Welcome To Child Care Resources!

Saturday, May 19, 2012

Child Care Resources of Southwest Michigan

Southwest Great Start to Quality Resource Center

Child Care Resources (CCR) is the Southwest Great Start to Quality 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 a Great Start to Quality 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 Southwest Great Start to Quality 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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Genius! ... begins with quality child care.


What's New

CDA Renewal Amnesty Program

Beginning March 1, 2012, the Council For Professional Recognition will launch the Renewal Amnesty Program, which will allow anyone who has earned a CDA in the last ten years to apply for Renewal, even if their CDA has expired. This means that if your CDA has a credential date of January, 2002 or later, you are eligible for Renewal Amnesty. This program will only last until December 31, 2012 so don't delay… Renew your CDA today!

Visit this website for more information and to purchase a renewal packet: http://www.cdacouncil.org/announcements-and-events/221-cda-amnesty-program


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


Child Care Resources is the Southwest Great Start to Quality Resource Center

Child Care Resources is a Great Start to Quality Resource Center, one of nine 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.


Great Start Links

Early Childhood Investment Corporation (ECIC)

Great Start Quality Rating and Improvement System

Sandbox Party

Child Care Resources is committed to helping providers, parents, guardians, grandparents, and interested consumers understand what quality child care is, provide training and support to those who strive to provide quality child care. In addtion, Child Care Resources is dedicated to educating the public about what quality care looks like in the child care environment because we believe that GENIUS!...begins with quality care. Be a genius! Learn about quality child care - every child deserves it.

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