Certificate in Program and Community Partnerships in Early Childhood Education

In early childhood education, strong family and community connections help young children grow and thrive. Earning a Program and Community Partnerships in Early Childhood Education certificate at the University of Central Missouri allows you to build on your knowledge of family and community relations to improve programs at your school or child care center. A pathway to state teacher certification, this undergraduate certificate allows you to earn credits toward a bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Education (ECE) at UCM. The Program and Community Partnerships certificate will help you better understand how to collaborate with families and communities and the important role we all make in the lives of young children.

All undergraduate students are required to upload unofficial transcripts to their student portal (created upon application submission) and submit official transcripts to our office. These transcripts will be used for advisement purposes. Students must have a 2.0 high school GPA or above to be admissible. If the applicant has taken undergraduate coursework the cumulative GPA of the undergraduate coursework must be a 2.0 or higher to be admissible.