CHILD CARE RESOURCES
ARTICLES/INFORMATION/RESEARCH
(click here for Organizations/Agencies)
Criminals Profit From Iowa Daycare System
Quad-City Times, February 10, 2002
Daycare Provider's Home Page
For child care providers, also includes tips for parents on selecting quality care, mailing list, health and safety info, activity ideas, info on preschool and school-age child development, special-needs children and medical info.
Daycare.com's State Licensing Standards
State by state listing of licensing standards for home-based child care.
Estimating the Size and Characteristics of the U.S. Child Care Workforce
Report from the Center for the Child Care Workforce (CCW) and the Human Services Policy Center (HSPC) at the University of Washington available as a PDF download.
New Laws Designed to Protect Children, Elderly From Abuse
The Telegraph, July 23, 2001
Newsday's Day Care Investigation
Newsday, 1999
Regulators Want New Way of Counting Children in Day Care
The Kansas City Star, July 7, 2002
States Lacking in SIDS Precautions in Day Care
The Associated Press, May 7, 2001
Sudden Infant Death Risks Higher in Day Care Setting
CNN, August 7, 2000
ORGANIZATIONS/AGENCIES
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Child Care Bureau
U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services
Administration for Children, Youth, and Families
Switizer Building, Room 2046
330 "C" Street, S.W.
Washington, DC 20447
Phone: (202) 690-6782
www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/ccb/
Childcare Resource Unit of Canada
Centre for Urban & Community Studies
University of Toronto
455 Spadina Avenue, Room 305
Toronto, Ontario, CANADA M5S 2G8
Phone: (416) 978-6895
www.childcarecanada.org
Child Welfare League of America
440 First Street, N.W., 3rd Floor
Washington, DC 20001-2085
Phone: (202) 638-2952
www.cwla.org/programs/daycare/
Children's Defense Fund
25 "E" Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20001
Phone: (202) 628-8787
www.childrensdefense.org/earlychildhood/childcare/
Fact Sheets, guidelines for parents, information on the Head Start, Fair Start, and Healthy Start programs.
National Child Care Information Center
243 Church Street, N.W., 2nd Floor
Vienna, VA 22180
Toll-free: 1-800-616-2242
TTY: 1-800-516-2242
www.nccic.org
Health and safety info, child development info, sections on infant and toddler care, after-school care, tribal and reservation child care resources, how to choose quality care, Child Care
Bulletin, state-by-state list of child care regulatory organizations, information clearinghouse. [see also: Tribal Child Care Technical Assistance Center (TriTAC)]
National Network for Child Care
Iowa State University Extension
56 LeBaron Hall
Ames, IA 50011
Phone: (515) 294-5906
www.nncc.org
NNCC is supported by the Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and CYFERNet (Cooperative Extension System's Children, Youth, and Family Network). Site offers internet source of over 1000 research-based, reviewed publications and resources related to child care; KIDCARE - an e-list providing a way to communicate nationally and internationally with others who care about children and child care; support and assistance from experts in child care and child development by Extension staff at each state's land grant university working in the area of children and youth; and CONNECTIONS newsletters, issued quarterly for family child care, center-based care, and school-age child care.
National Resource Center for Health & Safety in Child Care
UCHSC at Fitzsimons
Campus Mail Stop F541; PO Box 6508
Aurora, CO 80045-0508
Toll-free: 1-800-598-5437
nrc.uchsc.edu
Full text of National Health and Safety Performance Standards for Child Care, tips and guidelines on finding affordable, quality care, state-by-state licensing requirements, sections for special-needs children, military child care, training materials, links to other resources.
YMCA of the USA
101 N. Wacker Drive
Chicago, IL 60606
Phone: (312) 977-0031
www.ymca.net/programs/childcare/ccmenu.htm
Information on the YMCA of the USA's child care programs.
