Comprehensive Community Child Care Organization Inc

Programs: Professional development. 4c offers high quality courses for teachers, directors and family child care providers in 2014 4c enrolled 22,743 participants in 1,530 workshops, which include a tiered system of learning opportunities, meeting diverse needs of teachers and providers. 4c also provides coaching, technical assistance and training for quality-rating systems in ohio and kentucky; 5,130 coaching/technical assistance visits were made to 785 child care programs and family child care homes in 2014. 4c also provides a range of specialized services including infant-toddler specialists, school-age specialists and specialists helping program achieve star ratings under ohio and kentucky state rating systems. All 4c professional staff work to increase public awareness about the importance of early education and care and to influence public policy through collaborative leadership. Also, providing space to occrra.

parent services. 4c provides free consumer education and child care referrals to parents and grandparents using a comprehensive listing of licensed centers and preschool programs, family child care providers, head start programs and school-age child care options. In 2014, 4c served 7,818 families with services including child care searches, referrals to community resources, and educational information on selecting quality care and child development. 4c also reaches out to parents who care for children at home as well as informal caregivers (i. E. , family, friends and neighbors) to raise their awareness about brain development (90 percent of which takes place before a child reaches kindergarten) and what can be done to ensure that each child has the kind of stimulating environment that helps a young brain grow. In 2014, 4c also served families through our web site and blogs (average of 7,375 visitors per month), our 4c parent e-newsletter (5,804 recipients) and facebook/twitter (4,733 followers).

child nutrition program. In southwest ohio and the miami valley, 4c administers the child care component of the child and adult care food program (cacfp) for family child care providers and a small number of child care centers. Referred to as the 4c child nutrition program, this meal reimbursement program improves the diets of children birth to age 13 by providing the children with nutritious, well-balanced meals and helps develop good eating habits in children that will last through their adult life. Last year 1. 9 million nutritious meals were served through the 4c child nutrition program by 512 family child care providers. 4c began wiorking in october of 2014 with five child care centers to receive cacfp funding and improve their business practices.