Midwest Child Care
Resource & Referral
A program of Prairie Five CAC, Inc.
Quality Care and Education for Every Child
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>Resources for Child Care Providers >Resources for Parents & Families >Grants >Other Financial Resources >Training/Education >Training Catalog >How to Register >Online Classes >MnSTREAMS >CDA >Training Catalog >News >Contact Us >Links & Other Resources  Have openings in your child care program? As openings or changes occur, please update your file online or contact us toll free at 1-866-511-2244 to update your file in our referral database. |
Grants Grant applications are now available. The deadline to apply is September 25, 2008. Overuse of Antibiotics IS Harmful The Get Smart: Know When Antibiotics Work Campaign is a Center for Disease Control (CDC) national campaign to reduce the rate of the rise of antibiotic resistance by making health care consumers (primarily parents) and their doctors aware of the increased dangers of using antibiotics for upper respiratory and viral infections. >Read more Working on a CDA? Minnesota CDA Support Project The Minnesota CDA Support Project offers financial support and guidance to child care professionals who are working toward their National Child Development Associate Credential (CDA) National CDA candidates may apply for financial support (up to $300) to pay for the services of a qualified CDA advisor. To apply for financial support, please contact the Minnesota Child Care Resource & Referral Network at 651-290-9704 ext. 108 or lindam@mnchildcare.org. What is a CDA? What steps are involved? Complete your CDA training requirements online through Eager-to-Learn's CDA cohort program. Eager-to-Learn is offering a CDA cohort program for child care providers through which participants can meet their 120 hour CDA training requirement by registering for 9 special CDA online classes.  Surge Support Child Care ServicesProviding Child Care for Minnesota's Deployed Army National Guard and Reserve Families The number of families in Minnesota facing the military deployment of a parent or caregiver is growing. Currently 12,000 children in Minnesota have a parent in the National Guard. With the recent extension of deployments, many of these families are facing two full years of separation. This has created unique child care needs for children and families in your community. Child care issues are a pressing problem for our local Army National Guard and Reserve families; help us find the solution! Midwest Child Care Resource and Referral is recruiting child care providers to assist families of deployed Army National Guard and Reserve Members. Here’s how you can help our Service Members:
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Looking for Child Care? Midwest CCR&R offers FREE assistance with finding high quality child care. Training Survey CCR&R uses information from this survey to plan training during the year. Your input is valuable. Training Catalog Shaken Baby Video Available to Purchase Midwest CCR&R has copies of the video available for you to purchase. To order a copy, call our training registration line at 1-877-311-2244. The cost is $5.00. This will fulfill the yearly video viewing requirement. Get your children moving Being active at a young age can help children stay fit for life! Physical activity is an important part of children’s healthy growth and development. Research suggests that toddlers need 30 minutes of structured physical activities everyday, and then an additional 60 minutes of free playtime...>Read more  Midwest Child Care Resource & Referral Achieves National Quality Assurance!
Midwest Child Care Resource & Referral is very proud to have achieved Quality Assurance for our CCR&R services. The Child Care Aware Consumer Education Quality Assurance Program – a national voluntary certification for Child Care Resource & Referral Agencies (CCR&R’s) – is designed to ensure that families across the nation have access to consistent, high-quality services that support them in making informed child care choices."Midwest Child Care Resource & Referral’s achievement places it in the top quarter of the nation’s CCR&R’s for their consumer education and referral services.” Said Linda K. Smith, Executive Director of National Association of Child Care Resource & Referral Agencies (NACCRRA), of which Child Care Aware is a program. "Midwest CCRR has proven itself to be one of the best resources for parents seeking information about child care.” |