Goals

  • Increase the knowledge and skills of child care providers when working with children

  • Implement strategies to promote high quality, responsive and relationship-based care

Outcomes

Early Care and Education Programs gain:

  • Positive learning environments

  • Supportive interactions with children

  • Collaborative interactions and relationships with families

  • Inclusive cultural and linguistic responsiveness strategies

Learn more about CCCN in the Northwest Region of Missouri at the Mid-America Regional Council

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Child Care Collaborative Network (CCCN)

CCCN is a team effort to build relationships between children and child care staff in order to improve the quality of infant and toddler care and education. Working together, center directors and CCCN specialists develop a plan to increase the knowledge and competencies of early childhood professionals caring for children under age three.

Support is available for Missouri licensed and/or church-based child care centers for infants and toddlers and pre-school programs accepting state subsidy payments in Jackson, Clay, Platte and Cass counties.

CCCN is funded by the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education

CCCN provides caregivers the tools needed for:

  • Building relationships with infants/toddlers and pre-schoolers

  • Providing tender, loving care. Helping children build attachments, regulate emotions, and self-soothe

  • Promoting children's intellectual, social and emotional development

CCCN offers three levels of service:

  • On-site consultation

  • Cohort training

  • Targeted training

CCCN training addresses the essential practices of relationship-based care:

  • Responsive environments

  • Fundamental relationships

  • Meaningful interactions

  • Support for learning and development

  • Cultural and linguistic reflections

  • Individualized care and support

Directors, please contact us to find out how your center can benefit from:

  • Consultation and assessment

  • Training and follow-up for child care staff

  • On-site support for center Director

  • Technical assistance such as help developing schedules, routines, and room arrangements


Questions about the Child Care Collaborative Network? Send us a message!