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CCTAN Partner Projects

Research Connections is part of the Child Care Technical Assistance Network (CCTAN). The Child Care Bureau developed the CCTAN to support the work of States, Territories, and Tribes administering the Child Care and Development Fund.

Afterschool Investments
The Afterschool Investments project provides technical assistance to support program development and administration on issues related to improving after-school initiatives in the states.
 

Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning logo Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning
The Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning is a collaborative initiative of the Child Care and Head Start Bureaus. This five-year project is a national center created to help Head Start and other child care programs identify and implement practices that have demonstrated effectiveness in promoting children's social and emotional competence.
 

Child Care Aware
Child Care Aware is a national toll-free child care consumer telephone hotline and website. The mission of Child Care Aware is to ensure that families have access to accurate, useful information about finding child care. Through Child Care Aware, families are linked to their local, community-based child care resource and referral program, and consumer education materials.
 

Child Care Information Systems Technical Assistance Project
The Child Care Information Systems Technical Assistance Project supports states, territories, and tribal organizations in collecting, managing, and reporting child care data.
 

Communications Management Center
The Communications Management Center coordinates and supports national and regional child care conferences for state, territorial, and tribal administrators.
 

 

Healthy Child Care America logo Healthy Child Care America
The Healthy Child Care America campaign is a collaborative effort of health professionals, child care professionals, families, and other services working in partnership to improve the health and well-being of children in child care settings.
 

National Child Care Information Center logo National Child Care Information Center
The National Child Care Information Center (NCCIC), in collaboration with the ERIC Clearinghouse on Early Childhood and Elementary Education, is the primary clearinghouse to support the development of expertise and the dissemination of child care information. NCCIC is a partner in QUILT: Quality in Linking Together, an initiative to support and increase partnerships between child care, Head Start, and other early education programs.
 

National Infant and Toddler Child Care Initiative logo National Infant and Toddler Child Care Initiative
The National Infant and Toddler Child Care Initiative is a project of CCB that is designed to work collaboratively with CCDF state child care administrators to help advance system improvements in infant and toddler child care.
 

Tribal Child Care Technical Assistance Center logo Tribal Child Care Technical Assistance Center
The Tribal Child Care Technical Assistance Center provides targeted technical assistance services to more than 500 tribes supported by CCDF.