Cass Drakeford

facilitating a journey for children, adults & families

Love, Compassion and Understanding

Early Childhood Consulting/Mentoring

Ingenious Mentor and Resourceful

Through Ingenious Mentoring I, Cass Drakeford vow to share knowledge without judgement. Mentoring is based on a comprehensive plan designed to meet the requests of the individual mentee. One to one Early Childcare Education Programming ranging from Startup Ownership, Staffing, Classroom & Curriculum Implementation are just a few categories I am elated to be resourceful.

Childcare Business Startup

Assistance obtaining business name
Assistance obtaining Articles of Incorporated
Assistance obtaining Business EIN (Employee Identification Number) Mentor - Protege’ Correlation

Consultants

Staff of professionals includes qualified teachers and other individuals who are eager to provide safe, enjoyable
learning opportunities. We offer the structure, care and love of learning you want children to experience.

Emergency Preparedness Readiness

Emergency response training focuses on developing the critical skills needed to survive an emergency. Training teaches a range of response procedures including building evacuations, shelter-in-place, and active threat survival.

ITS- SIDS Training

ITS-SIDS gives childcare providers an overview of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, identifies SIDS risk factors and describes ways to reduce the risk of SIDS in child care. SIDS risk reduction messages include: engaging in safe sleep practices for infant/toddlers by placing babies on their back and creating safe sleep environments. Training covers providers and parents as partners to create safe sleep for babies in child care.

Playground Safety

Playground safety training addresses playground safety hazards, playground supervision, maintenance and general upkeep of the outdoor area, and age and developmentally appropriate playground equipment.

Positive Early Childhood Education (PECE)

Emergency response training focuses on developing the critical skills needed to survive an emergency. Training teaches a range of response procedures including building evacuations, shelter-in-place, and active threat survival.

Positive Parenting Program (Triple P)

Triple P is a parenting intervention with the main goals of increasing the knowledge, skills, and confidence of parents and reducing the prevalence of mental health, emotional, and behavioral problems in children and adolescents.

Restorative Practices Circles

Classroom circles support the two main goals of restorative practices: building community; and responding to harm through dialogue that sets things right. Teaching Restorative Practices with Classroom Circles. Restorative conferencing is an approach to addressing wrongdoing in various settings in a variety of ways (O'Connell, Wachtel, & Wachtel, 1999). Conferencing can be employed by schools in response to truancy, disciplinary incidents, including violence, or as a prevention strategy in the form of role plays of conferences with primary and secondary school students.