Surf these sites: Action On Child Care-Voice For Children -- our vision: quality, affordable child care for every American family. CCAC communicates innovative ideas for improving child care to inspire parents, community leaders and the public to take action, with special emphasis on literacy and universal prekindergarten. Anxious Parents'' Web Site -- Resource for working parents trying to find, and keep, the best childcare for their children. Offering informative articles, book excerpts and links. Ask the Childcare Expert -- have a question about finding good childcare? Taking your sitter on vacation? Ways to make daycare dropoffs easier? Find answers at InteractiveParent.com Building A Better Future for British Columbia''s Kids, A Discussion Paper -- is being released. It outlines the challenges facing child carein British Columbia, Canada.The 24-page document sets out a range of possible child-care programs and the costs and benefits of each one. Canadian Auto Workers Union - Child Care -- working for a National Child Care Program for Canada Carefinder.Com -- an internet child care community Child & Family Canada, Enfant & Famille Canada -- A web site initiated by the Canadian Child Care Federation with the support of Human Resources Development Canada, and Industry Canada. Child Care Action Campaign -- working to improve the quality and increase the quantity of child care so that children can reach their greatest potential and parents can get and keep jobs. Child Care Aware -- Child Care Aware is a nonprofit initiative whose mission is to ensure that every parent has access to good information about finding quality child care and resources in their community, through national consumer marketing and by raising visibility for local child care resource and referral agencies. Child Care Bureau -- The Child Care Bureau is dedicated to enhancing the quality, affordability, and supply of child care available 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 while parents work or participate in education or training. Child Care Connection -- Our site is dedicated to the hardworking daycare providers and center workers who care for the worlds'' children. Child Care Law Center -- Child Care Law Center is a nonprofit legal services agency which provides assistance to legal services attorneys, child care advocates, child care providers, parents and policy makers to overcome the legal impediments to the development of accessible, affordable, quality child care services through: advice and counseling, consultation and referral, litigation, publications, training programs and materials, advocacy support and representation. Child Care Online - Complete Daycare Information Services Homepage -- Child Care Online specializes in providing widely recognized child care/daycare information for parents searching for and for child care educators providing quality child care services. We offer much-needed how-to information on monitoring child care arrangements for safety and continued quality of care. Child Care Resource and Research Unit -- focuses on early childhood care and education research and policy. Its mandate is to advance the idea of a publicly-funded, universally accessible, comprehensive, high quality, not-for-profit system of early childhood care and education in Canada. ChildCareNet of North Idaho -- Information for North Idaho professional child care providers and the parents of the children for whom they care. ChildFun''s Provider Pages -- advice on taxes, curriculum planning for providers, free crafts for daycare, sample contracts, forms, etc. Also, a providers only chat list and message boards! Coalition on Human Needs: Child Care -- status of legislation, background information, and analyses related to child care from the Coalition on Human Needs, a coalition of major U.S. anti-poverty organizations. Daycare Provider''s Beginner Page -- This site has information on daycare, starting a daycare, and daycare products such as software, forms, equipment, supplies, and books Do I Know You-Who''s Watching the Children? -- A parents resource for information pretaining to childcare - babysitter, caregiver, childcare provider, daycare facility, nanny, au pair,etc.. Loaded with checklits,questionaires, and information on how to perform background checks and per-employment checks. Early Childhood Resources -- Links to information about child development, curriculum, parenting For Kid''s Sake -- our mission is to improve the quality of child care by providing parents and providers with useful information. How to Start Your Own Daycare Centre -- Profitable day care centers are much more than glorified babysitting services. Social researchers have found that the most important years in a child''s development are those from one to six. Information By Theme-Child & Family Canada -- Choose the information you need: child care, special needs, media influences,family life, health, safety, literacy, nutrition, play, physical activities, social issues, learning activities and much more Interview Questions -- Questions to ask the babysitter. Manitoba Child Care Association -- (MCCA) is a non-profit, membership-funded, non-partisan organization incorporated in 1974. Our mission is, within a framework of respect for children, families and all with whom we work, to advocate for a quality system of child care, to provide services for our membership, and to advance child care as a profession National Child Care Information Center (U.S.) -- NCCIC provides information and resources on child care. National Network for Child Care -- The NNCC offers a information station, kidcare, person-to-person, conferences, connection newsletters and a catalog. Oregon Employment Department for Child Care -- Child Care Division, Regulations and Information Providers First-Provider Appreciation Day -- Providers First Inc. was founded in 1996 as an organization created to support worldwide recognition of Child Care Providers and the valuable work they perform. Quality Child Care Choices -- Information for parents on how to choose a quality child care setting for their child Resources for Child Care and Early Childhood Education -- Daycare programming ideas, themes, links and recipes for kids Salem Oregon-Child Care Providers Internet Center -- CCPIC is a presence on the Internet offering quick online information to Child Care Providers, allowing them to advertise, further their Education, access needed forms, and offer information and assistance to suit their needs. Service First Training OnLine -- Professional Development Training and Resources for Preschool Administrators and Teachers. Single Parent Central-Child Care -- This site is devoted to information and resouces on obtaining child care including staff/provider ratios, what to look for in daycare, and legislative involvement. The Soho Centre-CHILD/2000 -- The national non profit resource for quality child care Toddler Tables at the Providers'' Place -- A place for day care providers to find information and resources White House Conference on Child Care -- On Thursday, October 23, the President and First Lady hosted the first-ever White House Conference on Child Care. The day-long conference addressed the need that America''s parents have for safe, affordable child care for their children. Millions of Americans, struggling to be both good parents and good workers, rely on child care and after-school programs to care for their children for part of each day. Women''s Contact Society -- Williams Lake Child Care Resource and Referral provides information on how to choose quality child care, Women''s Resource Centre and Interior Women magazine Working to Improve The Quality of Child Care for Madison''s Children -- The main goal of the City Child Care Program is to support and improve high-quality child care in the City of Madison. The City has established high quality standards for child care centers and homes. Certification is voluntary. It is designed to promote the optimal development of the child. Yukon Child Care Association -- The objectives of the society are to work for the development of an expanded improved child care system that is based on the principles of universal accessibility, high quality, affordability, parental involvement and control, provider direction, non-profit operation, and appropriate salaries and working conditions for child care providers
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