Resource Links

Center for Child Care Workforce

Educate…
and care for our children.
Advocate…
for quality, affordable early care and education programs for all children.
Compensate…
early care and education professionals for the important work they do every day.
http://www.ccw.org/

Children’s Defense Fund

The Children's Defense Fund Action Council™ mission is to Leave No Child Behind and to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start, and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities.
http://www.cdfactioncouncil.org/about.asp

National Child Care Information Center

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.
http://www.nccic.org/

Parent Central

Join Parent Central and get connected to information and resources, and become part of a growing network of concerned parents. If you have a child under age 8, you don’t want to miss this opportunity. Sign up to receive Parent Central Express, the monthly newsletter chock full of tips for parents, activities, and ways to get connected in your community. You can also sign up for age-specific and topic-specific information, and sign up to be alerted about opportunities to voice your concerns to decision-makers.
http://family/search_care.php.parentsaction.org/family/search_care.php/home.html

The National After School Association

The National AfterSchool Association, formerly the National School-Age Care Alliance, was founded in 1987. We are a professional association with a membership component-our membership includes more than 7,000 practitioners, policy makers, and administrators representing all public, private, and community-based sectors of after-school and out-of-school time programs, as well as school-age and after-school programs on military bases, both domestic and international. As the leading voice of the after-school profession, we are dedicated to the development, education, and care of children and youth during their out-of-school hours.
http://www.naaweb.org/about.htm

The National Association for Family Child Care

Your Home.
What began years ago as an informal approach to providing child care as a way to support working parents, family child care providers today are making an intentional career choice to offer quality early care and education in their homes.

Your Profession.
NAFCC is dedicated to strengthening the profession of family child care by promoting high quality, professional early care and education and strengthening communities where providers live and work.

Our Commitment.
NAFCC is dedicated to advocating for the family child care profession by collaborating with other local, state, and national organizations who contribute to the family child care field to increase awareness about and improve the quality of family child care.
http://www.nafcc.org/include/default.asp

The National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies (NACCRRA)

NACCRRA 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.
http://www.naccrra.org/

The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)

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.
http://www.naeyc.org/default.asp