Associate Teacher or Teacher Permit, providing job placement services and follow-up educational plans that will help them achieve self-sufficiency and escape the cycle of welfare dependency and poverty.

For further information:

Contact Janice Fonteno, Professional Development Coordinator ECS Department, (510) 979-7496 or jfonteno@ohlone.edu.

For eligibility questions:

Contact CalWORKs Coordinator Shawna Luce at (510) 979-7551 or sluce@ohlone.edu.