Community Coordinated Child Care

Child care training and professional development: the 4-c training & quality improvement department offers high quality trainings for early childhood and school age caregiving and education professionals. Training experiences are designed to improve and enhance the skills, strategies, practices, and knowledge of the educator. Trainings are registry approved and are reflective of wisconsin's core competencies for professionals working with young children and their families. Trainings are designed to meet the diverse needs and experiences of participants as well as regulatory compliance, youngstar, and continuing education.

Child care resource and referral: the referral program is ready to assist families in locating quality, regulated child care through consultation and referrals from a database of over 1,000 child care programs throughout columbia, dane, dodge, green, jefferson, rock, sauk, walworth, and other counties. The program guides families in finding, selecting, and utilizing child care based on specific needs of the family. The program also offers corporate child care planning to employers to assist in addressing child care needs of their employees and to support a plan for services to address employee needs.our resource room and resources on the road van provide early care professionals and families with a library of high quality materials for use in their programs.4-c is in the process of becoming an official family resource center, providing parenting and early childhood resources directly to families.

Family child care certification: the certification program assists family child care providers (in participating counties) in obtaining and maintaining standards of regulation for the health, safety, and well-being of children in early care. Certification staff also help providers succeed in their business practices by offering technical assistance and support.