I am a Child Care Provider.  What does ChildCareInfo.com have for me?   

Information for Child Care Providers in one Place!

Community

• Sell or exchange your child care items!  The ChildCareInfo Classifieds/Exchange is for child care providers to post listings for free! (You have to be registered  or logged-in to post your listings)
• Find the newest information in the child care professional blogs!  Variety of information in the Child Care Professional Blog, Nutrition information, Early Childhood Education ideas and information, Stress Management, and Tom Copeland Excerpts!
• Ask Questions and Get Answers from fellow providers and Tom Copeland!  Don’t forget to search what you are looking for and get notifications about topics you are interested in.  (You must be registered  or logged-in to access the Forums.)
• Chat casually with providers and other professionals in the child care industry on the Network. (You must be registered  or logged-in to access these pages).
• Decide who you want to have a conversation with and invite them to a group in the Network.  (You must be registered  or logged-in to access these pages).
• Conferences, learn about the conferences that are going on in the child care industry!  If you know of some in your area, let us know and we can post them!

Food and Fitness

• Get some exercises, information about the importance of movement and additional resources to help make your care the healthiest it can be!
• Tips, ideas and recalls for your menu planning needs!
• Need some recipe ideas?  Community submitted, NAFCC provided and USDA provided!
• Ideas about teaching the kids about the food groups!
• Want to learn more about the Child and Adult Care Food Program?  Learn why it is beneficial to you.  Learn about CACFP’s history and find some helpful links.
• Looking for assistance and help with Meal Pattern Requirements?  This is the page for you.
• MyPlate – order your poster, get some quick tips and links to some fun parts of USDA’s website.

Children’s Place

• Articles and ideas for creating different types of environments for your child care, activities you can do and early childhood education information, written by our ECE expert, Summer Langille.
• Books for the young child suggested by our ECE expert as well as books for the educator.
• Toy recommendations from the community and our ECE expert.
• Wondering what special days or events are coming up that you can use in your care?  This is the place for you. 

Knowledge Center

• Short articles about business skills and management written for the child care provider.
• Facebook, Twitter, Blogging, Alerts, Setting up a website?  Free web resources for you!
• Find your state’s homepage for licensing and CACFP!
• Learn a little bit more about Minute Menu!
• Coming soon, a directory in which you can list your business for free and pay a fee to list additional information!  For now, here is a survey to tell us what you want…

Parents

• Direct your parents to childcareinfo.com for some information about quality child care!