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Our History
2006 The Child Care Resources Homeless child care program was recognized as the Outstanding Program of 2006 by the Seattle Human Services Coalition. CCR provided scholarships to 146 low income children and assisted 6,482 families find child care. The Careers program trained 30 low income and refugee women for a career in child care. CCR assisted 1,200 child care providers and facilitated 200 hours of college credit to child care teachers in Seattle. 2005 Child Care Resources unveiled a new logo and color scheme. In 2005, CCR staff provided technical assistance to 1,200 child care providers in King County, and launched a program to assist child care teachers affiliated with the City of Seattle Early Learning Network to obtain a college degree. CCR's Homeless scholarship program provided assistance to 512 families, serving 1,00children. Our resource and referral service also assisted 7000 families in their search for quality child care. Child Care Resources reached out to Family Friend and Neighbor child care providers and facilitated a network of Play and Learn Groups.
2004 Child Care Resources celebrated its 15th anniversary. Since 1990 CCR has served more than 110,000 families looking for child care, and provided thousands of hours of technical assistance and training to child care providers and the community. In 2004, CCR served more than 8,00 families and
provided more than 1,200 hours of technical assistance and training. With the Board of Directors and input from the community, Child Care Resources developed a new strategic plan. 2003 Child Care Resources scholarship program provided almost $200,00 to assist 111 families with the cost of child care for 142 children. Our Child Care Careers program provided almost 50 low income and immigrant women with skills that would allow them to get jobs in the child care field. Child Care Resources supported child care providers with technical assistance about marketing and budgeting as the uncertain economy strained child care programs. 6500 families consulted with Child Care Resources as they made child care choices for their children. CCR staff offered assistance in several different languages, and the CCR website made information available to families in multiple languages. Child Care Resources helped nearly 400 homeless families by finding and paying for child care. Child Care Resources helped create networks for informal care providers caring for family, friends, or neighbors, and collaborated with other agencies that support these informal care providers. 2002 Child Care Resources received a donation of a Medic One van. This has allowed the agency to implement a long term dream of providing mobile services to child care providers. There is also a laminator and a small copy machine as well as provider books, videos, supplies and materials. The van has allowed the agency to serve providers at conferences, their local libraries, in addition to the provider’s own location. Watch for it in your neighborhood. Child Care Resources increased the number of people served by its Child Care Careers Program; a program that trains TANF recipients to work in the child care field. Training includes health and safety, nutrition, environment, curriculum development, behavior management, child abuse and prevention, how to write a resume, interviewing skills, and professionalism. In addition to attending class, participants complete an internship in a child care center, Head Start site, Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program or a family child care business for 20 hours per week during the course of their studies. Child Care Resources received a donation of a Medic One van. This has allowed the agency to implement a long term dream of providing mobile services to child care providers. There is also a laminator and a small copy machine as well as provider books, videos, supplies and materials. The van has allowed the agency to serve providers at conferences, their local libraries, in addition to the provider’s own location. Watch for it in your neighborhood. 2001 CCR received major funding to focus efforts on recruiting and retaining child care providers. The goal of this funding was to increase choices for families and to improve the quality of existing child care programs through training and technical assistance. CCR received special funding to provide enhanced child care searches to assist parents who needed to place children with special needs into licensed child care programs. In addition, CCR staff provided long term technical assistance to those providers to insure that the child was successfully integrated into the child care program. Research shows that a significant number of children are being cared for by license exempt Family, Friends and Neighbors caregivers. CCR starts to work with this group providing technical assistance, support groups and training. 2000 CCR celebrates its 10th Anniversary, and now has 43 staff members and a budget of $2.5 million. CCR publishes Child Care Then and Now, and Child Care in King County 1990 - 2000. CCR helps launch Employer Champions for Children, a business-led campaign in Seattle and King County to improve the quality of early care and education for the community’s youngest members (from birth to age 12). 1999 Washington passes the Career and Wage Ladder Pilot Project to subsidize wages based on education and experience. CCR recruits a record 116 family child care
providers. 1998 The number of low-income families CCR works with grows from 68 to 77 percent of the total served. The Child Care Resources referral database goes on-line. 1997 Welfare Reform threatens to exert enormous pressures on the child care system as thousands of welfare recipients enter the workforce. Washington State earmarks $80 million for child care subsidies. 1996 Fifty-four family care providers sign up for a new CCR two-year, advanced training program. In King County the average hourly wage of child care employees is $7.66. CCR shifts from a geographic to a functional organizational structure with two main divisions: Provider Services and Parent Services. 1995 A national study finds that only one in seven child care programs are of good quality. Celebrating five years in operation, CCR now has 30 staff members and a budget of $1.5 million, and has helped a total of 30,000 parents find appropriate care for their children. 1994 CCR sharpens its focus, deciding to concentrate
on low-income families, families with children with special needs and
children served in family child care. 1993 CCR Board President Richard Mockler describes the agency as the “hub” of many community efforts, among them the Diversity/Inclusion Project, the Eastside Access Project, The City of Seattle Teen Parent Hotline, The Caring Partnership (formerly Family to Family) and the Safeco Immunization Project. 1992 In a national study only 56 percent of child care
employees report they have any early childhood education training. CCR participates in the Early Childhood Systems Project which is assessing barriers to under-served communities including people of color, those in rural areas, gay and lesbian parents, and families of children with disabilities. 1991 The fledgling agency adopts a new logo and renames itself Child Care Resources. CCR collaborates with several other local agencies on Family to Family – a national, multi-million dollar effort to recruit and promote accreditation among family child care providers. 1990 On April 1st, Child and Family Resource and Referral (CFRR) headed by Chief Executive Officer Nina Auerbach, opens for business in Seattle’s Central District. By the end of its first year, CFRR has 17 employees, three offices – in Seattle, Bellevue, and Kent – and a budget of $750,000. 1989 Across the nation, 60 percent of working women are mothers of infants or toddlers. King County has a gap of an estimated 35,000 to 58,000 in child care slots as well as severe problems of affordability and quality. The Human Services Roundtable, representing several local governments, agrees to establish an agency to address child care needs county-wide.
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