Child Care Links

Child Care Law Center
http://www.childcarelaw.org
Uses legal tools to foster the development of quality, affordable child care - for every child, every parent, every community. CCLC works to expand child-care options, particularly for low-income families, and to ensure that children are safe and nurtured in care outside the home.

Center for the Child Care Workforce
http://www.ccw.org/home
Works to improve the quality of child-care services by upgrading the wages, benefits, training opportunities and working conditions for child-care teachers and family child-care providers.

The ABC's of Safe and Healthy Child Care
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/hip/abc/abc.htm
Handbook written by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to help child-care providers reduce sickness, injury and other health problems in child-care facilities. The information applies to any child-care provider in any setting, whether in a center or a private home.

Building Child Care
http://www.buildingchildcare.org
A collaborative funded by the California Department of Education designed to help you navigate the process of financing and developing child-care facilities in California.

National Association for Family Child Care
http://www.nafcc.org
Provides technical assistance to family child-care associations. This assistance is provided through developing leadership and professionalism, addressing issues of diversity, and by promoting quality and professionalism through NAFCC's Family Child Care Accreditation.

National Network for Child Care
http://www.nncc.org
Shares knowledge about children and child care from the vast resources of landgrant universities with parents, professionals, practitioners and the general public. NNCC networks with committed individuals around the country to bring you practical information and resources that will be useful in your everyday work with children.

National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care
http://nrc.uchsc.edu
Promotes health and safety in out-of-home child-care settings throughout the nation.

Redleaf National Institute
http://www.redleafinstitute.org
Committed to improving the quality of family child care by helping providers successfully manage their businesses. RNI also offers support to trainers, tax preparers and organizations who assist providers with their business.

Administration for Children and Families: Child Care Bureau
(U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/ccb
Dedicated to enhancing the quality, affordability and availability of child care for all families. The Child Care Bureau administers federal funds to states, territories and tribes to assist low-income families in accessing quality child care for children when the parents work or participate in education or training.

Child and Adult Care Food Program
http://www.fns.usda.gov/cnd/care
Provides nutritious meals to 2.6 million children and 74,000 adults who receive day care outside of their homes.

Child Care Nutrition Resource System
http://www.nal.usda.gov/childcare
Provides you with recipes, resources and information on food safety and preparing nutritious meals. Daycare providers who participate in CACFP and receive reimbursement for meals served will find the information useful.

National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies
http://www.naccrra.net
A network of community-based child-care resource and referral agencies that gives voice to the child-care needs of families and communities. It offers many services to early childhood professionals and public policy makers, including publications, conferences and software.

National Child Care Information Center
http://www.nccic.org
Links information and people to complement, enhance and promote the child-care delivery system, working to ensure that all children and families have access to high-quality comprehensive services.

California Association for the Education of Young Children
http://www.caeyc.org
Works to serve and act on behalf of the needs and rights of young children, with primary focus on the provision of educational services and resources to adults who work with and for children from birth through age 8.

Community Care Licensing
(California Department of Social Services)
http://www.ccld.ca.gov
Promotes the health, safety and quality of life of each person in community care through the administration of an effective collaborative regulatory enforcement system.

California Resource and Referral Network
http://www.rrnetwork.org
Provides leadership and vision for the continuous development and improvement of resource and referral services statewide, helping to build, support and advocate for a quality child-care system that supports the diversity of families and children in every community of California.

Child Care Food Program
(California Department of Education)
http://www.cde.ca.gov/nsd/ccfp
A state and federally funded program that gives financial aid to licensed child-care centers and daycare homes. Objectives are to improve children's diets by providing nutritious, well-balanced meals and develop good eating habits that will last through later years.

Trustline
http://www.trustline.org
A database of nannies and baby-sitters who have cleared criminal background checks in California. The only authorized screening program on in-home caregivers in the state with access to fingerprint records at the California Department of Justice and the FBI. Provides toll-free number to check a provider's background.