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The California Child Care Initiative Project (CCIP) Matching Grant program is the largest public-private partnership in the country working to improve the quality and increase the quantity of child care.  Developed by the BankAmerica Foundation in 1985, the program recruits and trains family child care providers to help meet the great demand for child care services.  CCIP is implemented by existing community-based child care resource and referral programs (R&Rs) throughout California.  To date, the project has raised more than 19 million dollars from public and private sector funders, including an annual commitment of up to $250,000 in matching funds from the State of California. 

A new funding source for CCIP was implemented in 1997, and later expanded in 2002 to serve every county in California.  Using federal dollars from the Child Care and Development Block Grant, the California Department of Education, Child Development Division began providing grants to counties to develop family child care homes and to train family child care providers to care for infants and toddlers.  For many R&Rs, particularly those located in rural and underserved areas, this Quality Improvement funding has allowed them to provide outreach, to increase the number of licensed family child care spaces, and to offer training opportunities to improve the quality and sustainability of care in their local communities.  The CCIP model has also been replicated in Massachusetts, Michigan and Oregon.


The Initiative has produced many publications to assist child care providers including: 

• The Family Child Care Handbook (326 pages/7th edition), provides information on how child care providers can offer a licensed, safe environment for children.
• El Comienzo (The Beginning, in Spanish) provides Spanish-speaking providers with practical information for providing safe, quality child care.
• Look Who’s Coming to Family Child Care: Infants & Toddlers, Birth to 24 Months (also in Spanish, Vietnamese and Chinese), is a training manual for infant and toddler care.
• Meeting the Needs of Working Parents, A Guide to Non-traditional Hour Child Care, is designed to assist providers serving families with non-traditional hour child care needs.
• Look Again: Infants & Toddlers in Family Child Care, Birth to 36 months, (also available in Spanish) is an advanced guide to infant/toddler care in a family chidl care setting.

Click here for the CCIP Publications Order Form.
 
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