As a child care provider, 211 Child Care can provide you with the information you need to operate a successful child care business such as:
Quality Improvement:
Elevate is the Office of Early Childhood’s (OEC) quality improvement system for licensed and license-exempt child care programs in family, group, and center-based settings.
Business Practices:
- Fingerprinting for OEC Child Care Background Checks
- Steps to becoming licensed as a family child care provider or licensed child care center
- Make real time updates in your profile on the 211 Child Care provider portal
- Advertising your business
- Small business financial resource information
- Average fees charged in your area
- Professional Associations
- Resource Guide: Starting and Operating a Child Care Business (English) (Spanish)
- Join the Staffed Family Child Care Network
Communicating with Families
Services for Families
- Child and Adult Care Food Programs
- Resources for Families Experiencing or At-Risk for Homelessness
- Interactive Learning Series around family homelessness and the McKinney-Vento Homelessness Assistance Act
Preparing for Emergencies:
- Emergency Preparedness
- The Connecticut Child Emergency Preparedness Committee (CEPC)
- Resource Guide: Emergency Preparedness, Response and Recovery Resources for Child Care Programs (English) (Spanish)
Children’s Health & Development
- Children’s Growth and Development
- Social and Emotional Supports
- IDEA Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
- Healthy for Life
- Infant Toddler Resource Guide for Infant/Toddler Care Providers
- Infant Toddler Resource Guide Videos (English) (Spanish)
211 Child Care is a free statewide service to help match the requests of parents with child care providers and programs. Be sure that your program is being referred! Contact 211 Child Care to list your program in our database. An information specialist will gather information such as: your fees, program hours, enrollment openings, meals served, languages spoken, etc. This information will be updated on a regular basis and you can contact us with updates to make any changes or make them yourself through the 211 Child Care Provider Portal.
Contact 2-1-1 Child Care at 1-800-505-1000 or email at 211childcare@ctunitedway.org