These individuals were selected from almost 600 applicants to form a Subcommittee to represent the larger child care provider community and provided direct feedback on drafts of the rewritten child care certification regulations.

To help guide families in understanding, identifying, and implementing Developmentally Appropriate Practices, ELRC Region 5’s quality partner Trying Together developed the Developmentally Appropriate Parenting Series. Three new parts — Gender and Gender Identity, Family Dynamics, and Caring for the Caregiver — are now available.

Any grant recipient that wishes to begin reporting can access the Spending Report and begin to enter their spending amounts.

This initiative is open to existing home-based child providers or caregivers, both licensed Family Child Care providers and license-exempt or unregulated Family, Friend, and Neighbor (FFN) providers and caregivers.