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Child Care Resource Center, Inc. Notes to Financial Statements
Note 1 – Nature of Operations (continued)
 Quality Start San Bernardino and Los Angeles Counties (QSSB, QSLA) – CCRC provides training and coaching for center-based and licensed family child care home providers who wish to improve the quality of their care. They learn methods to improve the classroom environment, teacher – child interaction, complete college classes to obtain a teacher assistant or teaching certificate, their Associate or Bachelor’s degree, family engagement, and screening of children with special needs.
Child & Family Literacy – CCRC offers several different opportunities for families to participate in literacy activities including Motheread, Jumpstart's Read for the Record, Kaleidoscope and family literacy workshops. In addition, the agency collects and gives away over 100,000 books annually for families in our service area.
Help Finding Child Care – CCRC's Referral Specialists assist parents, at no charge, in locating and selecting the best child care for their family's needs – types of child care, how to identify a quality environment, and referrals to licensed child care providers.
Head Start Birth to 5 – Head Start Birth to 5 is a comprehensive preschool program that works to ensure the healthy development of thousands of local children age birth to 5 years. The program for children birth to 3 years includes a home visiting option and a center-based option. Both include parent education, health, nutrition, mental health services and developmentally appropriate activities for infants and toddlers, including children with special needs. For children age 3 to 4, the program provides the same information and support for parent plus three to six hours a day in a high quality pre-school classroom, as well as medical, dental & mental health, nutrition and parent involvement services.
Early Head Start Child Care Partnership – Under this program, child care providers receive training in order to offer working families the same comprehensive services as the Early Head Start Birth to 5 program. Each child participating in the program receives appropriate activities and comprehensive services such as nutrition, health, and dental evaluations. Child care providers benefit from coaching and mentoring to maintain a high level of care. Families also receive parenting and child development support.
Home Visitation – CCRC's Home Visitation program which began on December 1, 2013, is an initiative directly linked to Welcome Baby which is active in 14 Best Start Communities throughout Los Angeles County. To participate, families must live within the Best Start community boundaries. The program is through Welcome Baby referrals and utilizes the Parents as Teachers curriculum to provide the information, support and encouragement parents needs to help their children achieve optimal development during the crucial early years of life.
Emergency Child Care Project – In partnership with the Department of Children and Family Services in LA County staff work to find child care and support paying for child care for foster / resource parents to take in children under the age of five upon their removal from home.
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