Child Development Personnel Training Act

Child Development Personnel Training Act - Declares the purpose of this Act to be to respond to the demonstrated need for child development personnel in the 1970's by stimulating the development of sufficient training and educational programs in every State and region of the United States to assure an adequate supply of personnel to meet the staffing requirements of early childhood programs.

Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to, or to enter into contracts with, institutions of higher education, State and local child development agencies, State and local educational agencies, child development programs, private companies and organizations engaged in teacher training, teacher training organization, national child development organizations, and producers of television programing, for the purpose of establishing, developing, or upgrading early childhood personnel training programs which shall include, but shall not be limited to, the development of programs to: (1) provide postgraduate level training for teachers of professional and paraprofessional early childhood personnel and for teachers of teachers of such personnel; (2) attract and recruit personnel, both male and female, to training for and subsequent employment in child development programs; (3) retrain personnel prepared for and/or experienced in education at levels other than early childhood so as to enable them to function effectively in early childhood programs; (4) provide preservice and inservice training of professional and paraprofessional personnel for teaching, management and supervisory, and administrative posts in early childhood programs, including the training and certification of Child Development Associates; (5) help parents and high school students understand and practice sound child development techniques; (6) develop educational television programs and accompanying materials for training early childhood personnel, parents, and high school students in the principles of child development; and (7) develop and refine certification criteria and techniques for professional and paraprofessional early childhood personnel.

Authorizes to be appropriated to carry out this Act $40,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1973, $60,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1974, and $75,000,000 for each of the succeeding fiscal years ending prior to July 1, 1979.