Links To Other Organizations : National Organizations, Institutes and Resources
- National Association for Family Child Care
The focus of NAFCC is to provide technical assistance to family child care associations. This assistance is provided through developing leadership and professionalism, addressing issues of diversity, and by promoting quality and professionalism through NAFCC's Family Child Care Accreditation.
- National Association for the Education of Young Children
Early childhood educators and others dedicated to improving the quality of programs for children from birth through third grade work through Regional Affiliate Groups to improve professional practices and working conditions in early childhood education and build public support for high-quality, early childhood programs.
- National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Networks
NACCRRA offers many services to early childhood professionals and public policy makers, including: an annual policy symposium, publications, regional conferences and professional opportunities from around the U.S. in the early childhood and CCR&R field.
- National Child Care Association
A non-profit professional trade association that provides information and resources for licensed, private child care centers and preschool programs.
- National Child Care Information Center
A national resource that links information and people to complement, enhance and promote the child care delivery system, working to ensure that all children and families have access to high-quality comprehensive services. Offers publications and resources from their online library, links, and state profiles.
- National Institute on Early Child Development and Education
Sponsors comprehensive and challenging research in order to help ensure that America's young children are successful in school and beyond -- and to enhance their quality of life and that of their families.
- National Network for Child Care
This site offers over 1000 publications and resources related to child care; KIDCARE, an e-mail list-serve providing a way to communicate nationally and internationally with others who care about children and child care; support and assistance from experts in child care and child development; and CONNECTIONS quarterly newsletters for family child care, center-based care, and school-age child care.
- National School-Age Care Alliance
A national organization of public, private, and community-based providers of after-school programs. Promotes quality school-age care for children and youth from 5 to 14 years old, and grants accreditation to programs meeting the standards. Contains information on their standards of quality school-age care and how to select quality after school programs.
