Welcome To Child Care Resources! A Great Start to Quality Resource Center

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Child Care Resources of Southwest Michigan

Great Start to Quality Southwest Resource Center

Child Care Resources (CCR) is the Great Start to Quality Southwest Resource Center serving families and providers in the nine southwestern counties of Allegan, Barry, Berrien, Branch, Calhoun, Cass, Kalamazoo, Saint Joseph, and Van Buren.

Training Opportunities

As the Great Start to Quality Southwest Resource Center, we provide a wide array of training opportunities for child care providers, parents, and interested consumers funded by the Early Childhood Investment Corporation. These can be found on our training tab.

Quality Improvement Consultants and Mentors

Child Care Resources offers technical support and mentoring that assits both licensed and unlicensed child care providers with the Great Start to Quality system - a continuous quality improvement effort funded by the Early Childhood Investment Corporation.

Community Awareness

Child Care Resources actively seeks to collaborate with other community organizations like United Way, Great Start Collaboratives and Parent Coalitions, Michigan State University Extension, Head Start and others to promote public awareness of the need for quality child care, assistance in finding quality child care, training in the service area, technical assistance and more.

Resource Library

As the Great Start to Quality Southwest Resource Center we offer a resource library with themed learning activity totes, packs, books, and equipment that can be borrowed from the libraries located throughout the nine county service area by parents and providers to aid in the education of their children through play promoting school readiness.

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What's New

Flanagan to Lead Discussion on Technology in Education with a Public Facebook Webpage

State Superintendent Mike Flanagan opened his Education Technology Work Group to the public today. Flanagan was invited by Governor Rick Snyder to lead a transparent and inclusive discussion to integrate technology into Michigan’s system of education for today and into the future.

The Michigan Department of Education has developed a new Facebook page for this discussion: www.facebook.com/EdTechWG. By “Liking” this Facebook page, the public will be able to follow and participate in the Work Group discussion. The online survey will help Flanagan better understand what is being done now with education technology and what is seen as needs for the future.

Watch Superintendent Flanagan’s video here: http://youtu.be/B2_j6JEuuGQ

To access the EdTechWG survey, go here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/QJK77PM

People also can follow the Work Group on Twitter - https://twitter.com/EdTechWG

Summer Meals for Families

Child Care Provider: let families in your care know that if they need meals for their children during the summer they can visit www.whyhunger.org/findfood or call for english: 1-866-3-HUNGRY or for spanish: 1-877-8- HAMBRE. Provided by the USDA. For Flyer please click here.

If you have families that are willing to assist others in their community please click here for more information.


Great Start Links

Early Childhood Investment Corporation (ECIC)

Great Start Quality Rating and Improvement System

Great Start to Quality STARS User Manual

Sandbox Party


Want to become a licensed program?

To answer your questions, begin with a Start Up class. See the description over to the right.

Family child care business in your home? Click here for more information and an application packet

Group child care business in your home? Click here for more information and an application packet

Center? Click here for more information and an application packet

Newsletter


Great Start to Quality SW Resource Center

Child Care Resources is the Great Start to Quality Southwest Resource Center, one of ten across Michigan. The Resource Center coordinates supports and services for child care providers across all settings, and coordinates supports and services for families searching for licensed and registered child care. Questions? Contact Ella Fabel Ryder at CCR, call 800-343-3470, ext. 227 or email Ella@CCR4kids.org.


T.E.A.C.H. Scholarship

T.E.A.C.H. Early Childhood® MICHIGAN is a statewide scholarship program designed to help child care center teachering staff, preschool teachers, family child care providers, group home owners, center directors, and administrators meet their professional development goals, while continuing their current employment in regulated early childhood and school age care settings. For more information click here.

Child Care Resources is a private, nonprofit agency. All donations are tax deductable!