The primary mission of the Child Care Resource Center (CCRC) is to promote
quality, affordable child care in the Tulsa Metropolitan area through information sharing,
advocacy, training, service development and education. CCRC does this by increasing
public awareness, supporting consumers and providers of child care services, and improving
policies and funding affecting them. The CCRC builds and maintains the
infrastructure necessary to support the Tulsa community's child care system.
Please visit the
Child Care Resource Center Website to learn all about the Child Care Resource Center and its
services -- including help finding child care!
Oklahoma Economic Summit on Early Childhood
Investment, July 27 in Oklahoma City
By
investing in early childhood, we plant the seeds for economic growth.
Agenda
Brochure, pages
1 and
2
Videos:
The summit
"Change the First Five
Years and You Change Everything" from Ounce of Prevention
President Obama, "The Benefits of Early Childhood Education" and
"Why We Must Reach Young Children Early"
Tulsa hosted international infant & toddler conference
CSC's Child
Care Resource Center and JumpStart Tulsa were among co-sponsors of a major
international conference held in Tulsa April 23-25, "revolutionizing the way we look at infancy and the early toddler
years...cutting-edge early childhood practices."
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Blog
Podcast, February 2008:
Podcast - Oklahoma's STAR system
rating child care quality
Press release, January 2008:
Higher Standards for Quality Child Care Met
Tulsa, OK—Two Tulsa area child care centers have been accredited by the
National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) through the
Academy of Early Childhood Accreditation and the Tulsa area Child Care
Resource Center’s Quality Enhancement Initiative (QEI).
Read
more
CCRC research report, 2007: Family Child
Care Study
Download
the report
Oklahoma is
highly ranked for child care quality
Recently, Oklahoma was ranked 1st
in the nation for providing quality child care state standards and
oversight in child care homes; 3rd in the nation for providing
quality child care oversight in child care centers; and 6th overall
for providing quality child care standards and oversight in child
care centers, according to report cards issued by the National
Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies. The
2007 report card gave Oklahoma's oversight
system for child care centers a national ranking of 3rd. That
same report placed the state 6th overall for its oversight and state
standards of child care centers. In its region, Oklahoma was the only state to receive a top
10 ranking. The 2008 report card gave Oklahoma the top ranking nationally for
oversight and state standards of child care homes, ranking the state
above the U.S. Department of Defense, a system traditionally viewed
as the gold standard of child care. To read the
rest of this release, please go to
http://www.okdhs.org/library/news/rel/2008/02/occs02112008.htm
Karen
Smith is named Director of CSC's Child Care Resource Center
The Community Service Council of Greater Tulsa (CSC) and the
Child Care Resource Center (CCRC) are pleased to announce that Karen Smith
has been selected to oversee the Child Care Resource Center. She celebrates her 12th year with the Community Service Council where she most
recently has been working with the Area Prevention Resource Center promoting
early childhood and family support activities. Karen assumed the Director
position from Jan Figart, Associate Director for CSC, who served as Interim
Director of CCRC for two and half years. Karen officially began her work
with CCRC in January 2007.
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Child Care Resource Center (CCRC)
18 North Norwood
Tulsa, OK 74115
918 / 834-CARE
www.ccrctulsa.org
For more information, please e-mail
Karen Smith,
ksmith@ccrctulsa.org
A program of the Community Service Council of Greater Tulsa,
a United Way agency
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