21. Michigan Association For Child Care Providers (MACCP) - Home A nonprofit organization that supplies child care providers with information and support and assists parents in finding child care in Michigan. http://www.childcareservices.com/

Our Mission Our primary mission is to help our members deal with the many issues they face as child care providers, including state regulation compliance and business management, so they can do what they do best-care for children. In addition, we provide information related to child care to parents, advocates, and anyone else with an interest in the industry. Our Commitment Whether you're a parent in search of assistance in finding child care, a child care provider looking for information to help you do a better job, an interested supporter of better child care, or one of our members with a question we are here to help you. Our Members Michigan Association for Child Care Providers (MACCP) is a non-profit organization that was established in 1987. We represent over 1,300 licensed child care facilities, both center and home care, of all sizes that provide care for more than 21,000 children in Michigan. Get a Quote for Child Care Centers Get a Quote for In-Home Child Care Interested in receiving updates from MACCP? Sign up for our monthly e-newsletter!

22. Preschool Education Preschool program provides affordable monthly, themebased lesson plans to busy child care providers, parents, and preschool teachers. http://www.littlestrivers.com

23. Parents United For Child Care In addition, PUCC provides startup grants and technical assistance to parents and providers interested in establishing school-aged child care programs. http://www.nccic.org/ccpartnerships/profiles/united.htm

Parents United for Child Care Description In Boston, if children are on the agenda, Parents United for Child Care (PUCC) is at the table. Through PUCC, low- and moderate-income parents have joined together and joined forces with a range of public- and private-sector entities to improve the child care landscape in Boston. PUCC is a member organization that aims to empower parents to effectively advocate for improvements in child care and family policy. Through community organizing and leadership training activities, PUCC helps parents to understand the policy arena, voice their concerns, set priorities, and advocate in a unified and strategic manner. In addition, PUCC provides start-up grants and technical assistance to parents and providers interested in establishing school-aged child care programs. Partners In all aspects of their work, PUCC has engaged in partnerships with key stakeholders to achieve their numerous goals. To move its out-of-school time agenda forward, PUCC works with many partners, including the City of Boston, Boston Public Schools, the Wallace–Reader’s Digest Fund, the National Institute on Out-of-School Time, Americorps, the Community Economic Development Assistance Corporation, Boston School Age Child Care Providers, Kids of All Learning Abilities (KOALA), the Child Care Careers Institute, Arts in Progress, the Museum of Science, and Read Boston. In advocating to increase parents’ access to high-quality affordable child care, PUCC has partnered with more than 70 organizations, including neighborhood-based and citywide organizations, advocacy groups, and service providers. Some of these organizations are members of Parents United for Child Care and have regular and ongoing involvement with PUCC initiatives, while others partner with PUCC on specific initiatives.

24. California Child Care Resource Referral Network Coordinates services that assist local child care resource and referral agencies in providing information and services to parents, service providers, policy makers, and business and community leaders throughout the State. http://www.rrnetwork.org/

25. ODJFS - Child Care In Ohio your choice parents; parents and providers Healthy child care Ohio; How to discuss the current war in Iraq and terror with children http://jfs.ohio.gov/cdc/page5.stm

Our Services Info Center About Us Popular Sites ... Privacy Statement ODJFS - Child Care in Ohio Additional Resources for Parents and Providers Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0 or higher is required to view PDF files on this site. If you do not already have Acrobat 5.0 or higher, you may download it for free The following Child Care Forms and websites are available from this page and have been categorized for convenience. Please click through to go to the section of your choice: Parents Parents and Providers: Healthy Child Care Ohio How to discuss the current war in Iraq and terror with children ... Child Care Links Parents: Parents and Providers: Children's Hospital Websites: Children's Hospital - Columbus Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron Children's Hospital Medical Center - Cincinnati The Children's Medical Center - Dayton ... Toledo Children's Hospital Other Links: Healthy Child Care America Choosing Child Care, A Parent's Guide ODJFS Manuals and Publications Online Child Care Parent/Provider Information Network ... OhioLine - Famlies Providers: Child Care Forms (pdf): List of PBS Stations Child Care convictions Statement Sample Child Observation Form Child's Medical Form ... Type A Home Parent/Employee Information Child Care Links: After-School.com

26. Maryland Committee For Children A statewide network of local child care resource centers (CCRCs) that works with parents, child care providers, advocates, employers, and policymakers to expand and enhance the early childhood education and child care. Overview of programs and services, publications and contacts. http://www.mdchildcare.org/

Maryland Committee for Children works with parents, child care providers, advocates, employers, and policymakers to expand and enhance the early childhood education and child care available to Maryland's children. Many services developed by MCC are now provided by the Maryland Child Care Resource Network, a statewide network of local child care resource centers (CCRCs). Child care services listed throughout the MCC website will refer you to your local CCRC.

27. Minnesota Child Care Resource And Referral Network Of Minnesota Homepage Nonprofit organization offers resources to parent and providers, assists employers who wish to offer child care benefits, conducts research. List of regional member programs, tips for parents, information for providers, countyby-county child care data. http://www.mnchildcare.org/

The Minnesota Child Care Resource and Referral Network provides statewide leadership in shaping collaborations that build a diverse, high quality child care system accessible to all Minnesota families through local child care resource and referral services. The Minnesota Child Care Resource and Referral Network is a member of the National Association of Child Care Resouce and Referral Agencies www.naccrra.net and is funded in part by the The Department Of Human Services To Connect To Your Local Resource and Referral 1-888-291-9811 Are you registered to vote? Yes NO

28. First Links For Parents, Teachers, Child Care Providers And Baby-sitters FirstLinks for parents, Educators, child care providers Baby-sitters. First-School s First Links are a short list of remarkable http://www.first-school.ws/links.html

Home Search First Preschool Themes Popular Themes First Alphabet First Animals First Coloring Pages First Crafts ... Pre-K in Spanish First Sister Sites DLTK's Crafts DLTK-Cards Coloring.ws KidsRCrafty ... KidZone.ws First-Links First-School's First Links are a short list of remarkable links in the Web that offer fun educational content. We encourage you to visit these links that offer educational activities and/or resources for children as young as 18 months old to 100+ - yes, for the young at heart. For additional resources visit First Resources (for educators and child care providers) and First Freebies Sister Sites: Coloring.ws Coloring Pages galore to include in your educational activities, e-cards, games for children, links to freebies and contests, free online puzzles movie of the day. DLTK's Crafts for Kids DLTK's Crafts for Kids features a variety of fun children's crafts, coloring pages and more including projects for holidays, educational themes, printable calendars, customizable cards, and children's favorite cartoon characters. There are lots of printable templates suitable for ages 2 and up.

29. Welcome A community service organization that works with parents, child care providers, businesses, and community organizations to help promote the availability of quality child care services. http://www.gpccrr.org/

Welcome Families Providers Business ... Links Welcome Welcome to Great Plains Child Care Resource and Referral Center! We are a community service organization that works with parents, child care providers, businesses, and community organizations to help promote the availability of quality child care services in the area. We provide parents with child care referrals and information on evaluating quality child care, plus resources on various parenting issues. We offer child care providers access to valuable training and support services for new or established programs. We hope you enjoy the information and resources we offer on our website. Feel free to contact us with any questions or comments. Our office hours are Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. until 5 p.m. Our primary mission is to help achieve a quality child care system accessible to all Southwest Oklahoma families through community-based resource and referral services. Located in Hobart, Oklahoma, Great Plains Child Care Resource and Referral Center has provided services to families and providers since 1999. Our services are focused on the following counties: Beckham, Caddo, Comanche, Cotton, Custer, Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Kiowa, Roger Mills, Stephens, Tillman, Washita.

30. TLC Child Care Locators: Where Parents, Children And Childcare Providers Find Ea Updated 5/17/04, This web site was designed, and is constantly changing, to help give parents and child care providers a place of resources and information. http://www.childcarecenters.org/

Child care locators helps parents, children, and childcare providers find each other. Updated 6/3/04 This web site was designed, and is constantly changing, to help give parents and child care providers a place of resources and information. By providing the child care providers with a Place to advertise , it gives them a chance to tell parents what they have to offer. And by giving parents information Parents Look for the TLC Verified Logo to insure that the provider has been prescreened by TLC Staff. Providers Sign Up NOW - and take advantage of the memberships of the TLC Family! TLC is working to improve our site for Providers and Parents Currently we are working to improve the search quality of our site to make finding child are in your area easier. These changes will take place slowly, as the entire site is maintained and managed by volunteers who do the site work after they do their day job and after they take care of things with their kids etc!!! We trust that you ALL - being parents understand this.

31. TEXANS AGAINST FALSE ALLEGATIONS Organization dedicated to educating and supporting teachers, foster parents, and other child care providers in a fight against a system out of control. http://www.angelfire.com/tx/tafa/

var cm_role = "live" var cm_host = "angelfire.lycos.com" var cm_taxid = "/memberembedded" TEXANS AGAINST FALSE ALLEGATIONS TAFA finds child abuse by any person as totally abhorrent and completely unacceptable under any circumstance nor do we condone abuse of innocent families by the Texas Department of Protective and Regulatory Services or by the police. Sign My Guestbook View My Guestbook TAFA'S PAGES TAFA's Teacher's Page TAFA's Foster Parent's Page Your Rights!!! TAFA's Selective Reading of the Week ... TAFA'S LINKS Email: durango5@gte.net

32. MontanaPBS - Parents And Child Care Providers parents and child care providers. Young Learners Ready To Learn television service is a national effort to improve the school readiness http://www.montanapbs.org/TeachersParents/Providers/

Calendar Parents and Child Care Providers Educators Special Events Search Advanced Search Parents and Child Care Providers Young Learners Ready To Learn television service is a national effort to improve the school readiness of young children through the reach of public broadcasting. Ready To Learn prepares children for success in school. PBS Kids Online , home of your favorite PBS Kids characters with thousands of pages of learning and fun to explore. Play over 100 games, hear your favorite theme songs, read interactive stories, or discover how PBS Kids programs are made in Behind the Scenes. PBS Parents PBS Parents Web site, provided by the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), offers advice and activities for raising a PBS kid. Struggling to Learn is a learning disabilities resource, from the producers of mis understood minds. Tweens (Age 6-12) Its My Life is a safe yet fun online place where tweens can explore a wide variety of topics: from divorce to bullies; from fighting with friends to learning about the dangers of drugs, alcohol, and smoking; from depression and grief to dealing with a younger sibling. Kids can read stories, watch video clips of other kids talking about their feelings and experiences, play games, take quizzes, respond to polls, get advice from older teens and experts, and send in comments and quiestions. It's My Life also features interviews with celebrities about their own tween experiences. Don't Buy It helps kids learn about the modern media marketplace by showing them how to use the same advertising tactics used by Madison Avenue. Using site features, kids can put ads in sneaky places, design cereal boxes, and craft their own ad captions. Stories and quizzes, reveal startling truths about the marketing of junk food and the commercial forces behind the selling of pop music and television. Parody banner ads demonstrate how misleading Web advertising can be.

33. Redirect Nonprofit resource and referral agency, connecting Idaho parents, businesses, and child care providers in Ada, Boise, Elmore and Valley counties. http://www.ets.uidaho.edu/CCC/

ATTENTION The page you are trying to access has permanently moved to: http://www.agls.uidaho.edu/ccc/ Please update your bookmarks, Website links, and printed materials. You will be automatically redirected in 30 seconds. NOTE: Old links based of the URLs below will no longer work after January 1st, 2005. www.its.uidaho.edu www.ets.uidaho.edu www.web.uidaho.edu www.academic.uidaho.edu Please send your Questions or Comments: cti@uidaho.edu

34. ChildCareNet Of North Idaho Information for North Idaho professional child care providers and the parents of the children for whom they care. http://www.nicon.org/childcarenet/

35. H.A.P.P.Y. Homes Online Happy provides support and resources for providers and information and child care referrals for parents. http://happy_homes.tripod.com/

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36. Parenting: Child Care Nutrition and Foods Brought from Home The ABCs of Safe and Healthy child care. parents and childcare providers must know the proper food safety, nutrition and http://www.kidsource.com/kidsource/pages/parenting.childcare.html

Parenting: Child Care advertisement Finding the right childcare for our children is an important and often difficult task. What is right for my child? What do I need to know in selecting childcare? What are my choices? These are only a few of the questions that the following articles address. Our rating system for these Parenting articles is: - Best, in depth and most helpful overall - Very Good, but more specific in focus - Good reference material Are The Children Home Alone? Would you like a checklist of questions to ask and steps to do to ensure the safety and well being of your child who must be home alone? Then this helpful article is for you! Child Care Safety Checklist for Parents and Child Care Providers U.S. Consumer Protection Agency (CPSC) reports have shown that many children have been injured in child care settings. Here's a good checklist to help you to evaluate the safety of a child care situation. Emergency Illness And Injury Procedures When parents enroll their child, they should provide child care provider with the contact information and consent that they will need if there is an emergency involving that child. A sample "Child Care Emergency Contact Information and Consent Form" is included in this section, along with first aid measures one should take under different situations. Emergency Illness And Injury Procedures When parents enroll their child, they should provide child care provider with the contact information and consent that they will need if there is an emergency involving that child. A sample "Child Care Emergency Contact Information and Consent Form" is included in this section, along with first aid measures one should take under different situations.

37. Chesapeake Child Care Resource Center Provides parents with child care referrals and information on evaluating quality child care and offers child care providers access to training and support services for new or established programs. http://www.chesapeakechildcarerr.org/

Chesapeake Child Care Resource Center Welcome For Parents - The LOCATE Complaint Policy For Providers Directions to Our Office at Chesapeake College ... Information about Credentialing Welcome to Chesapeake Child Care Resource Center! We are a community service organization that works with parents, child care providers, businesses, and community organizations to help promote the availability of quality child care services in the area. We provide parents with child care referrals and information on evaluating quality child care, plus resources on various parenting issues. We offer child care providers access to valuable training and support services for new or established programs. We hope you enjoy the information and resources we offer on our website. Feel free to contact us with any questions or comments. Executive Director, Peg Anawalt Telephone: 410-822-5400 ext. 357 Email: manawalt@chesapeake.edu LOCATE Coordinator Kathy Edler LOCATE Hotline: 1-888-406-1453 Telephone: 410-822-5400 ext. 358

38. National Child Care Association Urges Parents To Carefully Screen And Select Chi Licensed child care providers are working to ensure parents are asking the right questions and using the right criteria to select quality care for their http://www.kidsource.com/kidsource/content5/NCCA.child.care.html

National Child Care Association Urges Parents to Carefully Screen and Select Child Care "Week of the Young Child" Offers Time to Revisit Elements of Quality Care advertisement Source National Child Care Association Forums Raising our Kids Related Articles The Survival Guide to School-Age Child Care Tracking Down Quality Child Care Information and news releases furnished by the members of PR Newswire, who are responsible for their fact and content. ATLANTA, April 19, 1999 Ask working parents to name the most important decision they've made about their child's welfare, and one answer will surface time and again: Choosing a quality child care provider. Licensed child care providers are working to ensure parents are asking the right questions and using the right criteria to select quality care for their children. During Week of the Young Child, the National Child Care Association (NCCA) and its member organizations are encouraging the 25 million working parents whose children need care during working hours to carefully review their options when choosing their child care arrangement. Licensing guidelines and regulations ensure that child care programs including center-based care can provide a safe and high-quality environment and better experiences for children. "We believe that Week of the Young Child is a time for everyone concerned about the issue of preschool and child care to reflect on the needs of our young children play and education in a safe, nurturing environment," said Lynn White, NCCA executive director. "Our membership of licensed private child care and preschool centers is committed to educating parents and community leaders about the importance of high-quality, affordable, licensed child care."

39. Find Daycare! - Childcare Seekers OneStop - FREE Childcare Referral For Parents Referrals for parents, free advertising for child care businesses, child care software, products and services available to families, providers and centers. http://www.childcareseekers.com/

imgTag='' document.write (imgTag) SEARCHING FOR CHILDCARE JUST GOT EASIER! Childcare Seekers One Stop is a successful childcare referral corporation providing FREE SERVICE to parents searching for childcare. PARENTS ~ View our On-Line Directories offering detailed information about childcare providers and centers. or Search our Database to find childcare. List your Childcare Business in our Database Here or Place an ad in one of our Directories Find out more ... OWN YOUR OWN BUSINESS ~ Childcare Seekers is looking for individuals who are SERIOUSLY interested in establishing a Childcare Seekers Directory in their community. Find out more... Find Childcare advanced search Find Products/Services Find Classes Find Support Groups ... Find Food Programs Daycare Information Systems Plus+ Complete Daycare Management Software Now Record Keeping is Child's Play FREE Demo! Member of the Small Biz Community VirtualDivas.com

40. Illinois Network Of Child Care Resource & Referral Agencies - Welcome! Illinois CCR Rs work in partnership with parents, business leaders, government officials and child care providers to make high quality child care available to Illinois families. http://www.ilchildcare.org/

@import "../includes/inccrra.css"; About INCCRRA Early Childhood Professionals Glossary The Attention Great START, T.E.A.C.H., Illinois Director Credential, and Illinois Trainers Network participants! A special celebration will be held during October's Illinois AYEC Conference in Peoria to honor you. Check out the News page for more information. - INCCRRA has a position opening for a T.E.A.C.H. Scholarship Counselor, to be based in the Glen Ellyn, Illinois office. For more details, including how to apply, see the Employment page - Would you like to know more about higher education in Illinois for early childhood? Check out the newest "Higher Ed Fast Facts" on the Illinois Early Childhood Career Lattice pages. - Congratualtions to the 16 newest Illinois Director Credential recipients and to Barbara Koval, Lois Malone, and Mary Ann Mobley for advancing to the Level II credential! Quick Links Conferences for Providers Data and Research Find Child Care Now!

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