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: Does Your Child Receive High Quality Care?
Q&A Childcare Resources
Thinking about becoming a child care provider? Here is a helpful website.
Local Child Care Programs Earn Virginia Star Quality Initiative Rating: Click here for a list of rated early learning programs. (The following centers will be rated in 2010: Salvation Army Child Care Center, Wesley Child Care Center, Victory Hill Preschool, Covesville Child Development Center.)
Find Child Care Online
Guides for Finding Quality Child Care
Click here to access the Spring Edition of VACCRRNews - VACCRRN's e-newsletter for providers and child development professionals.
Virginia Child Care Newsletter
Child Care Provider Trainings - An Overview
What is Child Care Quality?
The CYFS Child Care Quality Program helps families find quality child care and
helps providers to improve the quality of the child care they offer. Serving
the city of Charlottesville and the counties of Albemarle, Greene, Fluvanna,
Louisa and Nelson, Child Care Quality offers resource and referral to families,
voluntary registration for small home-based child care providers, the Seal of
Good Child Care for providers seeking to improve their quality of care, and
trainings for new and established child care providers.
Parent Feedback Survey - Please complete our online survey. If you have already received a referral please take this quick survey. Your feedback will help us improve our services. Thank You. Your client ID number is located at the top of your referral list.
Resource and Referral
Parents - find the best care for your child! The CYFS Child Care Quality Program
provides families with referrals to licensed and registered family child care
providers, licensed child care centers and preschools, and religious exempt
child care centers and preschools. No charge.
Contact Sharon Churchman at 296-4118, ext. 241
or Kathy Flanders at 296-4118, ext. 243
Child Care Aware® Parent Network (CCAPN) is a free membership organization specifically for parents and those who care about and for children. The goal of CCAPN is to provide meaningful, relevant and important information about parenting and child care so our members will become well-informed child care consumers and well-connected advocates. CCAPN includes interactive resources that will bring together people who share a need to know more about how to purchase and use child care, and will come to share their concerns about access to safe, affordable and nurturing child care. Sign up now by clicking this link. www.CCAParentNetwork.org
Voluntary Registration of Home-Based Child Care Providers
The CYFS Child Care Quality Program is the local contracting agency for the
State of Virginia Voluntary Registration Program for home-based child care providers.
Providers who care for five or fewer children (not including their own) in their
homes can contact Sharon Churchman at 296-4118, ext. 241 or e-mail Sharon
to ask about qualifying for Voluntary Registration. (Voluntarily registered
child care homes are eligible for referrals from CYFS’s Resource and Referral
Service.)
Seal of Quality Child Care
CYFS works with providers enrolled in the Seal of Quality Child Care program of
the Partnership for Children. The seal is awarded to participating area regulated
providers who demonstrate quality service – including safety, programming,
nutrition and environment – to the children in their care. There are four
levels of recognition available in the Seal program. Providers are offered resources,
training and mentoring to assess and improve their care to earn higher Seal
levels. The Seal may be posted at the child care site to let parents know that
they are receiving quality care for their children. The program is free and
voluntary. For more information, call Kathy Flanders at 296-4118, ext. 243,
or e-mail Kathy.
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