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About NACCRRA

NACCRRA, the National Association of Child Care Resource & Referral Agencies, is our nation’s leading voice for child care. We work with more than 800 state and local Child Care Resource & Referral agencies to ensure that families in every local community have access to high-quality, affordable child care. To achieve our mission, we lead projects that increase the quality and availability of child care, offer comprehensive training to child care professionals, undertake research, and advocate child care policies that positively impact the lives of children and families.

Since 1987, NACCRRA has been working to improve the system of early learning for children by:

1. Providing training, resources, and best practices standards to local and state CCR&Rs that support high quality, accountable services
2. Promoting national policies and partnerships that facilitate universal access to high quality child care
3. Collecting, analyzing, and reporting current child care data and research, including childcare supply and demand trends and
4. Offering child care and parenting information and resources to families and connecting families to local CCR&R services

Our programs and services

1. Training and technical assistance to local and state child care resource and referral programs
2. Quality Assurance Program, a national, voluntary certification system for CCR&Rs
3. Child Care Aware®, a national toll-free information line and Web site for families available in English and Spanish
4. Child care policy analysis and advocacy, including an Annual Policy Symposium and Day on the Hill event in Washington, DC

Our products and resources

1. Early Childhood Focus, a Web site featuring daily news clippings about child care and child welfare issues around the country
2. Field studies and trends reports
3. NACCRRAware, an Internet-based child care referral and reporting software program that manages family, child care program, and community data