Every day, you serve as a teacher, a counselor, a caregiver, a referee, a janitor, a reading specialist, a business manager, and any other role the moment demands of you. You do your best to create a safe, healthy, and enriching place for kids to learn and grow. But meeting everyone’s needs while juggling everything on your own can sometimes feel impossible.
You need — and you deserve — support from the state and community you serve. That’s what Child Care Aware of Kansas is here to offer.
The Child Care Health Consultant Network is a free service available to all licensed child care providers in the state of Kansas. Focused on promoting health, safety, and wellness in child care environments, we offer one-on-one coaching and planning sessions, wherever and whenever you need it.
Links to Quality provides community consultants who coach, consult, and connect programs with resources and other providers through local Learning Communities.
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This initiative offers a year-long partnership with family child care providers to make sure that children enter kindergarten with skills to help them learn.
Providers interested in obtaining a Breastfeeding Friendly Child Care designation can receive support through Child Care Aware of Kansas. Check out the Frequently Asked Questions to learn more. You can also explore our list of breastfeeding resources.
The Child Care Aware® of Kansas team is here to help you create a space where all children, families, and staff feel safe and valued. When we partner on diversity, equity, inclusion, and access (DEIA), we lay the foundation for kids to succeed – and your business and community to flourish.
Baby Steps is an innovative pilot that seeks not only to offset the revenue lost by caring for infants and toddlers, but also to bring family child care providers’ incomes closer to what might be considered a “livable” wage.
Barton County is working overtime to build community support for its child care, and hopes to rewrite their narrative.
Families in this county must work to survive and must have child care to do so, yet child care is often problematically undervalued as a field. This leads to a lack of support for child care providers and families, ultimately resulting in a lack of available and affordable child care options in Cloud County.
Your donation to Child Care Aware of Kansas is an investment in our state's future. Join our efforts towards ensuring accessible, affordable, high-quality child care for every child.
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