Child Care Link's Page

These links are for different groups that support child care providers and children's development and well-being.  Hope you enjoy!  :)

 

 

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NACCRRA (since 1987) is the national network of more than 850 child care resource and referral centers (CCR&Rs) located in every state and most communities across the US. CCR&R centers help families, child care providers, and communities find, provide, and plan for affordable, quality child care.

The Mission of the National Child Care Association is to promote the growth and safeguard the interest of quality childhood care and education focusing on licensed, private providers of these services.

NCCA is a professional trade association focused exclusively on the needs of licensed, private childhood care and education programs. As an alliance of care and education professionals and owners, NCCA takes a singular position in the United States as the ONLY organization representing the specific interests of the licensed, private community.

Every licensed private provider in the United States needs to join NCCA to enhance and insure the private sector's role in providing quality childhood care and education. NCCA represents a unified voice in Washington and strives to balance the quality, affordability and availability of licensed child care and education programs. Networking opportunities, professional development programs and money saving programs are all ways YOUR association serves the industry.

History

Since 1987, NCCA has been the only voice of the licensed, private childhood care and education community. Since that time, the association, its staff and leadership, have succeeded in establishing an influential presence for the private sector at national policy and legislative tables.

NCCA is a federation of state associations and as such draws outstanding leadership from across the United States. The five largest child care companies are national members of NCCA in addition to a number of regional companies.

Truly a representative organization, much of NCCA's focus is on insuring opportunities for the private sector in the provision of services including subsidized child care, Head Start, state pre-k programs and professional development opportunities.

In addition, NCCA has taken a leadership role in developing and offering professional development programs which are geared to the needs of the private sector. The association awards the National Administrator Credential (NAC) to successful directors, owners and managers. The NAC is the only national administrators' credential in the United States.

The National Child Care Information Center (NCCIC), a service of the Child Care Bureau, is a national clearinghouse and technical assistance center that links parents, providers, policy-makers, researchers, and the public to early care and education information.

National Network for Child Care offers ...

INFORMATION - an Internet source of over 1000 publications and resources related to child care. Publications are research-based and reviewed.

KIDCARE - an e-mail listserve - providing a way to communicate nationally and internationally with others who care about children and child care.

PERSON-TO-PERSON - support and assistance from experts in child care and child development. Extension staff at each state's land grant university who are working in the area of children and youth are identified.

CONNECTIONS NEWSLETTERS - issued four times a year for family child care, center-based care, and school-age child care.

NNCC unites the expertise of many of the nation's leading universities through the outreach system of Cooperative Extension. Our goal is to share knowledge about children and child care from the vast resources of the landgrant universities with parents, professionals, practitioners, and the general public. We network with committed individuals around the country to bring you practical information and resources that will be useful to you in your everyday work with children.

Cooperative Extension has an 80 year history of working in the areas of child care and early childhood development. Our outreach efforts strongly impact international, national, state, and local efforts. We teach and work in almost every county (approximately 3150) in the US.

National Network for Child Care is supported by the Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and CYFERNet - the Cooperative Extension System's Children, Youth, and Family Network.

The Child Safe Network's mission is to protect our nations most valuable asset, our children!

Their organization is dedicated to educating and preventing missing, and abducted children due to the passing of Megan's Law, convicted sex offenders must register with local police in the communities in which they live. The Child Safe Network provides parents and guardians with the ability to search these databases of convicted sex offenders.  When you join the Network you will be able to search all active databases of registered sex offenders within the states that allow citizens to access such data. 

This is where I, personally, get my kits so I can do each child's fingerprinting.  I keep this information on file for all my child care children.  I even have them for my own children, of course.  You never know anymore.  :( 

This is a search site to help you find child care and other resources.  :)

 

The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) is dedicated to improving the well-being of all young children, with particular focus on the quality of educational and developmental services for all children from birth through age 8. NAEYC is committed to becoming an increasingly high performing and inclusive organization.

Founded in 1926, NAEYC is the world's largest organization working on behalf of young children with nearly 100,000 members, a national network of over 300 local, state, and regional Affiliates, and a growing global alliance of like-minded organizations.

Membership is open to all individuals who share a desire to serve and act on behalf of the needs and rights of all young children.

Child Protection Center provides  services to the public and is funded by grants including United Way, Victims Of Crime Act and Children's Trust Fund.