Child Care Quality

Goals

• Improve and maintain the quality and quantity of early care and education programs and services.
• Increase the skills, education levels, and professionalism of field.
• Increase the compensation, wages, benefits, and working conditions for early childhood professionals through public awareness, policy, and funding efforts.
• Increase parents/guardians knowledge and ability to understand the importance of early care and education, to be involved in their child's learning, and to make informed child care choices.
• Improve the quality and availability of early care and education programs for children with special needs by supporting programs with strategies for successful inclusion.

Agencies/Programs fully or partially funded by CCDF Quality Funds:

• Children's Cabinet Child Care Resource & Referral
• Las Vegas Urban League Early Childhood Connection
• Nevada Child Care Licensing
• NevAEYC T.E.A.C.H. Early Childhood Nevada
• UNR Family Care Contract Network
• WCSD The Nevada Registry and Early Learning Guidelines
• Nevada Department of Education Office of Early Learning and Development

Links

• Silver State Stars Quality Rating Improvement System (QRIS)
• Accreditation Technical Assistance
• Nevada's Pre-K Standards
• The Nevada Registry
• Nevada's Core
• FREE Job Posting Service
• T.E.A.C.H. Early Childhood® NEVADA