Early Learning Resources

Pathways to increasing your Step level in Oregon's Early Learning System

Checklist to make sure the trainings you are submitting to ORO (Oregon Registry Online) count for step increases

Definitions of Core Knowledge Categories

The Oregon Registry Online (ORO) is a database that stores training and education for Oregon’s childhood care and education professionals. ORO helps you meet system requirements such as Office of Child Care licensing needs and Department of Human Services Enhanced Rate Program eligibility. You may also use ORO to produce an official record of your training and education, called a Professional Development Statement. You need to BOTH register for an account, AND send in a Step Application with your training certificates. Every time you have enough training hours in the correct Core Knowledge Categories, you must submit a new Step Application to advance to the next step level. It will not happen automatically.

https://my.oregonregistryonline.org/

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YFff0lHy9C2qAp9s0E5NbDI_SWwzmZ13/view

OCCD administers two scholarship programs that support the professional development of Oregon’s childhood care and education professionals: the Betty Gray Early Childhood Scholarship Program and Oregon’s Family Child Care Scholarship Program.