Child Care Services Association

ensuring affordable, accessible, high quality child care
for all young children and their families

	Finding Care
	Paying for Care
	Child Care Quality
	Options and Regulations
	Child Care Checklist
	Additional Resources

	T.E.A.C.H. Early Childhood® Project
	Child Care WAGE$® Project
	Nutrition Services
	Improving Quality
	Training

What's Happening

Jim & Carolyn Hunt Child Care Resource Center: Learn more.

Summer Options, 2008: Your guide to hundreds of summer camps and workshops for children in the Triangle. Click here.

Regional Training Calendar
April - June, 2008
Training sessions for child care professionals. Download here. | PDF |

T.E.A.C.H. Early Childhood® - National Conference 2008 - Register now.

Employment Opportunities: Purposeful, fulfilling work, which supports young children and their teachers statewide.

Welcome to Child Care Services Association

We are excited to be a part of the proven success of early care and education programs. Through research, services and advocacy, Child Care Services Association realizes improvements to the child care system in Durham, Orange and Wake counties, throughout the state of North Carolina and across the country. As a national nonprofit agency and United Way member, we are proud to be a leader and innovator in strengthening the early care and education system.

Why Should You Care About Child Care?
	Before first grade, a child may spend 10,000 hours in a child care program. Each of those hours is critical: research tells us that children who attend a good early education program in the first five years of life are most likely to be in a highly skilled job or in college at age 21... \| MORE \|

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