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Printed copies are available: Member: $7.50, Non-Member: $10.00 Covering the Map: Child Care Resource & Referral Agencies Providing Vital Services to Parents Throughout the United States
Printed copies are available: Member: $10.00, Non-Member: $15.00
Latino Parents’ Perception of Child Care in the United States
Printed copies are available: Member: $10.00, Non-Member: $15.00 Keeping Children Safe: A Policy Agenda for Child Care in Emergencies
Printed copies are available: Member: $10.00, Non-Member: $15.00 Knowledge Into Practice: NACCRRA’s Survey of Child Care Resource & Referral On-Site Technical Assistance
Printed copies are available: Member: $15.00, Non-Member: $20.00 Parents and the High Price of Child Care: 2008 Update
Printed copies are available: Member: $10.00, Non-Member: $15.00
Fire Safety: Steps to Quality: A Guide for CCR&Rs to Assist Child Care Programs
Printed copies are available: Member: $7.50, Non-Member: $10.00 We Can Do Better: NACCRRA's Ranking of State Child Care Center Standards and Oversight
Printed copies are available: Member: $10.00, Non-Member: $15.00 Child Care in Thirteen Economically Disadvantaged Communities
Printed copies are available: Member: $7.00, Non-Member: $10.00
What’s the Plan?: Ask Your Child Care Provider Before A Disaster
Printed copies are available: Member: $7.50, Non-Member: $7.50
State Network Best Practices Criteria
Printed copies are available: Member: $15.00, Non-Member: $15.00 State Network Best Practices Self-Assessment Guide
Printed copies are available: Member: $15.00, Non-Member: $15.00 Air Force/NACCRRA
Printed copies are available: Member: $10.00, Non-Member: $15.00 Answering the Call: A Guide to Providing High-Quality Consumer Education and Referral Services (for CCR&R Specialists)
Printed copies are available: Member: $7.50, Non-Member: $10.00 Is This the Right Place for My Child?: 38 Research-Based Indicators of High-Quality Child Care
Printed copies are available: Member: $3.50, Non-Member: $3.50
Disaster Preparation: A Training Program for Child Care Centers
Printed copies are available: Member: $9.95, Non-Member: $9.95
Disaster Preparation: A Training Program for Family Child Care Providers
Printed copies are available: Member: $9.95, Non-Member: $9.95
Brochure: About NACCRRA
Printed copies are available: Member: $7.50, Non-Member: $10.00
Functional Cost Analyses of State Child Care Resource and Referral Systems
Printed copies are available: Member: $2.50, Non-Member: $5.00
Nurturing Children After Natural Disasters
Printed copies are available: Member: $3.50, Non-Member: $7.00
Opening the Door to Quality: Home
Printed copies are available: Member: $10.00, Non-Member: $15.00
Opening the Door to Quality: Center
Printed copies are available: Member: $10.00, Non-Member: $15.00
A Guide to Using Data and Research for Non-Researchers
Printed copies are available: Member: $10.00, Non-Member: $15.00
Child Care Resource & Referral in America
Printed copies are available: Member: $10.00, Non-Member: $15.00 What Do Parents Think About Child Care
Printed copies are available: Member: $10.00, Non-Member: $15.00 Parents' Perceptions of Child Care in the United States: NACCRRA's National Parent Poll
Printed copies are available: Member: $10.00, Non-Member: $15.00 Child Care Resource & Referral and Advocacy: Strategies for Raising Awareness About High Quality Child Care
The toolkit comes with current-year packet of data fact sheets, legislative schedules and elected official information. NACCRRA members will automatically receive these packets in January. Packets can be inserted in the front pocket of the toolkit. Printed copies are available: Member: $10.00, Non-Member: $15.00 Is Child Care Ready?: A Disaster-Planning Guide for Child Care Resource & Referral Agencies and What’s the Plan?: Ask Your Child Care Provider Before A Disaster
Printed copies are available: Member: $19.95, Non-Member: $19.95
NACCRRA's National Survey of Child Care Resource & Referral Training
Printed copies are available: Member: $15.00, Non-Member: $20.00 Capitol Connection Guidebook: 110th Congress, a Congressional Resource Manual for CCR&Rs
Printed copies are available: Member: $5.00, Non-Member: $15.00 CHILD CARE AWARE PUBLICATIONSChild Care Aware, a NACCRRA program, has a suite of brochures for parents available in both English and Spanish. How to Find Quality Child Care in Your Community
A Guide for Dads: Give Your Child an Early Lead in Life...Quality Child Care
This brochure is written specifically for fathers, to help you get and stay involved with your child's early care and education. In it, you will learn key indicators of child care quality and tips for choosing child care that is right for your child. Child Care Resource and Referral in Your Local Community
Five Steps to Choosing Summer Child Care
Five Steps to Choosing Safe and Healthy Child Care
Selecting a Quality After-School Program
Matching Your Infant's or Toddler's Style to the Right Child Care Setting
All in the Family
RESEARCHResults Accountability Guidebook: Child Care Resource and ReferralBy Clara Pratt, Rachel Ozretich and Bobbie Weber. Oregon State University Family Policy Program & Oregon Child Care Research Partnership. This guidebook on CCR&R results accountability was prompted by questions such as, "For what should CCR&R programs hold themselves accountable?" and "In what measurable ways do CCR&Rs contribute to families, children, and communities?" To order a copy of the Guidebook, please contact:
Moving the Debate on Child Care Financing into Communities and States: A Working SeminarDescribes the movement of the financing issue discussion from the national level to state and local venues. The role of CCR&R in designing a national child care financing system is highlighted and local R&Rs and state networks can use the information in their own planning. The listing of "National Resources for State and Local Early Care and Education Financing Projects" found in the attachments offers descriptions and contact information about an extensive number of financing programs and projects around the country.
Data Collection for Building Early Learning Systems: Using Data for Real World Decision-MakingThis paper summarizes the sources of data available for the consumers of information on early care and education including parents, community planners, economic developers, employers, policy decision-makers, programming decision-makers, and researchers. By providing a framework for discerning the sources of data by type, advantages and disadvantages, this paper is a useful resource for individuals building early learning systems at the local, state and national levels. Poised for Shaping Results-Based Early Learning SystemsPublic demand for child care has risen sharply since NACCRRA published its first report on child care resource and referral (CCR&R) in 1996. This new report documents how the CCR&R field has responded in terms of the volume, scope, and sophistication of services it provides to families, child care providers, and communities. Printed copies are available: Member: $5.00, Non-Member: $10.00
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE PAPERS (TAP)TAP #11: Taxes and Child CareInformation CCR&Rs Can Use to Help Families and Employers Learn About the New Federal Tax Law - Edna Ranck, Ed.D. The Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 (Public Law 107-16) offers several tax advantages to families with children and employers who support child care and CCR&R. CCR&R organizations and colleagues can learn more about the provisions of the new federal tax law in this special edition of TAP #11. Readers are also advised to check on the details of the tax law with their accountant or tax professional.
TAP #10: Child Care Advocates Meet Election Results: What to do When the Administration ChangesOne of the biggest challenges to early care and education advocates comes when elections bring about new policymakers, especially when changes include a shift in partisan leadership. This TAP provides a list of essential skills in what to do when the administration changes. Printed copies are available: Member: $5.00, Non-Member: $10.00 TAP #9: Making Child Care Work - CCR&R Best PracticesThis paper provides best practice guidelines for CCR&R agencies to use in their service delivery. The guidelines will also be useful to state networks and to state administrators as they consider relationships with individual CCR&R's. Based on best practices from three states' self-assessment instruments (IL, NC and WI), these standard guidelines and examples should help CCR&R agencies evaluate their existing services. Printed copies are available: Member: $5.00, Non-Member: $10.00
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This guide provides CCR&R Technical Assistance/Outreach Specialists with the overview of health practices and how to support child care programs in implementing these measures.
This report takes an in-depth look at the services local Child Care Resource & Referral agencies (CCR&Rs) provide to parents in their local communities. The report reveals that CCR&Rs are making a major impact in the lives of families across the United States, serving parents in 99.3% of all populated zip codes.
This report compiles the results of a series of focus groups and a national poll of Latino parents on their thoughts and feelings about child care issues
This report serves as the foundation for a national awareness campaign/ policy agenda to ensure that children are safe in a time of crisis.
Building upon the findings and recommendations of NACCRRA’s earlier report on Child Care Resource & Referral (CCR&R) training, Knowledge Into Practice further illustrates that CCR&Rs are poised to support a national child care training and technical assistance network. The report details the results of NACCRRA’s national on-site technical assistance survey, provides a full review of the existing body of research on technical assistance, and includes an overview of the technical assistance support offered to child care programs receiving federal funds. It also offers recommendations on how both CCR&Rs and the larger child care community can improve on-site technical assistance to ensure high-quality child care.
This report presents data on child care prices collected from a nationwide survey of State Child Care Resource and Referral Networks and local Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies.
This guide provides CCR&R Technical Assistance/Outreach Specialists with a basic overview of fire safety standards and how to support child care programs in implementing these measures. It includes ready-to-use resources, such as a self-assessment fire safety checklist, a fire safety improvement plan, and more.
This report ranks every state (including the District of Columbia) and the Department of Defense on 15 basic criteria related to their current child care center standards and oversight. The results reveal that states fall short of meeting basic requirements needed to protect the health and safety of children in child care, and to promote their school readiness. The rankings are based on data from the 2005 Child Care Licensing Study: Final Report, produced by the National Association for Regulatory Administration (NARA) and the National Child Care Information and Technical Assistance Center (NCCIC).
This report compares the need for child care to its supply in 13 urban communities across the United States that are economically challenged. Funded in part by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, this research shows that, within these communities, the supply of licensed and regulated child care falls far short of the demand, and even if the supply were adequate, the high price of such care is far too expensive for many parents.
This colorful brochure, sold in packs of 25, is designed to help parents ensure the safety and well-being of their children during a disaster. The perfect resource for Child Care Resource & Referral agencies and others who interact directly with parents, What’s the Plan walks parents through 10 questions they should ask about the what, when, where, and how of their provider’s disaster plan.
This publication offers a blueprint for excellence for the delivery of services by Child Care Resource & Referral State Networks. It serves as a guide for the development of training and technical assistance that best supports State Networks.
A companion tool to the State Network Best Practices Criteria, this self-assessment guide is designed to be used as a benchmarking and planning tool for Child Care Resource & Referral State Network Staff, Boards of Directors, and State Child Care Administrators.
This report details the success of two-year partnership between NACCRRA, the United States Air Force, and 12 CCR&R agencies to increase the quality of civilian child care in communities near 15 Air Force bases.
This guide provides Referral Specialists a basic overview of what elements should be involved in a high-quality referral and how to carry them out. It also includes ready-to-use resources, such as a self-assessment competency checklist, sample referral call script, parent education resources, and more.
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Provides a general overview of NACCRRA and CCR&R and the important role we play in improving the system of early learning for children.
A Look at Six States: Kansas, Maine, Missouri, New York, Utah, and Vermont Analyses by Patrick E. Gannon, CPA and Colleen Ann Smith. Compiled by Debra Foulkes.
Provides basic disaster preparation information, as well as specific guidance on helping children cope with the aftermath of natural disasters.
A guide to providing effective, on-site, technical assistance in family child care homes.
A guide to providing effective, on-site, technical assistance in center-based child care programs.
Whether you’re trying to secure funding from the government, educate parents on child care, or win a big grant from a foundation, numbers - and the way you present them - count.
This report describes the organizational structure of CCR&Rs, and the scope of the services they provide to families, child care providers, and communities. It reveals how CCR&Rs in America work with NACCRRA to support high-quality child care for all children.
As more than six in 10 children are cared for regularly by someone other than their parents, the National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies (NACCRRA) conducted a series of focus groups to better understand what parents look for when they select child care, the difficulties they experience, and compromises they make, and what in their minds constitutes quality care.
With nearly 12 million children under age 5 in some type of child care setting every week, the National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies (NACCRRA) conducted a poll of nearly 600 parents to find out their perceptions of child care, thoughts on minimum requirements for caregivers, the kind of care they use, including information on whether family or friends and neighbors are caring for their children, and if they are juggling work hours to take care of their children. Learn about what parents are looking for, what choices parents make, and what underlying assumptions they logically make.
This toolkit is designed to support and strengthen advocacy and outreach efforts for CCR&R. “Raising Awareness” can take many forms and is not just about legislative advocacy. State-level outreach is crucial to ensure that the nearly 12 million children in child care each week receive high quality care. By working together, we can be the voice for change. This toolkit is designed to support and strengthen advocacy and outreach efforts for CCR&R. The toolkit includes sections on developing advocacy plans, teaming up in the community and state, engaging parents, working with the media, and more. 
This package contains two publications to assist Child Care Resource & Referral agencies (CCR&Rs) in helping child care programs and parents prepare for disasters. The guide is a practical toolkit for CCR&Rs to help both child care centers and family child care providers keep children safe and their businesses open during and after natural disasters, terrorist attacks, chemical emergencies, and other catastrophes. The colorful brochure (also 
The results of NACCRRA's national training survey indicate that Child Care Resource & Referral (CCR&R) agencies are poised to lead our nation in establishing a national community-based training system. The centerpiece of this report is a 12-point plan to create such a system - built from the existing infrastructure of CCR&R - to improve the quality of child care for all children in the United States. In addition to findings from the national CCR&R training survey, the report includes an overview of the impact of training on the quality of child care as evidenced by previous research. It also contains information about parents' and providers' views on training, and an overview of the effective training systems used by the U.S. Military and Head Start/Early Head Start.
From understanding the process, to building relationships, to mastering the issues -- this primer provides the tools you need to be effective on Capitol Hill.
We have combined seven of our popular brochures into this durable, pocket-sized guide. Information in this guide covers parents' needs for their children from birth to school-age.
Studies show fathers who get involved with their children's care and education make a real difference in their children's success in school and life.
What is Child Care Resource and Referral and how can it help you? Child Care Resource and Referral services are available in most local communities. They provide many valuable services to families. Read this tip sheet and discover what your local Child Care Resource and Referral program can do for you!
Provides parents with guidelines for choosing a quality summer care program. Also includes some general tips to consider.
Provides guidelines for families and consumers in choosing safe and healthy child care in various settings.
Concerned about after school care for your child? This brochure will help you in selecting a quality after-school program. It includes questions to ask yourself along the way as well as a checklist to refer to when looking at a specific program.
This brochure offers some guidelines on how to use what you know about your infant or toddler - like personal style and activity level - to select a child care setting that’s just right.
Using relatives to care for your children while you work or go to school has some unique issues. Read this brochure to help make this choice a good choice for you, your child and the relative caring for your child.
