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The Provider Services department offers a wide range of services that support and assist child care centers, family child care programs and early childhood professionals. Early childhood training’s, professional development grants, resource library and technical assistance are offered to child care center staff and family child care providers. In addition, support and orientation training’s are provided to individuals who have an interest in starting a family child care business or child care center program. Child Care Resource & Referral (CCR&R) is dedicated to supporting child care professionals.
Benefits to providers listed with CCR&R include:
Available Services
- Training Opportunities Dealing With Topics Related to Early Childhood Care & Education. Some examples: CPR/First Aid, Infant/Toddler training, Curriculum, School Age training, Accreditation information, etc…
- Available to provide a specific training to a child care program through a “training package”. This particular service has an additional fee.
- Scholarships Available: To achieve Early Childhood Credentials, Program Accreditation, College Courses and other Early Childhood professional development opportunities.
- Providers listed on the CCR&R database are eligible to apply for the “Quality Counts Grant”.
- Newsletters and training info provided to family child care providers and child care centers on CCR&R database for free.
- Technical assistance available to providers regarding Early Childhood Care & Education issues/concerns.
- Resource center available to providers on the CCR&R database for free. The resources include written materials and learning kits. These are resources that the providers may check out for a month at a time. The providers will also have access to an accu-cut machine and a laminator. Laminating service does include a fee.
ATTENTION PROVIDERS
The Parent Referral Department will be starting the process of updating provider's information on the NACCRRAware database in October and must be completed by December 23 rd, 2011. Although this is done on a yearly basis, this year is an important year for updates because it is also a Market Rate Survey year. The Market Rate Survey is required by DHS and the information collected helps determine the child care rates that providers are reimbursed through the Child Care Assistance Program.
The rates that providers charge are collected and then categorized based on the type of provider (such as licensed child care center, licensed child care home and licensed child care group home), the child's age, and the county in which care takes place. This is why the accuracy of provider's information on the database is especially important. The completed update form can be mailed or faxed to CCR&R.
You can also call the Parent Referral Department at 815-741-1179 to update your information.
For program update forms please click the link below for your program type:
Complete form for Family Child Care
Complete form for Child Care Center
