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Provides various support services to families with children. Services include information and referrals related to raising children, testing for children who may shows signs of delay, along with parent skills classes and parent/child groups. Training and professional development opportunities for child care providers on all aspects of early childhood development, early care and learning.

Provides information and referrals to parents or guardians looking for child care agencies within Dutchess or Putnam county.

Provides referrals for working parents searching for licensed day care providers. Also provides training workshops for day care providers on various topics, such as early childhood development, health and safety, nutrition, educational activities, and program management. Assists those interested in starting a day care through funding and orientation seminars.

* Offers referrals to support services such as case management, parent education classes, and obtaining baby items such as diapers, and other supplies.

Offers information and referral to individuals looking to become child care providers, including help with licensing. Also provides customized referrals to parents about child care providers that are licensed in the area.

Helps parents with finding subsidies for daycare. Referrals for early intervention services, child care, health insurance, NYS licensed and registered child care.

Provides list of registered and licensed child care providers. Assists individuals who want to become registered or licensed in child care.

Assists parents with child care referrals and options paying for child care. Assists child care providers with technical assistance and training for all modalities of child care. Offers start up grants for in-home registered or licensed programs. Provides reimbursement to child care providers for serving healthy/approved meals and snacks through the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP). Provides application assistance for Legally Exempt providers, including health and safety grants.

Can help parents locate child care that meets their individual needs. Provides information regarding licensed day care centers, licensed group family day care homes, registered family child care, and registered school-age child care programs. Information available includes the location of the provider, days and hours of operation, phone number, and the type of child care program. Can supply information on becoming a registered or licensed family child care provider. Technical assistance, support, and training is available to help in the operation of child care programs. Health and safety items are available to assist in starting a family child care business and also available to existing registered family and licensed group family child care providers. Training necessary to maintain child care registration or license is offered. Registrar of all family child care and school-age child care programs in Niagara County.

* Provides child care resource and referral services. * Provides technical training to providers through the CCR&R network. * Offers an infant and toddler resource network. * Educates and improves nutrition through polices and practice. * Advocates for New York States families and children for stronger early care and education for organizations.

Updates will be posted at www.childdevelopmentcouncil.org. helps parents, child care providers and employers meet child care needs and the needs of Cortland's children through available, affordable and easily accessible care. maintains database of Cortland-area child care providers. Parents can request referrals by fax, email, online form, telephone or online database at www.childdevelopmentcouncil.org. Requestors receive a referral packet along with tips on interviewing and selecting a quality program. offers training in several formats to help regulated child care providers meet the bi-annual, 30 hours of required training . offers an Emergency Child Care Scholarship that provides short-term assistance with child care expenses.

Provides free or low cost subsidized child care services for eligible families residing in Suffolk County. Child care is available for children, between the ages of 6 weeks through 12 years in licensed day care centers, school age child care programs, group family day care homes, registered family day care homes, and legally exempt/informal child care programs. NOTE: Children with special needs may be able to receive subsidized child care through 18 years of age. Families must meet income and program eligibility criteria to be eligible for a child care subsidy. For further information or guidance in the selection of child care services, please contact the Child Care Council of Suffolk at (631)462-0303.

Offers aid to families in crisis through the provision of personal care items, food vouchers, utility and rent payment assistance, transportation coordination, economic self sufficiency program, referrals to other agencies, and food (see separate listing for food pantry). Provides opportunities to increase children's educational chances for success in school by providing school readiness learning and helping to find and obtain quality child care. Also provides on the job training, teenage pregnancy prevention education, and energy and weatherization home assistance.

Provides services for persons seeking to open a child care business and for parents needing a quality environment for their children that supports employment. Area staff conduct employer outreach and training, parent and provider resource and referral, health and safety inspections, and provider recruitment, registration, monitoring, and in-service training activities in an effort to facilitate quality child care at an affordable cost.

Offers aid to families in crisis through the provision of a food pantry, food vouchers, personal care items, utility and rent payment assistance, transportation coordination, economic self sufficiency program, and referrals to other agencies. Provides opportunities to increase children's educational chances for success in school by providing school readiness learning and helping to find and obtain quality child care. Also provides on the job training, teenage pregnancy prevention education, and energy and weatherization home assistance.

Provides list of registered and licensed child care providers for parents who are looking for child care. Assists individuals who want to become registered, licensed, or legally exempt providers in child care. Provides child care training for child care providers.

Provides free child care resource and referrals to parents or guardians who need child care, an overview of available options, consumer education, information on financial assistance, and resource development and recruitment. Families in need of child care can access Council's services by telephone, through the internet at Council's website, email, mail and fax or in person for child care options that best meet the family needs. Low income parents are given information about eligibility for child care subsidy through the Nassau County Department of Social Services (NC DSS) as well as information from the continuously updated child care provider database regarding sliding scales, scholarships and multi-child discounts at various child care facilities. Each parent that calls the Council is offered information on Early Intervention services and/or the Early Childhood Direction Center for children with special needs, current financial information including Earned Income Tax Credits, Child and Dependent Care Credits, and Child Health Plus as well as referrals to assist them re: many other issues concerning the family (ex. legal, domestic violence, mental health, child abuse, etc.).

Familyâs Child Care Connections serving Columbia, Greene and Ulster Counties is a child care resource and referral agency, working to increase the supply of quality child care and assists parents in their child care search by referring them to legal child care providers. Other services include: identifying sources of financial aid, training and technical assistance to early care and learning programs, etc.

Educates parents on the options of child care and provides them with referrals to child care programs based on parents' specific child care needs, including online child care search for resources, or discussing questions regarding child/day care. Also provides assistance to employers regarding child care information.

The Child Care Resource and Referral provides information and referrals as well as training, advocacy, and education to meet the needs of children, families, businesses, and providers. Our offices are located in Elizabethtown and are open from 8:00am to 4:00pm, Monday through Friday.

Provides child care referrals, child care subsidies, provider training and career counseling, administers child and adult care food program, registrar for family day care and school age programs, enrollment of legally exempt child care providers, and technical assistance to employers regarding child care services.

Provides a range of resources to help parents with their child care needs, people who want to start or are currently running child care programs, and anyone with a concern about the health or safety of a child in a day care program.

Provides child care referrals, child care subsidies, provider training and career counseling, administers child and adult care food program, registrar for family day care and school age programs, enrollment of legally exempt child care providers, and technical assistance to employers regarding child care services.

Provides parents with referrals to child care centers, family child care homes, pre-schools, and school-age child care programs in Onondaga and Cayuga counties. Shares information about regulations, costs, and possible resources for financial aid.