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Family Services
Supporting and empowering families
to raise healthy children and to find quality child care.
New brain development research
shows that the brain has the highest rate of neural connections
between the ages of 0-6. The importance of providing high
quality early childhood education programs that support and
work with families is imperative to the brain development
of young children. Staff members at Child Care Connection
are dedicated to helping parents make informed choices about
child care quality, financial options when paying for child
care, and how to best work with child care providers in order
to support the overall development of young children. We support
families by:
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Educating parents about Quality
Indicators when interviewing, selecting and monitoring
a child care program
- Informing parents of the different
Types of Care (i.e.,
approved, licensed, accredited, center-based)
- Providing parents with an individualized
list of child care programs, with current vacancies, that
meet their specific care, financial, and transportation
needs through our Referral Service
- Assisting parents of children with
disabilities in finding quality specialized child care
through our Alaska IN!
Project
- Answering questions and supporting
parents through our Warm-Line
staffed by an early education specialist
- Maintaining a Parent and Professional
Library
- Providing temporary child care while
parents are actively searching for long term employment
through The Children’s
Place, located at the Gambell St. Job Center
EITC & Free Tax Preparation
United Way is helping low-income working families increase their financial stability and self-sufficiency by making sure they receive the federal tax credits they're eligible for - in particular the EITC, or Earned Income Tax Credit.
Please visit http://www.uway.ak.org/content/gethelp/index.cfm for more information.
The decision to stay at home or return to
work is not easy. Child Care Aware’s
Accessing Support for All Parents (ASAP)
project will help families look at factors involved
in making decisions about child care.
The ASAP Decision Making Tool allows families to:
- Consider critical areas of your lives impacted by child care decisions
- Examine feelings regarding child care options
- Seek the most appropriate resources and support for those choices
For more information, log on to:
http://www.childcareaware.org/
en/ASAP/decision_tool.html
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