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Consumer Education materials
The Working Your Way through the Child Care Maze publication in partnership with Bright Beginnings Colorado is a tool for parents to use when searching for quality child care. It includes information about types of child care, licensing information, why quality child care is important, questions to ask child care providers, and much more. It is emailed or mailed with every childcare referral. You can download the entire publication. At:
Current Projects
- Qualistar Quality Ratings: Developed by 150 early childhood experts, the Qualistar Rating measures quality in licensed early learning programs, both home and center based that serve children birth to kindergarten.
- Child Care Providers volunteer to have trained quality rating specialists spend several hours in their programs collecting information and evaluating their program. In other cases, Child Care Providers are required to have annual quality evaluations because of funding sources. For more information on child care resources available, please visit www.qualistar.org
- Quality Improvement
- Coaching for Qualistar Rating Programs
- Family Home Provider Recruitment Project (coming in January 2008
Tamara Volz, Resource & Referral Director
tamarav@earlychildhoodprograms.org
970-247-5960 x22
Charlotte Pirnat, Executive Director
charlottep@earlychildhoodprograms.org
970-247-5960 x15
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