Description:
Child Care Resource & Referral
Our goal is to increase access to consistent, affordable, and quality child care services. We work with parents, providers, and communities to develop highly competent children through quality early childhood programming!
We connect parents with child care services, we develop professionals who care for and educate children, we analyze and report child care data that impacts communities, and we implement innovative child care quality improvement initiatives.
YoungStar
YoungStar is a program of the Department of Children and Families created to improve the quality of child care for Wisconsin children. YoungStar evaluates and rates the quality of care given by providers, helps parents choose the best child care for their kids, supports providers with tools and training to deliver high quality early care, and sets a consistent standard for child care quality. Learn more at youngstar.wi.gov.
Child & Adult Care Food Program
The mission of the Child & Adult Care Food Program is to improve the diets of children by reimbursing family child care providers for serving food that meets USDA nutritional guidelines.