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Child Care

VISION STATEMENT

Our goal is to provide access to affordable, high quality child care and early education experiences, to enhance our children's development and to support their families in work and parenting roles.

MISSION STATEMENT

The Child Care Section, (CCS) in cooperation with the early childhood community, provides knowledgeable leadership, guidance, and joint planning to achieve this vision.  The Child Care Section provides effective management, development, and coordination of public child care assistance to families.  The Child Care Section facilitates the increased quality and planned supply of child care and early education services.

Guiding Principles

High quality child care and early education support and promote healthy intellectual, emotional and physical growth of children.

Parents, the child's first teachers and primary caregivers, are supported in their work and child rearing roles by high quality care and early education services.

High quality child care and early education should be affordable to families.

A key ingredient in quality child care and early education is an appropriately trained and compensated, stable work force.