Extension Foundation Online Campus
This is a restricted course and only available to participants accepted into the University of Nevada Reno, Extension CDA Training and Coaching Program.
- Teacher: Marybel Arreguin-Lopez
- Teacher: Desiree Cabacar
- Teacher: Savannah Castanon
- Teacher: Maria Jake
- Teacher: Stephanie May
- Teacher: Cathryn Peshlakai
- Teacher: Sarah Wright
This is a restricted course and only available to participants accepted into the University of Nevada Reno, Extension CDA Training and Coaching Program.
- Teacher: Desiree Cabacar
- Teacher: Savannah Castanon
- Teacher: Maria Jake
- Teacher: Janelle Jamero
- Teacher: Cathryn Peshlakai
- Teacher: Erin Skaggs
- Teacher: Shanell Townsend
- Teacher: Rebecca Vizina
- Teacher: Sarah Wright
EC Workforce Training 2025: Safe Practices with Infants and Toddlers
Ensuring the well-being of infants and toddlers requires careful attention to key areas such as nutrition, feeding techniques, and sleep safety. These foundational aspects not only support healthy development but also create a secure environment for young children to thrive.
Course fee: $5.99 1-hour
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For Technical support email: campushelp@extension.org
Instructor email: childcare@unr.edu
** This course is updated annually on January 1st. If you take the course multiple times, the certificate will show the original completion date and cannot be altered.
** The course will be inaccessible during the final two weeks of the year for maintenance. Any unfinished coursework will need to be completed in next year's course.
This training is not designed to run on smart phones, tablets or other small mobile devices.
- Teacher: Cathryn Peshlakai
- Teacher: Lisa Whipple
- Teacher: Sarah Wright
EC Workforce Training 2025 Family Engagement in Early Childhood
This training is designed to guide educators of young children to establish and maintain open and cooperative relationships with each child’s family. The course will focus on effective communication, policies which promote cooperative relationships, and support for families.Topics will include family involvement, conflict with families, conferences and community resources.
Course fee: $5.99 1-hour
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For Technical support email: campushelp@extension.org
Instructor email: childcare@unr.edu
** This course is updated annually on January 1st. If you take the course multiple times, the certificate will show the original completion date and cannot be altered.
** The course will be inaccessible during the final two weeks of the year for maintenance. Any unfinished coursework will need to be completed in next year's course.
This training is not designed to run on smart phones, tablets or other small mobile devices.
- Teacher: Stephanie May
- Teacher: Cathryn Peshlakai
- Teacher: Sarah Wright

This one hour online webinar prepares educators focuses on what educators can expect using the Look Who's Hatching curriculum and how to use of the program's materials. This workshop is required for all Look Who's Hatching participants to complete before receiving their incubator, eggs, and curriculum.
- Teacher: Learning Child
- Teacher: Linda Reddish
- Content Specialists: Holly Hatton-Bowers
- Instructor: Jaclynn Foged
- Instructor: Kelli Knox
- Instructor: Katie Krause
- Instructor: Kim Wellsandt
EC Workforce Training 2025
Wellness: Nutrition and Obesity Prevention in Young Children
Level: Intermediate
As we explore this subject, we’ll focus on the importance of wellness, especially at the intermediate level. Our goal is to equip you with knowledge that can make a lasting impact on children’s health.
Our aim is to empower providers and caregivers to make informed choices for their children. Let’s move forward to uncover these strategies!
Course fee: $10.99 2-hours
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For Technical support email: campushelp@extension.org
Instructor email: childcare@unr.edu
** This course is updated annually on January 1st. If you take the course multiple times, the certificate will show the original completion date and cannot be altered.
** The course will be inaccessible during the final two weeks of the year for maintenance. Any unfinished coursework will need to be completed in next year's course.
This training is not designed to run on smart phones, tablets or other small mobile devices.
- Teacher: Cathryn Peshlakai
- Teacher: Sarah Wright
This is a restricted course which requires an access code.
The CDA Practice Exam has 67 questions including true/false, multiple-choice and scenario questions (with a short narrative and photo).
The Candidate will have up to one hour and forty-five minutes to complete the exam. The only computer-based skill needed to take the Exam is the ability to point and click a mouse.
- Teacher: Marybel Arreguin-Lopez
- Teacher: Desiree Cabacar
- Teacher: Savannah Castanon
- Teacher: Maria Jake
- Teacher: Janelle Jamero
- Teacher: Cathryn Peshlakai
- Teacher: Erin Skaggs
- Teacher: Shanell Townsend
- Teacher: Rebecca Vizina
- Teacher: Sarah Wright
This is a restricted course and available only for enrolled Child Development Associate Students.
- Teacher: Janelle Jamero
- Teacher: Cathryn Peshlakai
- Teacher: Erin Skaggs
- Teacher: Rebecca Vizina
- Teacher: Lisa Whipple
- Teacher: Sarah Wright
This is a restricted course and available only for enrolled Child Development Associate Students.
- Teacher: Janelle Jamero
- Teacher: Cathryn Peshlakai
- Teacher: Erin Skaggs
- Teacher: Rebecca Vizina
- Teacher: Lisa Whipple
- Teacher: Sarah Wright
This is a restricted course and available only for enrolled Child Development Associate Students.
- Teacher: Janelle Jamero
- Teacher: Cathryn Peshlakai
- Teacher: Erin Skaggs
- Teacher: Rebecca Vizina
- Teacher: Lisa Whipple
- Teacher: Sarah Wright
This is a restricted course and available only for enrolled Child Development Associate Students.
- Teacher: Janelle Jamero
- Teacher: Cathryn Peshlakai
- Teacher: Erin Skaggs
- Teacher: Rebecca Vizina
- Teacher: Lisa Whipple
- Teacher: Sarah Wright
This is a restricted course and available only for enrolled Child Development Associate Students.
- Teacher: Janelle Jamero
- Teacher: Cathryn Peshlakai
- Teacher: Erin Skaggs
- Teacher: Rebecca Vizina
- Teacher: Lisa Whipple
- Teacher: Sarah Wright
This is a restricted course and available only for enrolled Child Development Associate Students.
- Teacher: Janelle Jamero
- Teacher: Cathryn Peshlakai
- Teacher: Erin Skaggs
- Teacher: Rebecca Vizina
- Teacher: Lisa Whipple
- Teacher: Sarah Wright
This is a restricted course and available only for enrolled Child Development Associate Students.
- Teacher: Janelle Jamero
- Teacher: Cathryn Peshlakai
- Teacher: Erin Skaggs
- Teacher: Rebecca Vizina
- Teacher: Lisa Whipple
- Teacher: Sarah Wright
This is a restricted course and available only for enrolled Child Development Associate Students.
- Teacher: Janelle Jamero
- Teacher: Cathryn Peshlakai
- Teacher: Erin Skaggs
- Teacher: Rebecca Vizina
- Teacher: Lisa Whipple
- Teacher: Sarah Wright
This is a restricted course and only available to participants accepted into the University of Nevada Reno, Extension CDA Training and Coaching Program.
- Teacher: Desiree Cabacar
- Teacher: Savannah Castanon
- Teacher: Janelle Jamero
- Teacher: Cathryn Peshlakai
- Teacher: Erin Skaggs
- Teacher: Rebecca Vizina
- Teacher: Lisa Whipple
- Teacher: Sarah Wright
- Teacher: Desiree Cabacar
- Teacher: Savannah Castanon
- Teacher: Maria Jake
- Teacher: Cathryn Peshlakai
- Teacher: Shanell Townsend
- Teacher: Lisa Whipple
- Teacher: Sarah Wright
This course is restricted and only available to participants registered in University of Nevada Reno, Extension CDA Program.
- Teacher: Desiree Cabacar
- Teacher: Savannah Castanon
- Teacher: Maria Jake
- Teacher: Cathryn Peshlakai
- Teacher: Shanell Townsend
- Teacher: Lisa Whipple
- Teacher: Sarah Wright
This course is restricted and only available to participants registered in University of Nevada Reno, Extension CDA Program.
- Teacher: Desiree Cabacar
- Teacher: Savannah Castanon
- Teacher: Maria Jake
- Teacher: Cathryn Peshlakai
- Teacher: Shanell Townsend
- Teacher: Lisa Whipple
- Teacher: Sarah Wright
This course is restricted and only available to participants registered in University of Nevada Reno, Extension CDA Program.
- Teacher: Marybel Arreguin-Lopez
- Teacher: Desiree Cabacar
- Teacher: Savannah Castanon
- Teacher: Maria Jake
- Teacher: Cathryn Peshlakai
- Teacher: Shanell Townsend
- Teacher: Lisa Whipple
- Teacher: Sarah Wright
This course is restricted and only available to participants registered in University of Nevada Reno, Extension CDA Program.
- Teacher: Desiree Cabacar
- Teacher: Savannah Castanon
- Teacher: Maria Jake
- Teacher: Cathryn Peshlakai
- Teacher: Shanell Townsend
- Teacher: Lisa Whipple
- Teacher: Sarah Wright
This course is restricted and only available to participants registered in University of Nevada Reno, Extension CDA Program.
- Teacher: Desiree Cabacar
- Teacher: Savannah Castanon
- Teacher: Maria Jake
- Teacher: Cathryn Peshlakai
- Teacher: Shanell Townsend
- Teacher: Lisa Whipple
- Teacher: Sarah Wright
This course is restricted and only available to participants registered in University of Nevada Reno, Extension CDA Program.
- Teacher: Desiree Cabacar
- Teacher: Savannah Castanon
- Teacher: Maria Jake
- Teacher: Robin Marx-Mackerley
- Teacher: Cathryn Peshlakai
- Teacher: Shanell Townsend
- Teacher: Lisa Whipple
- Teacher: Sarah Wright
This course is restricted and only available to participants registered in University of Nevada Reno, Extension CDA Program.
- Teacher: Desiree Cabacar
- Teacher: Savannah Castanon
- Teacher: Maria Jake
- Teacher: Cathryn Peshlakai
- Teacher: Shanell Townsend
- Teacher: Lisa Whipple
- Teacher: Sarah Wright
This four-part, asynchronous learning module was created by the Military Families Learning Network’s Early Intervention team. The interactive course focuses on the rights of young children with disabilities in military families, eligibility for special education programs and services for children with disabilities available within military systems, and strategies to support military families as they navigate these systems in military contexts.
Introduction to Child Development Associate Training
This is a restricted course. Participants must be enrolled the University of Nevada Reno Extension Child Care Excellence Academy
- Teacher: Lori Amian-Gabriel
- Teacher: Marybel Arreguin-Lopez
- Teacher: Jessica Floyd
- Teacher: Maria Jake
- Teacher: Cathryn Peshlakai
- Teacher: Chelsie Shurtleff
- Teacher: Sarah Wright

This is a restricted course available only to students enrolled in the CDA.
- Teacher: Marybel Arreguin-Lopez
- Teacher: Maria Jake
- Teacher: Stephanie May
- Teacher: Cathryn Peshlakai
- Teacher: Sarah Wright
This is a restricted course which requires an access code.
The CDA Practice Exam has 74 question including true/false, multiple-choice and scenario questions (with a short narrative and photo).
The Candidate will have up to one hour and forty-five minutes to complete the exam. The only computer-based skill needed to take the Exam is the ability to point and click a mouse.
- Teacher: Janelle Jamero
- Teacher: Erin Skaggs
- Teacher: Rebecca Vizina
This is a restricted course and available only for enrolled CDA Students.
- Teacher: Marybel Arreguin-Lopez
- Teacher: Maria Jake
- Teacher: Stephanie May
- Teacher: Cathryn Peshlakai
- Teacher: Sarah Wright
Este es un curso restringido y disponible solo para estudiantes inscritos en CDA.

- Teacher: Marybel Arreguin-Lopez
- Teacher: Maria Jake
- Teacher: Stephanie May
- Teacher: Cathryn Peshlakai
- Teacher: Sarah Wright