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ICP — Institute for Childhood Preparedness

For partners, systems, and community agencies

Training for early childhood partners and systems.

If your team supports more than one classroom, site, provider, or community, ICP can help you bring calm, practical emergency preparedness training to the people you serve.

CCR&Rs Head Start associations Community action agencies Military child development systems
IACET accredited Continuing education designed to meet a recognized standard.
Built for scale From community agencies to statewide, regional, and multi-site systems.
Calm by design Preparedness training without fear tactics or simulated violence.

The audience

This page is for partners, systems, and community agencies.

Some early childhood professionals use "agency" to mean their own employer, such as a community action agency, neighborhood house, or nonprofit provider. Others mean a Child Care Resource and Referral agency, Head Start association, state agency, or regional partner.

ICP works across that whole range. The common thread is simple: you are responsible for helping more people feel prepared, and you need training that is credible, practical, and respectful of early childhood settings.

Who we support

Training partnerships for the groups that reach early childhood programs.

The names can vary by state, funding stream, and community. The work is the same: helping adults care for children with more confidence before, during, and after an emergency.

CCR&R partners

Child Care Resource and Referral agencies

Training support for teams that help providers, directors, and family child care homes across a county, region, or state.

Head Start systems

Head Start and Early Head Start associations

Preparedness training for grantees, associations, leadership teams, and conference audiences serving children and families.

Community agencies

Community action agencies and nonprofit providers

Support for community agencies that operate one program, many classrooms, multiple sites, or a wider family-services network.

Public agencies

State, local, Tribal, and military child development systems

A calm, credible training partner for public-sector programs, military installations, and systems that need consistency at scale.

Multi-site providers

Large child care, YMCA, faith-based, and afterschool networks

Flexible delivery for teams that need the same safety language across many buildings, schedules, and staff roles.

Professional gatherings

Conferences, institutes, and leadership events

Keynotes, breakout sessions, and custom workshops designed for early childhood audiences without fear-based messaging.

How ICP can help

A flexible training partner for work that does not fit neatly into a catalog.

You may already know the topic you need. You may only know the outcome you want. Either way, ICP can help shape the training around your audience and goals.

Regional training initiatives

Bring preparedness training to providers across a community, service area, or statewide network.

Conference and institute sessions

Offer practical, memorable sessions for directors, home visitors, educators, and leadership teams.

Multi-site staff training

Create a consistent preparedness foundation across classrooms, locations, and staff roles.

Custom planning support

Shape training around local risks, grant goals, compliance needs, and the realities of early childhood work.

Partnership process

A simple path from first conversation to training delivery.

Partner and system work usually needs a little more listening up front. That is why ICP starts with your audience, not a prepackaged pitch.

1

Start with the audience

We learn who you serve, what settings are involved, and what the training needs to accomplish.

2

Design the right structure

Together, we choose the topic mix, format, schedule, and delivery model that fits your staff and providers.

3

Deliver calm, practical training

ICP brings early-childhood-specific instruction that is clear, respectful, and grounded in real program operations.

4

Support the follow-through

Participants leave with shared language, practical next steps, and documentation that helps show the impact of the work.

For approvals and planning

Clear language your team can use internally.

Larger training decisions often involve a director, board, funder, procurement office, or leadership team. This page is designed to make ICP's role easy to understand and easy to share.

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IACET Accredited Provider for continuing education.

Training built specifically for early childhood programs and child-serving systems.

Experience with child care centers, Head Start, CCR&Rs, Tribal programs, military child development systems, YMCAs, and afterschool programs.

A no-fear training philosophy: no simulated violence, no surprise drills, and no gotcha moments.

Flexible formats for in-person sessions, live webinars, conference events, and custom workshops.

Trusted across the field

Experience with national partners and early childhood systems.

ICP supports child care centers, Head Start partners, CCR&R agencies, state agencies, military child development centers, early learning coalitions, and large multi-site early childhood systems.

New Jersey Head Start Association
Child Care Aware of Virginia
Louisiana Department of Education
Knoxville Head Start
Knoxville-Knox County Community Action Committee
YMCA
Kansas Head Start Association
Early Learning Coalition of Miami-Dade/Monroe
Child Care Aware of New Jersey
California Children's Academy
Wisconsin Head Start Association
National Association for Family Child Care

Ready to talk

Tell us who you serve. We will help shape the right training plan.

Start with a short intake. ICP will follow up to understand your audience, your goals, and the kind of training support your team needs.