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Child Day Care Career Resources
Career Resources include sites that specifically relate to your career in child day care. Find organizations to join and increase your networking abilities. Many of these organizations and associations have their own newsletters or magazines, job databases, and certification exams. You will also find links to other relevant web sites for your child day care career and books, software or journals that can help as you build your professional knowledge.
Explore online resources below in the following categories:
- Child Day Care and Related Associations
- Child Day Care Resources
- Job Resources for the Child Day Care Career
- Books and Journals for Child Day Care
Child Day Care and Related Associations
Child Day Care Association • Provides resources and support for child day care programs and families
National Association for Family Child Care • Offers a nationally recognized accreditation system specifically for family child care providers
National Association for Sick Child Daycare • Organization that supports the establishment of sick child day care programs across the nation
National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies • Organization that works with more than 700 state and local Child Care Resource and Referral agencies nationwide, and leads projects that increase the quality and availability of child care professionals
National Association for the Education of Young Children • Find resources and publications for early childhood education, or become a member to get discounts on these resources
National Child Care Association • A trade association for the child day care profession
Child Day Care Resources
Child Care Aware • America’s most trusted resource for child day care information—here you can find a monthly newsletter and keep up-to-date.
Everything Child Care • This web site answers many questions about child day care that you may have.
Childcare.net • This amazing website provides any and all information you need to know about starting your own child day care business. Information ranges from grants and funding to blogs and networking, as well as toys for day care.
Daycare Match • Helps put parents in touch with child day care providers, and make advertising easier for providers
MetroDaycare • Another site that helps to match child day care providers with parents
ChildCare.gov • Links to resources for child day care providers
Starting a Child Care Center • Resource links provided by the USDA Rural Information Center
Resources for Child Care Providers • Provided by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children & Families
Job Resources for the Child Day Care Career
Jobs2Careers • Search for child day care jobs by state
CareerBuilder • Find child day care jobs in your area on CareerBuilder.com
TopUSAJobs.com • Thousands of child day care jobs available nationwide
Indeed • Search for jobs and post your resume
Care.com • Apply for nanny positions on this site
Jobs.net • See currently available child day care job openings and fill out job applications
Tutor Time Child Care/Learning Centers • Search for open jobs and submit your resume, centers are located throughout the U.S.
Childtime Learning Centers • Search for open jobs and submit your resume, centers are located throughout the U.S.
Books and Journals for Child Day Care
Amazon.com • Check out the various titles available by typing “Child Day Care” into the search bar
Teaching Young Children • Provides research-based ideas that preschool educators can use in their classrooms
Young Children • An award-winning journal published by the National Association for the Education of Young Children and devoted to issues in the filed of early childhood education.
