Resources
MNTRECC provides resources for Child Care professionals throughout the federally recognized tribes within Minnesota.
Please see related resources from our partner organizations.
In 2014 the Minnesota Department of Human Services – Child Development Services, now the Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF), asked The Registry, Inc. to administer and operate the MN Center for Professional Development on interim basis.
Within a year and a half, considerable performance improvements, consistently met deadlines and expectations, and positive cross-sector collaborations proved that the Achieve Team at The Registry, Inc. was the right team to support Minnesota’s early childhood care and education workforce long-term.
After nearly a decade of providing quality customer service & support, the Achieve Team proudly provides a comprehensive approach to career development, promotes members’ professional growth, and contributes to workforce data and research.
Link: Achieve
Subsidized childcare services are available to eligible families through certificates (vouchers) or contracts with providers. Parents may select any legally operating childcare provider. Childcare providers serving children funded by CCDF must meet basic health and safety requirements set by States and Tribes. These requirements must address prevention and control of infectious diseases, including immunizations; building and physical premises safety; and minimum health and safety training.
Visit CCDF
Consultation Services
The Center for Inclusive Child Care (CICC) offers free Consultation Services to childcare providers and all other early childhood and school age professionals in Minnesota.
The goal of the CICC’s Consultation Services is to provide support to childcare and school age care providers, enabling them to successfully include and retain children with special needs and those with challenging behaviors in their programs.
The CICC’s Consultation Services offers:
consultation to childcare and school age providers referral support in finding care or determining best placement options resources for staff development and education
If you would like to speak to a CICC Consultant, call (612) 998-0409.
The Child Care Aware of Minnesota provides statewide leadership in shaping collaborations that build a diverse, high quality child care system accessible to all Minnesota families through local child care resource and referral services.
Child Care Aware of Minnesota
10 River Park Plaza #820
St. Paul, MN 55107
Tel: Child Care Aware of MN (Toll Free) 1-888-291-9811
To Connect To Your Local Resource and Referral 1-888-291-9811
Link: Child Care Aware
Children's Defense Fund (CDF) was founded in 1973 by Marian Wright Edelman to provide a strong and effective voice for the children of America, since they cannot vote, hire lobbyists, or speak out for themselves.
The mission of the CDF is to Leave No Child Behind® and 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. We pay particular attention to the needs of poor and minority children and those with disabilities. CDF educates the nation about the needs of children and encourages preventive investment before they get sick or into trouble, drop out of school, or suffer family breakdown. Using research and data, we work to shape federal, state and local policies that best serves our children's needs in a cost-effective manner.
Link: Children's Defense Fund
The Minnesota Quality Improvement & Registry Tool for professional development serving early learning and school-age care community. It's a one-stop shop where you and your program can get the resources you need to build upon your success through training, tracking, and improving.
Link: Develop
The purpose of the National Indian Child Care Association is to advocate for quality childcare and development, early learning and school age programs on behalf of the diverse Native American communities in the United States, to coordinate these efforts with all other national organizations attempting to achieve similar goals and to collect and disseminate timely information.
Link: www.nicca.us
MLFCCA is a professional family child care organization of licensed family child care providers serving children and family child care providers.
Their mission is to support the highest standard of care for children in licensed family child care homes through education, resources, recognition, and advocacy; while acknowledging the diversity of licensed family child care providers.
The Minnesota Department of Children, Youth, and Families helps people meet their basic needs by providing or administering health care coverage, economic assistance, and a variety of services for children, people with disabilities and older Minnesotans.
Parent Aware’s mission is to help families find the quality care and education their children need to succeed in school and life. The educational experiences children have during the first five years of life will shape the adults they become, making it especially important for all children to have access to quality care and education.
As a childcare or early education professional, you play a critical role in helping complete this mission. When you volunteer to participate in Parent Aware, you go above and beyond basic health and safety requirements and use researched-based practices that support child development.
Link: Parent Aware
