Early Childhood Workforce Training 2025

Prevention of Shaken Baby Syndrome and Abusive Head Trauma

This training describes causes, symptoms and consequences of Shaken Baby Syndrome/Abusive Head Trauma (SBS/AHT). The lesson further provides information on caring for a crying baby and how to cope with a baby who cries inconsolably.

Click on the title of the course above, then go to "enroll me" and click to begin the course. 

For Technical support, email: campushelp@extension.org 

Instructor email: cpeshlakai@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.

Early Childhood Workforce Training 2025

Transportation Safety

This course presents recommended practices and policies for the safe transport of young children to and from childcare programs.

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

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.

The Effective Extension Program Design, Teaching, and Evaluation Series enables educators to gain practical skills and knowledge that will improve their teaching and increase learner engagement. This six-part series is specifically designed for Extension professionals to create an outcome-based instructional design, a learner-centered teaching plan, and an end-of-event survey. After this series participants will be able to reuse the context-specific templates and guidance to develop future educational programs. 

eLearn Urban Forestry is a self-led, online, distance learning program geared speciifcally toward beginning urban foresters and those allied professionals working in and around urban and urbanizing landscapes, including service foresters, natural resource planners, landscape architects, city officials and public works employees.  The program is comprised of ten learning modules:  The Benefits and Costs of the Urban Forest; Tree Growth and Development; Urban Soils; Site, Tree Selection and Planting; Arboriculture; Assessing and Managing Tree Risk; Tree Disorder Diagnosis and Management; Trees and Construction; Public Policy and Urban Forestry; and Urban Forest Management.

For more information or to enroll, contact Leslie Boby, Southern Regional Extension Forestry, University of Georgia at lboby@sref.info.

This course was created to meet the professional development needs of South Dakota’s and Idaho’s Think Make Create mobile lab communities. However, it is a valuable resource for anyone looking to create a quality STEM learning environment.

Through this course, educators will become more familiar and comfortable with the best practices of STEM programing with a focus on Positive Youth Development.

There is both a long and short version of the course to accommodate different needs.

Equine Herpes Virus provides the participants the opportunity to learn the different ways the EHV-1 virus is expressed in horses, and know how to prevent and treat the disease. This course offers a badge and is one of several available in the HorseQuest Badge Portfolio. This course includes a video, a learning lesson, and a quiz.

The fee for this course is $10.  To purchase and enroll in the course, click the following button:

If you purchase at least $40 worth of courses from this category, you can receive a 20% discount by entering the voucher code of HorseQuest20. 

A course for Extension staff at North Dakota State University, this provides a self-paced guide to evaluating extension programs, materials, and communications.

For more information or to enroll contact robert.bertsch@ndsu.edu

Extension Horses presents an 8 week webinar series to improve the lives of you and your horse. Experts from across the country will present live on Thursday evenings at 7 pm CST/ 8 EST.

Recordings will be uploaded for later viewing.

October 3 - Horse Show Trends - Dr. Kathy Anderson, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

October 10 - Hints for Horse Owners Buying Hay - Dr. Bob Coleman, University of Kentucky

October 17 - Protecting Water Quality - Laura Kenney, MS ,Penn State University

October 24 - Feeding the Senior Horse - Dr. Nettie Liburt, Liburt Nutritional Consulting

October 31 - Supplements, Dr. Carey Williams, Rutgers University

November 7 - Pain in the Equine - Dr. Kris Hiney, Oklahoma State University

November 14 - Social License to Operate - Dr. Colleen Brady, Purdue University

November 21 - Pasture Management - Robyn Stewart, MS, University of Georgia

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.

The audience for this course is:

The Florida Master Gardener Volunteer Training Program prepares potential candidates to assist UF/IFAS County Extension with outreach and educational in the areas of Horticulture, Landscape Management, and Gardening.  Sessions are taught by UF/IFAS Agents and Specialists and will cover challenges that come with living and gardening in the Florida.

Upon Successful completion of this training, participants will be able to:

• Explain the role of UF/IFAS Extension, Extension Agents, and Master Gardeners.
• Define EDIS and search it for reference materials.
• Identify common weeds, invasive plants, and common pest insects
• Distinguish differences between different plant pathogens and common nutrient deficiencies
• List the 9 Principles of Florida Friendly Landscaping™
• Provide 5 major concepts that are needed when planning and designing a landscape or garden.
• Demonstrate proper best practices for plant propagation, tree care, and fruit and Vegetable Gardening
• Synthesize learned material to provide researched based and informed guidance to Extension Clients via verbal or online communication

For more information or to enroll please contact: 

Julio Perez
Commercial and Residential Horticulture Agent I
UF/IFAS Extension Putnam County
pjulio@ufl.edu

Mimi Vreeland
Residential Horticulture Agent I 
UF/IFAS Extension Flagler County
mvreeland@ufl.edu

Forest Engineering 2022

This course encompasses all of the presentations from the 2022 NER.COFE Workshop.  Each topic corresponds to each of the individual presentations and are approved for 0.5 Category 1 Forester Licensing credits by both SAF and the State of Maine.

The cost for each topic is $10.00 which is to cover recording, processing, and online fees, and will continue to support the NER.COFE organization as the in-person workshop does.

Any questions may be forwarded to: 

Ray Berthiaume, NER.COFE Chair, UNH Cooperative Extension Field Specialist, Coos County Forester

Topic 4: Forest Market Update

Speaker: Eric Kingsley-INRS

An update of current forest product markets in the region.