Links for Child Care Professionals

Awesome Library
www.awesomelibrary.org
A terrific search engine for lots of topics, including education and parenting.

Child Care Aware
www.childcareaware.org
Sponsored by National Association of Child Care Referral Agencies (NACCRA), Child Care Action Campaign (CCAC), and the National Association for Family Child Care (NAFCC). The web site has links to child care provider resources, tips on choosing care and ways to measure quality.

National Association for Family Child Care (NAFCC)
www.nafcc.org
Information on Family Child Care Associations throughout the country and family child care accreditation.

National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)
www.naeyc.org
Information on NAEYC's mission and goals, membership, itemized catalog of all NAEYC publications, public policy issues, and conference schedule and registration.

National Child Care Information Center (NCCIC)
nccic.org
NCCIC's web site provides information for each state in its "state profiles" section. There is information on demographics, staff child ratios, staff qualifications, and useful contacts such as the appropriate state child abuse reporting agency, licensing liaison, child care food program administrator and links to each state's home page. The web page also provides information relating to child care research and funding resources.

National Network for Childcare
www.nncc.org
A variety of information on a range of topics including child development, nutrition, activities, and books.

National Black Child Development Institute
http://nbcdi.org/
Projects that the Institute undertakes include reaching out to the various constituencies that are integral to attaining our mission. They reflect NBCDI's belief that leadership can and should be nurtured at the local level; that families and children at the local level can best articulate their needs; and that working together with the professional community, state and local government, and the private sector we can make a difference.