Provider Services: CCR&R Toolkit for Home Providers
A Toolkit for Child Care
Home Professionals
“Assisting professionals through early care and education”
Welcome to CCR&R!
All of the staff in Child Care Resource & Referral would like to welcome you to the exciting profession of child care. You have one of the most important jobs in America today. You are providing children with their first experiences in early education.
CCR&R wants to be your partner to provide good quality child care. The Department of Human Services (DHS) is responsible for regulatory of all early childhood environments including pre-schools, child care centers, and home care providers. DHS contracts with CCR&R to provide support to all types of early childhood environments. We are here to give you technical assistance to meet Iowa Code and the DHS standards.
CCR&R can help you in a wide variety of ways:
- Child Care Home Consultant – Works directly to with Home Providers on compliance with the DHS checklist.
- Child Care Nurse Consultant – Works with all types of early childhood caregivers on health and safety issues.
- Infant & Toddler Specialist- Works with Center and Home Providers on best environments for infants and toddlers.
- Quality Rating System (QRS) Specialist – Helps all early childhood providers through the QRS application process.
- Professional Development Specialist – Supports any provider or teacher in attaining a Child Development Associate (CDA), associates degree, or bachelor’s degree.
- Training – Over 900 classes are offered with over 2,000 hours of training to be used for QRS rating or professional development.
- Parent Referrals-Have CCR&R provide local parents information about openings in your business.
- Referrals – We can offer referrals to other programs such as CACFP, AEA, and local empowerment programs
Our goal at CCR&R is to support you as an early child care and education professional so you can provide every child with the quality experiences he or she needs. Because your needs as an early care and education professional are unique, we can provide guidance and technical assistance through education and training, by phone, in person, on the internet and in other ways that are tailored to you rather than a one-size-fits- all solution.
We understand there are a lot of different components to CCR&R. To provide better support every professional is being assigned a primary contact. The primary contact is your go to person. When you are ready or if you have a change that requires technical assistance your primary contact will help make the contact. You can also contact the other CCR&R staff on your own, but if you need help, your primary contact can help. You will find your primary contact on the following page.
By working together we can improve the quality of early care and education in our communities and work to keep Iowa’s promise that Every child, beginning at birth will be healthy and successful.
Sincerely,
Melissa Juhl
CCR&R Director
Child Care Resource & Referral of
Northwest Iowa, Region 1
Updated 12/1/09
Table of Contents Tab
Forms to RETURN to CCR&R ……………………………….……………….. 1
Directory………………………………………………………………………… 2
Child Care Home Consultation…………………………………………………… 3
Child Care Nurse Consultation……………………………. …………………….. 4
Parent Referrals………………………………………………………………….. 5
Training Opportunities………………..…………………………………………... 6
Professional Development Consultation…………………………………………... 7
Program for Infant and Toddler Consultation (PITC)……………………………... 8
Quality Rating System …………………………………………………………… 9
Child & Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) …………………...………………. 10
Department of Human Services (DHS) …………………………………………... 11
Acronyms ……………………………………………………………………….. 12
Local Resources ………………………………………………………………… 13