Child Care Office

We share the concern of parents the child care centers group child care homes and family child care homes in pennsylvania meet basic health and safety standards.

Child care office. The division of child care services provides assistance to low income families who need help with child care costs while parents work or attend school. Email child care licensing. Formal child care includes child care centers and family child care homes.

The office also handles child care licensing and funds a variety of initiatives to support early care and education. Regional office of the division of child care services. Acf 801 fy2018 preliminary data.

If you contact a regional office of the division of child care services that office will be able to provide you with the licensing and regulatory compliance history of any child care provider who is or was licensed by ocfs. Its child care assistance program ccap provides subsidies to low income families who meet income guidelines and are working a minimum of 20 hours per week at or above rhode island s minimum wage to offset the cost of child care. Contacts for 24 hour child care operations.

You can also find help and information at your local early learning resource center. The office of child care supports low income working families through child care financial assistance and promotes children s learning by improving the quality of early care and education and afterschool programs. Call child care licensing.

The child care covid 19 grant can be used to help child care providers cover a variety of expenses during the covid 19 crisis including salaries and benefits for employees dhs licensing fees liability insurance tuition and registration relief for families lease and mortgage payments utilities cleaning supplies classroom materials and. The ccpo monitors regulates and licenses child care facilities across the state and further promotes child care quality through grants to child care resource referral agencies and the direct administration of the child care grant program. Child care informal and formal.

Informal child care is when a friend relative or nanny cares for a child in the family home or in his or her own home receives no compensation of any kind for providing care or provides care for less than 20 hours per month. They also provide oversight technical assistance and support in promoting safe healthy and caring environments for children through licensing registration and quality improvement activities. In addition the division is also responsible for monitoring and licensing child care centers and homes for compliance with minimum standards.