Publications

Growth Chart- 5 Steps to Finding High-Quality Child Care

This growth chart encourages parents to follow 5 steps to finding high-quality child care. The growth chart measures children up to 5 feet. It is in English on one side and Spanish on the other.

ASAP: Accessing Support for All Parents

The decision to stay at home or return to work is not an easy one. This pamphlet provides families with useful tools that assist in the child care decision making process. The information, resources, and budgeting worksheet will aid families in making an informed decision about the best child care option for their family at this time. This pamphlet complements the online decision making tool found here.

How to Find Quality Child Care in Your Community

We have combined seven of our popular brochures into this durable, pocket-sized guide. Information in this guide covers parents' needs for their children from birth to school-age.

Making the Transition from Child Care to Kindergarten: Working Together for Kindergarten Success

Parents and caregivers play an important role in children’s early learning experiences. By partnering together, you can make sure that your child is involved in activities that will prepare them for their next big step - Kindergarten! This brochure offers guidance for a smooth transition.

Learning to Read & Write Begins at Birth: A Guide to Early Literacy in Child Care

This brochure will give you a good start to knowing how you and your child's caregiver can best build your child's early reading and writing skills.

Find out simple ways for your child to have fun with literacy both in child care and at home. This brochure also provides an Early Literacy Child Care Checklist to help you evaluate the early literacy materials your child's caregiver offers.

A Guide for Dads: Give Your Child an Early Lead in Life...Quality Child Care

Studies show fathers who get involved with their children's care and education make a real difference in their children's success in school and life.

This brochure is written specifically for fathers, to help you get and stay involved with your child's early care and education. In it, you will learn key indicators of child care quality and tips for choosing child care that is right for your child.

Finding Help Paying for Child Care

This brochure addresses the difficulties many families face in meeting the cost of child care. Find out how you might be able to reduce your child care costs by taking advantage of child care subsidies, tax credits, and exploring alternatives to full-time care.

Poster: Child Care Resource and Referral in Your Local Community

This poster describes what services CCR&R's provide within the local community. It is an attractive, simple, easy to understand poster that outlines what CCR&R is. Purchase them to display in your offices.

Posters are 22" x 28" and are available in English and Spanish.

Child Care Resource and Referral in Your Local Community

What is Child Care Resource and Referral and how can it help you? Child Care Resource and Referral services are available in most local communities. They provide many valuable services to families. Read this tip sheet and discover what your local Child Care Resource and Referral program can do for you!

Five Steps to Choosing Summer Child Care

Provides parents with guidelines for choosing a quality summer care program. Also includes some general tips to consider.

Five Steps to Choosing Safe and Healthy Child Care

Provides guidelines for families and consumers in choosing safe and healthy child care in various settings.

Selecting a Quality After-School Program

Concerned about after school care for your child? This brochure will help you in selecting a quality after-school program. It includes questions to ask yourself along the way as well as a checklist to refer to when looking at a specific program.

Matching Your Infant's or Toddler's Style to the Right Child Care Setting

This brochure offers some guidelines on how to use what you know about your infant or toddler - like personal style and activity level - to select a child care setting that’s just right.

All in the Family

Using relatives to care for your children while you work or go to school has some unique issues. Read this brochure to help make this choice a good choice for you, your child and the relative caring for your child.

Choosing Quality Child Care for a Child with Special Needs

In a quality child care environment, caregivers respond positively to differences in children’s abilities, interests and experiences.

This brochure provides parents with important factors to consider when choosing quality child care for a child with special needs. A sample checklist is included.

Give Your Child Something That Will Last a Lifetime

Is child care something you need? Then this brochure can help. Especially if you’re looking for the one thing that matters most in child care - QUALITY.

This brochure provides parents with five helpful steps to choosing quality child care. It also includes a checklist to use when choosing a child care home or center.