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The National Association of Child Care Resource & Referral Agencies' News Room is an online resource for journalists to learn about child care issues affecting the nation.

• Making Quality Child Care Possible: Lessons Learned from NACCRRA's Military Partnerships
  Today, NACCRRA released its latest report, Making Quality Child Care Possible: Lessons Learned from NACCRRA's Military Partnerships. This report, which examined the lessons learned from NACCRRA’s military partnerships, reveals that the initiatives used to transform the military's child care system from what was once called the "ghetto of American child care" to a "model for the nation" can be implemented throughout the states to ensure that all children have access to high-quality care.
• Grandparents: A Critical Child Care Safety Net
  NACCRRA's most recent report, Grandparents: A Critical Child Care Safety Net compiles the results of a nationwide survey of grandparents about child care. Through the survey, NACCRRA sought to gain a better understanding of grandparents' involvement in the care of their grandchildren and their individual perceptions and beliefs regarding child care and found that nearly 60 percent of grandparents are either providing care for their grandchildren or have in the past. Not only are they providing regular child care, but they are providing, back up care, sick care, before and after school care, as well as summer care.
• Leaving Children to Chance: NACCRRA’s Ranking of State Standards and Oversight of Small Family Child Care Homes
  States do not have regulations in place that protect children in small family child care homes, as indicated by this report. According to the report, only one state is meeting 75 percent of the basic requirements needed to ensure that children are in care that safeguards their health and safety and promotes development and learning.
• Parents and the High Price of Child Care - 2008 Update
  Child care is a major household expense for parents of young children. The average price of full-time care for an infant in a licensed center can be as high as $14,650 a year. For a four-year-old in a licensed center, parents could pay up to $10,920. Family child care homes may be less expensive, but the costs still add up, with average prices for full-time care as high as $9,500 for an infant and $9,000 for a four-year-old.
• We Can Do Better: NACCRRA's Ranking of State Child Care Center Standards and Oversight
  States fall far short of meeting basic requirements needed to protect the health and safety of children in child care, and to promote their school readiness, as indicated by this report.
• Is Child Care Ready?: First-Ever National Disaster Planning Initiative
  Until now, there has been no plan in place to protect our nation's millions of children in child care when disaster strikes. Prompted by the shocking reality of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, NACCRRA is leading the first-ever nationwide initiative to prepare child care programs for disasters.
• Press Releases
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• Child Care Facts and Figures
  Download statistics and fact sheets about child care across the country.
• NACCRRA in the News
  Read media coverage of NACCRRA across the nation.
• NACCRRA Leadership
  Linda K. Smith, NACCRRA's Executive Director, is an expert in the field of early care and education systems and program development. NACCRRA's Board of Directors, composed of experienced and knowledgeable professionals across the country, guides the organization's national child care efforts.