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The National Child Care Information Center (NCCIC) is a national clearinghouse and technical assistance center linking parents, providers, policy-makers, researchers, and the public to early care and education information.
 Who NCCIC Serves
NCCIC responds to requests from parents, child care providers and other early education professionals, researchers, policy-makers, national organizations, businesses, and the general public. NCCIC provides technical assistance and training to States, Territories, and Tribes.
NCCIC Services
NCCIC provides responds to information requests and provides technical assistance through a variety of avenues, including:
Partnerships
NCCIC partners with the Child Care Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (ACF), U.S. Regional Offices to promote children's learning by improving the quality of early care and education. NCCIC is a member of the Child Care Bureau's Child Care Technical Assistance Network (CCTAN) to address the needs of States, Territories, and Tribes administering the Child Care and Development Fund.
Question and Answer Services
NCCIC staff research your questions and connect you with information on various child care topics. Information is provided free. Topics include:
NCCIC Online Library
NCCIC's Online Library, is the largest collection of summaries and links to full-text publications about child care and early childhood education. Search thousands of resources and publications containing summaries, availability information and links to full text documents when available. View customized quick searches to New Acquisitions and Recursos Seleccionados en Español (Selected Resources in Spanish).
Technical Assistance and Training to States
NCCIC works closely with ACF Regional Offices to provide technical assistance and training for States through a network of State Technical Assistance Specialists. NCCIC provides technical assistance through on-site visits, individual and group consultations, research, written materials and conference and meeting support.
NCCIC recently launched the Partnerships, Alliances, and Coordination
Techniques (PACT) initiative, which provides training and technical assistance
on partnership issues to State, Territory, and Tribal policy-makers.
Conference And Meeting Support
NCCIC provides information resources and publications for conference or meeting. For selected national meetings, NCCIC assists in planning, organizes resource areas, and provides speakers and facilitators.
NCCIC Publications
NCCIC develops and disseminates the quarterly Child Care Bulletin—available in English and Spanish—a 50-state summary of State child care plans and policies, and other publications on key child care issues.
NCCIC Publications Copyright Policy
Copyright is a form of protection provided by the laws of the United States (title 17, U.S. Code) to the authors of "original works of authorship," including literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, and other intellectual works. This protection is available to both published and unpublished materials.
NCCIC documents and publications are not copyrighted and, therefore, are considered to be in the public domain. Feel free to print out, copy or distribute any pages of our Web site that you find helpful. You are free to copy or distribute these documents. Documents created by NCCIC may be copied in their entirety, but may not be modified without the written permission of NCCIC.
Unless otherwise noted, all material from NCCIC may be distributed freely for educational purposes. If you wish to mirror, reproduce, republish, redistribute, or translate any of this material, please use appropriate citation, including the URL. Please send us an e-mail at info@nccic.org to explain how you are using the material, including the size of your intended audience.
Other documents linked to from NCCIC.org are the intellectual property of the authors or publishers of the materials and are protected under copyright law. Permission to reproduce the materials for purposes other than private study, scholarship, or teaching must be sought from the copyright holder.
How to contact us
National Child Care Information Center
10530 Rosehaven St., Suite 400
Fairfax, VA 22030
Phone: (800) 616-2242
Fax: (800) 716-2242
TTY: (800) 516-2242
World Wide Web: http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov
Email NCCIC: info@nccic.org
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