Supporting child care providers & FAMILIES
For nearly 40 years, Quality Care for Children (QCC) has worked to ensure Georgia’s infants and young children reach their full potential. QCC helps child care programs provide nutritious meals and educational care to young children so they are ready for success in school and helps parents access quality child care so that they can attend college or succeed in the workplace. Learn more →
CARE PROVIDERS
Training
Quality Rated Support
Business Resources
GEORGIA PARENTS
Child Care Referrals
Parenting Tips
Tuition Assistance
HEALTH & NUTRITION
Child Care Food Program
Summer Food Program
Farm to ECE Program
Why our work IS CRITICAL
EARLY BRAIN DEVELOPMENT
90% of a child’s brain is “hardwired” before the age of 5, setting the groundwork for future learning
INCREASING COST OF CHILD CARE
40% of a low-income family’s budget can easily be spent on child care (average cost in Atlanta is $9,284)
CHILDHOOD HUNGER & POVERTY
26% of children in GA live in food insecure homes, and more than 24% live below the poverty level
EARLY LITERACY GAP
By age 3, there is a 30 million word gap between children from the wealthy and poor families.
ANNUAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS
“QCC believes that all children, regardless of race, gender, or economic background, deserve high-quality early learning experiences. Creating an environment for quality care is no easy task: child care is expensive, providers are poorly paid, and parents, faced with an urgent need for child care, often have limited choices. Partnering with leading child care experts and organizations since 1979, QCC overcomes these challenges by providing best practices and invaluable training and support to child care programs in Georgia, as well as guidance and referrals to parents seeking care.”
UPCOMING EVENTS
Quality Care for Children is going “over the hill” and we want YOU to join us in celebrating at our 40th Birthday Party on Thursday, February 21st at the SweetWater Brewery Woodlands Barrel Room!
Social Media
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UPDATES from our latest newsletter
Carter's Volunteer Day
More than 100 Carter’s volunteers took time out of their day to create Farm to ECE resources for child care programs including garden-themed sensory boxes, felt story boards for the book “Growing Vegetable Soup,” and vegetable flash cards! View pictures
Early Start Breakfast
This year’s event raised more than $90,000 to support QCC’s critical programs that help Georgia's children and families. The event brought together early supporters and featured a keynote address from Alicia Philipp, Early Advocate Award presentation to Jen Bennecke, and remarks from Boost Scholarship recipients. View pictures
Farm to ECE Gardens
Just in time for spring, QCC has been busy helping child care programs get their gardens ready and launch their Farm to ECE programs! To help kick off the season, QCC also provided all 18 Farm to ECE programs with child-size gardening tools, a composter, a root-vue planter, and a set of farm to early childhood education themed books.
Provider Tax Prep Help
Taxes for any child care program can be confusing and overwhelming. That’s why we were excited to bring in the experts from Child Care Cooperative to present “Taxes 101: How to Avoid Issues with the IRS” at the monthly Director to Director meetings as part of QCC’s Georgia Alliance for Quality Child Care.
ECE Conferences
QCC staff have been busy learning and sharing best practices from other ECE leaders throughout the country at many conferences this spring. Already this year, staff have participated in the National Head Start Association Conference, National Farm to School Network Conference, Georgia Family Child Care Conference, National CACFP Sponsors Association Conference, and Child Care Aware of America’s Symposium.