The Nevada Registry is not responsible for the content of sites that are external to our program. Linking to a website does not constitute endorsement by The Nevada Registry of the sponsors of the site or information presented on the site. |
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| Nevada Sites of Interest |
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Bureau of Services for Child Care |
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To ensure the health, safety and proper treatment of children receiving out-of-home care, the Bureau has the responsibility for initial licensing, continued monitoring and providing technical assistance to child care facilities caring for five or more children not licensed by local entities. |
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The mission of the Division of Welfare and Supportive Services is to provide quality, timely and temporary services enabling Nevada families, the disabled and elderly to achieve their highest levels of self-sufficiency. (775) 684-0500 (telephone), (775) 684-0646 (fax). Address: 1470 College Parkway,
Carson City, Nevada 89706.
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Family
Care Contract Network |
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The UNR
Family Care Contract Network is a quality enhancement program providing
support and technical assistance to licensed family child care providers
in Northern Nevada. For more information, contact Campus Child
Care Connections at (775) 784-4400. |
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Healthy Child Care Nevada |
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Child Care Health Consultants (CCHCs) are professionals trained to work directly with early childhood providers. They offer consulting services and community resource information and referral. The Healthy Child Care Nevada website is designed to help both professionals and families improve their response to the health and safety needs of children in their care. |
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Healthy Kids LV |
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Affordable, nutritiously-balanced meal programs for families with young children. |
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Nevada
Head Start State Collaboration Project |
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A grant program that is federally-funded through the Administration
of Children and Families, Head Start Bureau. The Collaboration Office
is mandated to fulfill its mission through work across eight initiative
areas that each Head Start direct services grantee must address in
its work with children and families. |
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Nevada
Association for the Education of Young Children |
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NevAEYC is a state affiliate of the National Association for the Education
of Young Children (NAEYC) striving to bring high-quality early learning
opportunities to all children from birth through age eight. Click here to view NevAEYC's Early Childhood Education Policy Position for Nevada - 2008. |
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Nevada
Department of Education |
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Nevada Kids Count |
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The Nevada KIDS COUNT project is a statewide, collaborative effort that brings together a wide range of organizations and agencies involved with children and families in Nevada. By providing policymakers and citizens with the best available data on the educational, social, economic, and physical well-being of all children in our state, Nevada KIDS COUNT seeks to improve the lives and the futures of all our children. |
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Nevada
Head Start Association |
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A non-profit organization committed to enhancing the lives of Nevada's
low-income children and families. |
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Office
of Early Care and Education |
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The umbrella agency for programs funded under the Federal Child Care
Development Block Grants. |
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State of Nevada Child Care and Development Program (formerly EOB) |
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Provides a variety of programs including Child Care Subsidies to help families pay for child care; Resource and Referral to help families find licensed child care; Caregiver Support to provides substitute care for families and licensed facilities; Scholarships for child care providers to attend ECE classes; Try-Angles Program to provide prevention and intervention strategies and the Quality Family Child Care Program for quality family care homes off-base for all military personnel. Call: (702) 387-KIDS (5437) or toll free at: (888) 387-0090. |
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T.E.A.C.H.
Early Childhood® Nevada |
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T.E.A.C.H. Early Childhood ® Nevada is part of Nevada's early childhood professional development system and is designed to address the lack of early childhood specialization, inadequate compensation, high turn-over rate, and the lack of professional recognition for early childhood professionals in Nevada. T.E.A.C.H. provides scholarships for Home Care Providers, Teachers, Teacher Aides, and Center Directors/Owners who work in a licensed early childhood facility at least 19 clock hours a week and would like to pursue a degree or certification in Early Childhood Education.
T.E.A.C.H. scholarships are available when working towards a Nevada Child Care Apprenticeship Certificate, an ECE Certificate of Achievement, an ECE Associate of Science degree, an ECE Associate of Arts degree, or a Bachelors degree in Early Childhood Education. Scholarships are available for any of the above listed degrees from: The College of Southern Nevada, Great Basin College, Truckee Meadows Community College, Western Nevada College, The University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and The University of Nevada, Reno.
For more information and an individual consultation please call (775) 448-5203 or (800) 259-1907 for Northern and Rural Nevada and (702) 486-1476 for Southern Nevada. |
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The
Children's Cabinet, Inc. |
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The Children’s Cabinet Child Care Resource and Referral (CCR&R) Department is a Nationally Accredited CCR&R agency that is Quality Assured by Child Care Aware. The CCR&R Department provides a range of programs in our community to support families with child care through subsidy assistance, respite care, consumer education, resource and referral, literacy and parenting; to support providers with training, services like Addressing Behaviors Challenges and Caregiver Support Network, mini grants for improving quality and starting a child care business; and to support communities by disseminating vital child care information and data to encourage regional planning and financial support for the child care industry. |
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University
of Nevada, Reno - Cooperative Extension |
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Gain access to a wide range of resources and publications focusing on
children, youth and families. |
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Center
for the Child Care Workforce |
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CCW/AFTEF’s mission is to improve the quality of early care
and education for all children by promoting policy, research and
organizing that ensure the early care and education workforce is
well-educated, receives better compensation and a voice in their
workplace. |
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Center for Early Childhood Education @ Northampton Community College |
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Children's
Defense Fund |
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The Children's Defense Fund’s Leave No Child Behind® mission
is to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start,
a Safe Start, and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to
adulthood with the help of caring families and communities. |
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Council for Professional Recognition |
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Every Child Matters: Change for Children |
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Every Child Matters: Change for Children is a new approach to the well-being of children and young people from birth to age 19. The Government's aim is for every child, whatever their background or their circumstances, to have the support they need to be healthy, stay safe, enjoy and achieve, make a positive contribution, and achieve economic well-being. |
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First
Class Teachers |
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Established to unite early childhood educators and
their allies in support of better wages, benefits, professional development
opportunities, and working conditions. Together, we are working to
ensure that early childhood educators are given the rights, raises,
and respect they deserve, and that every child's "first classroom" experience
is indeed first class. |
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KIDS COUNT |
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A national and state-by-state effort to track the status of children in the United States |
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National
Association of Child Care Resource & Referral
Agencies (NACCRRA) |
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Organization works with more than 800 state and local Child Care Resource & Referral
agencies to ensure that families in every local community have access
to high-quality, affordable child care. To achieve their mission, they
lead projects that increase the quality and availability of child care,
offer
comprehensive training to child care professionals, undertake groundbreaking
research, and advocate child care policies that positively impact the
lives of children and families. |
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National
Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) |
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Dedicated to improving the well-being of all young children,
with particular focus on the quality of educational and developmental
services for all children from birth through age 8. NAEYC is committed
to becoming an increasingly high performing and inclusive organization. |
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National
Child Care Information Center (NCCIC) |
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A service of
the Child Care Bureau, is a national clearinghouse and technical
assistance center that links parents, providers, policy-makers,
researchers, and the public to Early Care and Education information. |
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National
Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care (NRC) |
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The NRC's primary mission is to promote health and safety in out-of-home
child care settings throughout the nation. |
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Provider
Appreciation Day |
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Provider Appreciation Day is a special day to recognize child
care providers, teachers and educators of young children everywhere. |
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Redleaf National Institute - The National Center for the Business of Family Child Care |
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A division of Resources for Child Caring, a nonprofit organization that works closely with Redleaf Press, another division of Resources for Child Caring, which publishes business resources and other materials for child care professionals. RNI is committed to improving the quality of family child care by helping providers successfully manage their businesses by offering support to trainers of providers, tax preparers, and organizations (CCR&R agencies, family child care associations, food program sponsors, military bases, and state and national child care organizations) who assist providers with their business. |
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The Right Choice for Kids |
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The Right Choice for Kids is NAEYC’s campaign to promote NAEYC Accreditation of Programs for Young Children to families and the public. |
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Worthy
Wage Day |
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Worthy Wage Day is a day for child care workers and families to
rally with others concerned about the poverty-wages paid to child
care
workers. |
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| Related Sites of Interest |
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Nevada
Administrative Code: Services and Facilities for Care of Children |
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