Professionals interested in becoming child care health consultant trainers can now take a continuing education course offered by the National Training Institute for Child Care Health Consultants (NTI). The course is held on-site in Chapel Hill, N.C., and includes a distance learning component using Blackboard.  Qualifications to participate include:

• must be an active child health, child care, and/or early childhood education professional.
• must have recent experience in or with out-of-home child care .
• Should work as part of a system, either public or private, with the potential for supporting a child care health consultant training program on a regional, state or local level.
• must have experience in face-to-face training of child health, child care, or early childhood education professionals.

NTI is a cooperative undertaking of the School of Public Health's Department of Maternal and Child Health and the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  NTI is funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau of the Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.  For more information about the program, visit www.sph.unc.edu/courses/childcare.