Imagine a world where you could call one number and reach someone who spoke your language and comes from your community, who could take you step-by-step through your ECE career qualifications, meetings, and register you for the training and services to reach your goals.
Imagine a world where someone cared about your career, checked in with you on your progress, and gave you moral support through the job seeking process.
Imagine, as a new ECE professional, receiving on-demand or onsite preservice training at no cost.
Welcome to the Shared Services Employee Portal where you can find sample resumes, cover letters, resources, and have access to skilled HR professionals to review your application materials.
Become a licensed family child care provider!
While a career educating and caring for children is incredibly rewarding, the process of becoming a licensed family child care provider is often intimidating. Because of this, the Imagine Institute has created Imagine U, a program designed to help individuals as they prepare to open a licensed child care business.
Be part of the movement to increase access to warm, supportive, and quality child care to Washington’s children.
The Early Care and Education Substitute Pool is a program designed to provide substitute relief to all licensed facilities in Washington State. The Imagine lnstitute’s substitute pool provides an opportunity to work in WA State licensed family child care facilities where you will:
State-approved trainers provide ongoing learning opportunities that support the mastery of core competencies, introduction of instructional strategies, and foundational concepts in child and youth development and program administration. State-approved trainers may provide workshops, host online trainings, facilitate professional learning communities that will count toward the training requirements for licensed child care professionals.
Our ECE Community Job Board is a FREE tool for Licensed providers and facilities to post current openings in their child care. Members of the ECE Community can also use it to find job openings, searching by position, employment type, city, or state.
The Imagine Institute believes in grassroots professional development that works for those working in early learning.