Licensing & Accreditation
This page contains links to resources of interest to anyone considerring opening a home-based child-care center.
Connecticut Department of Public Health
The link below will take you to the Connecticut Department of Public Health’s page with information on the Child Day Care Licensing Program. Here you will be able to find:
- Day Care Licensing Program Descriptions
- Forms and Applications
- Statutes and Regulations
- Resources/Links
- Contact Information
Starting a Day Care Business
This site contains information on setting up, managing and promoting a day care. It also provides articles on working with children, how children learn, and child development.
Tips for Opening a Day Care
This site provides practical insight into running a home day care to help you determine if it is right for you.
Components of a Quality Day Care Program
The Minnesota Child Care Resource & Referral Network has developed a checklist for providers to use to assess their programs and develop action plans for improvement.
The Minnesota Child Care Resource & Referral Network
The National Institute for Literacy
The National Institute for Literacy publishes tips for everyday ways to build language in the children in your program.
National Child Care Information Center
Sponsored by the Child Care Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, Department of Health and Human Services. This site provides a central access point for child care-related information. It includes links to other organizations and provides full-text documents.
National Association for the Education of Young Children
The NAEYC is the nation's largest organization of early childhood professionals (100,000) dedicated to improving the quality of early childhood education programs from birth through age 8.
National Child Care Association
NCCA is a professional trade association focused exclusively on the needs of licensed, private childhood care and education programs. As an alliance of care and education professionals and owners, NCCA takes a singular position in the United States as the ONLY organization representing the specific interests of the licensed, private community.
National Network for Child Care
NNCC unites the expertise of many of the nation's leading universities through the outreach system of Cooperative Extension. Our goal is to share knowledge about children and child care from the vast resources of the land-grant universities with parents, professionals, practitioners, and the general public. They network with committed individuals around the country to bring you practical information and resources that will be useful to you in your everyday work with children.
National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care
The National Resource Center is located at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver, Colorado, and is funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, HRSA. The NRC's primary mission is to promote health and safety in out-of-home child care settings throughout the nation.
National School Age Care Alliance
NSACA is the only national membership organization representing the entire array of public, private, and community-based providers of after school programs.
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