Child Care Centers
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Who's Minding the Kids? Child Care Arrangements
Description: The child care data presented in the detailed tables was collected by the U.S. Census Bureau and comes from the fourth interview of the 20010 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) Information collected on child care through SIPP has evolved over the years to include comprehensive data on child care use, cost, and receipt of government assistance. Data is available back to 1985.
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Choosing Child Care: a guide to selecting quality care for your child 
Description: This brochure helps parents to think through what type of child care will best fit their needs. It asks questions of the parents, the providers, the centers, and gives information on what to look for in each setting. Also available in html at http://betterkidcare.psu.edu/ChildCareGuide.html.
Looking for Care for Your Baby?
Author: Martin, Sally (5 more by this author); Dan Weigel
Description: This fact sheet describes things for parents to look for when looking for child care. It offers information and a checklist to help you collect information on a child care program so that you can make an informed decision about wether a particular program will meet your needs and your child's best interests.
Quality Child Care: How Do I Know It When I See It?
Author: Allen, Rose (6 more by this author)
Description: Finding out about all the options open to you is only the first step in selecting child care. The next step is to determine the quality of care in the child care centers or family child care homes you are looking at. This online article provides information for parents to use in deciding if a child care program is high quality.
The Parent's Child Care Handbook/Guia de los Padres para el Cuidado del Niño
Author: Merk, Patricia
Description: This publication provides lists of things for parents to check for when examining a possible child care provider or day care center. It provides your child care choices in selecting quality care for your child. This publication is also in Spanish on this page.
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Achieving a State of Healthy Weight: 2011 NRC Update
Description: This update reports the status of the states’ child care licensing regulations as of December 31, 2011 to National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care and Early Education. The complete data set consists of core 2010 ratings (plus the adjusted 2010 ratings for Virginia), modified to reflect additional or revised regulations enacted January 1 -December 31, 2011 for Arizona, Arkansas, and North Dakota. For each of the 47 study variables, each state is assigned up to three final ratings (one per child care type the state regulates), for a total of 6,920 ratings in 2011.
Findings of the NRC’s national assessment may inform policy makers in identifying content areas within childhood obesity prevention that merit targeted strategies. Detailed findings for individual states may facilitate review of regulations and inform priorities for planning desired improvements of related regulations
Description: This website provides health and safety performance standards for all types of programs that provide child care for children outside of their own home. Topics covered include staffing, ratios, activities for healthy development, health promotion, nutrition and food service, facilities, infectious disease, children with special needs, administration recommendations, and licensing.
Can view manual online by chapter or download a copy or order a copy through mail.
Child Care for Low Income Families: Summary of Two Workshops
Author: Phillips, Deborah (1 more by this author)
Description: This web site contains a report about a workshop conducted about low-income families and their difficulty in paying for child care. Also discussed are the government and employer roles, and quality standards. It allows you to read the book online for no cost.
Preventing Childhood Obesity in Early Care and Education Programs
Description: These selected standards from new comprehensive Caring for Our Children: National Health and Safety Performance Standards; Guidelines for Early Care and Education Programs, highlight the new set of national standards describing evidence-based best practices in nutrition, physical activity, and screen time for early care and education programs. The standards are for ALL types of early care and education settings ? centers and family child care homes. The standards are part of a comprehensive movement to decrease childhood obesity.
Also available in Spanish at http://nrckids.org/CFOC3/PDFVersion/preventing_obesity.pdf.
The Parent's Child Care Handbook/Guia de los Padres para el Cuidado del Niño
Author: Merk, Patricia
Description: This publication provides lists of things for parents to check for when examining a possible child care provider or day care center. It provides your child care choices in selecting quality care for your child. This publication is also in Spanish on this page.
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Child Care for Low Income Families: Summary of Two Workshops
Author: Phillips, Deborah (1 more by this author)
Description: This web site contains a report about a workshop conducted about low-income families and their difficulty in paying for child care. Also discussed are the government and employer roles, and quality standards. It allows you to read the book online for no cost.