Advocating for Quality
How Can You Advocate for Quality Child Care?
Families:
- Learn how children develop and what they need in order to reach their potential and use this knowledge in making decisions for children
- Share your child care concerns with your child care provider
- Share your child care concerns with your local Child Care Resource & Referral program
- Support and take advantage of your employer’s work-life policies
- Stay abreast of state child care legislation that ultimately impacts your child and contact your senators to support your position
Child Care Providers:
- Become a licensed provider through the Child Care Licensing Unit (1-800-852-3345 ext. 4624) Contact your local Child Care Resource & Referral program for more information.
- Develop professionally by attending trainings and workshops beyond the required twelve hours.
- Raise the professionalism of the child care field by earning your Early Childhood credential per the New Hampshire Child Development Bureau’s Early Childhood Professional Development System. Contact your local Child Care Resource & Referral program for more information and to request financial assistance.
- Join NAEYC and NHAEYC and attend conferences to stay informed of national and state child care advocacy initiatives
- Stay abreast of state child care legislation that ultimately impacts your program and contact your senators to support your position
Employers:
- Be open to exploring ways you can support your employees with their child care needs such as offering flexible spending accounts, contributing to Dependent Care Assistance Plans, etc. Contact the IRS (Internal Revenue Service) to learn more about child care related tax incentives.
- Provide on-site information on your local Child Care Resource & Referral program for your employees
- Contact your local CCR&R program and ask what your child care community needs and how you can help
- Stay abreast of state child care legislation that ultimately impacts your community and contact your senators to support your position
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