is a statewide organization for Family Child Care Providers. Along with our provider members, we also have many food program sponsors, resource and referral agencies, SRS area office staff and local health agency personnel that receive our mailings and information. They show their support for CCPC in a variety of ways. Our Board members are all family child care providers who are committed to promoting our profession and the quality of care offered in family child care homes across our state. We strive to help individuals deal with issues that commonly affect the family child care provider. We also recognize the rewards and joy that come from knowing that we actually made a difference in the life of a child or family. Those joys and rewards are what keep us in the business year after year.
CCPC members are kept abreast of child care news, including legislation which affects child care,tax updates,training programs and seminars. We support professional and personal growth and development by supporting Accreditation through the National Association for Family Child Care. Each year, scholarship monies are allocated in our budget to help our members with the cost of the Accreditation, and we hold a child care seminar each spring to provide quality training opportunities.
One of the most important task CCPC does is our work to promote the status of our profession in the eyes of all proiders, the public, private and government sectors. We send representatives to planning sessions with state agencies, resource and referral agencies and other child advocacy groups. We "speak" for the family cild care profession. We educate all involved parties about the importance of quality care and the valuable role family child care is playing in the early care and education of young children in our state.
CCPC also works to broden community awareness by participating in events like the National Week of the Young Child and Kansas Family Child Care Week and we use media opportunities to educate parents and the public in general about the importance of choosing regulated child care.
