Overview
This eight-course program helps you build real-world skills to work in the childcare industry, showing employers that you’re job-ready upon completion. Learn about child development, how to support young children with diverse abilities, and how to create curriculum for young learners. You’ll also connect with potential employers through engaging in professional field experience.
- Outcomes
- Transfer Pathways
- Explore Careers
With a CCV certificate in childcare you’ll be prepared to:
- Work in a childcare or school setting
- Create a healthy, safe, nurturing learning environment
- Promote inclusion of children with diverse abilities
- Complete an associate degree at CCV through a clear pathway
- Transfer to a partner institution to continue your education
If you choose to complete an associate degree and want to continue your education further, CCV has agreements with other institutions across Vermont and throughout the region to make transferring seamless, easy, and affordable.
Students who graduate from CCV with an early childhood education degree can choose from six transfer pathways into bachelor’s degrees, including 2+2 pathways that guarantee just 60 more credits after earning an associate degree at CCV. Additionally, the Vermont Transfer Guarantee is a partnership that provides guaranteed admission and seamless transfer from CCV to participating Vermont colleges and universities.
For a full list of transfer pathways from CCV’s associate degrees, view the transfer pathways search tool.
Related Programs
CCV programs are stackable, meaning they build on one another as you progress toward your goals. The credits you earn in your childcare certificate can also be applied to an associate degree in early childhood education at CCV. Classes you take in the certificate will apply to your degree program through a clearly mapped pathway.
