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Child Care Services Association is working every day to ensure that
children are receiving high-quality child care. Please join us in our effort to
give every child the best start in life. Your contribution will help us
continue our work and expand our services for children, families and
early childhood programs throughout the Triangle, state and nation.
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Jim & Carolyn Hunt Child Care Resource Center
Now Open in Durham |
The Jim and Carolyn Hunt Child Care Resource Center is now open in Durham. The Center, located at 1201 S. Briggs Ave., is home to Child Care Services Association’s (CCSA) Child Care Resource and Referral division, Durham’s Partnership for Children
(Smart Start and More at Four) and Durham’s Alliance for Child Care Access, which provides child care subsidies to low-income, working families.
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Child care providers, families and child care advocates now have a one-stop resource center for all of their child care needs. In this one center, families can receive free referrals to high-quality child care facilities as well as information on child care scholarships. Child care providers can visit CCSA’s Early Education Library and take home tools to improve the quality of care they are providing. And child care directors can receive technical assistance that will help them increase the number of stars on their child care license.
The Center is also home to CCSA’s Good Beginnings Infant-Toddler Classroom. The model classroom provides high-quality infant-toddler care and education as measured by 5 stars and national accreditation standards. Equipped with real-time observation cameras, the classroom will become a practicum site for prospective and current teachers working on their early childhood degrees at local colleges and universities.
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The Jim and Carolyn Hunt Child Care Resource Center will also house CCSA’s expanded nutrition program. The new commercial grade kitchen will produce over 1,000,000 meals a year for children in child care facilities in all three Triangle counties. This new program will triple the number of meals currently produced and allow for expansion into Durham and Wake counties.
To help establish the Jim and Carolyn Hunt Child Care Resource Center and catalyze community support, Jim Goodmon, CEO of Capitol Broadcasting Company, has issued a community challenge and agreed to donate $1, up to $200,000, for every $2 raised in support of the Center. “Capitol Broadcasting Company is supporting this effort because we believe child care is a critical part of our Region's infrastructure... like schools, roads and housing," Goodmon stated.
CCSA is extremely excited about the opportunity this building gives us to offer better and more integrated services for families and child care providers. With so many families in need of high-quality child care, it is imperative that we continue to improve the services we provide.
 To learn more about the campaign for the
Jim & Carolyn Hunt Child Care Resource Center, click here:
Jim & Carolyn Hunt Child Care Resource Center Information Packet & Pledge Form
(262KB PDF file | Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader - Download Now)
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To donate by mail, print this pledge form and send your check made payable to Child Care Services Association to:
Child Care Services Association
Attn: Development
P.O. Box 901
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
E-mail us or call and speak to Nicole Pride, Vice President of
Development & Communications, about other gift options:
(919) 967-3272
Thank you!
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How Child Care Services Association Makes a Difference
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 CCSA’s 2005-2006 annual report is now available.
The report, titled Weaving Services, Transforming Lives, highlights the benefits of integrating CCSA's programs and services. Testimonials from child care providers at First Presbyterian Day School in Durham are featured throughout the report and illustrate how CCSA's services are improving the
lives of child care workers and the children they care for.
Click here to view the report.
(6MB PDF file | Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader - Download Now)
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As an innovator and incubator for solutions to child care issues, we are proud to be a part of the many successes in making affordable, accessible, high-quality child care available to every family and young child. For over thirty years, CCSA has worked locally, statewide and nationally to fulfill this goal.
Last year alone Child Care Services Association…
- Assisted 4,695 families in the greater Triangle region of North Carolina in locating and securing high-quality child care.
- Helped more than 400 children in the Triangle from low-income families receive child care scholarships.
- Helped child care providers upgrade to a higher level of licensure, benefiting 2,459 children.
- Provided 4,387 child care professionals in North Carolina with a T.E.A.C.H. Early Childhood® Scholarship.
- Helped over 20,000 child care professionals in 22 states complete college coursework through implementing CCSA’s T.E.A.C.H. Early Childhood® Project.
- Informed policy and program decisions in North Carolina, Indiana, New Mexico and Virginia by conducting research studies on the child care workforce in those states.
Why Should You Care About Child Care?
Making the Investment
Child Care Services Association is a private, nonprofit organization. Our funding comes from many sources including government grants, corporate and foundation funders, United Way and other employee workplace campaigns, and individuals.
Please consider making a gift to support our work on behalf of children and their families. Your gift may support a scholarship so that a parent can start a new job, or so that a child care teacher can complete an early childhood education degree. These valuable scholarships and programs result in enormous benefits for children, families and the community.
Please help us make sure every child has a good start to lifelong learning in a safe, nurturing, quality child care environment.
Financial information about this organization and a copy of its license are available from the State Solicitation Licensing Branch at 1-888-830-4989. The license is not an endorsement by the State.
Note: This is not a secure web site. For your own protection, please do not e-mail us credit card information. We would be happy to accept your donation in person, by telephone or through the U.S. mail. Thank you. |
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