Child Care Office

The ccpo monitors regulates and licenses child care facilities across the state and further promotes child care quality through grants to child care resource referral agencies and the direct administration of the child care grant program.

Child care office. For more information call the child care works helpline at 1 877 4 pa kids. Acf 801 fy2018 preliminary data. 800 862 5252 for information about child care in texas call between 8 a m.

Informal child care is when a friend relative or nanny cares for a child in the family home or in his or her own home receives no compensation of any kind for providing care or provides care for less than 20 hours per month. You can also find help and information at your local early learning resource center. Occ has standards for these facilities to be licensed or.

Call the office for your region with questions about 24 hour residential child care options. If you contact a regional office of the division of child care services that office will be able to provide you with the licensing and regulatory compliance history of any child care provider who is or was licensed by ocfs. Regional office of the division of child care services.

Contacts for 24 hour child care operations. Email child care licensing. Child care informal and formal.

The child care services division is the state s child care and development fund ccdf administrator responsible for the child care subsidy program and quality initiatives. Formal child care includes child care centers and family child care homes. Its child care assistance program ccap provides subsidies to low income families who meet income guidelines and are working a minimum of 20 hours per week at or above rhode island s minimum wage to offset the cost of child care.

The child care program office ccpo is the lead agency for the federal child care development fund ccdf functions. They also provide oversight technical assistance and support in promoting safe healthy and caring environments for children through licensing registration and quality improvement activities. We share the concern of parents the child care centers group child care homes and family child care homes in pennsylvania meet basic health and safety standards.