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Infant and Toddlers

  1. First Steps - Infant/Toddler Initiative -
    Information at OCCRRA.org - key word Infant & Toddler Initiative
  2. First Steps Report
  3. Ohio's Infant & Toddler Guidelines 
  4. Infant & Toddler Guidelines Posters
  5. Infant & Toddler Standards of Care & Teaching

Preschool Standards & Guidelines

  1. Ohio's Early Learning Content Standards 
  2. Early Learning Program Guidelines      

Schoolage Standards & Guidelines

  1. Ohio's K-12 Parent Guides for Standards
  2. Ohio's Core Knowledge & Competencies for Afterschool Professionals (AS CKC)
  3. Quality Guidelines for Ohio's Afterschool Programs
     

Health and Safety Resources
  1. AAP Healthy Child Care America
  2. Consumer Product Safety Commission - latest recall notices
  3. Handwashing Guidance 
  4. Health and Safety E-News - Sign up to receive the Health and Safety E-news for Caregivers
  5. H1N1 (Swine Flu) Click here for a resource page dedicated to H1N1 in the child care setting

Healthy Kids Healthy Future

  1. Healthy Kids Healthy Future website
  2. Let's Move Child Care Flyer

Partnerships

  1. Ohio Professional Development Registry
  2. OCCRRA - Ohio Child Care Resource and Referral Association
  3. T.E.A.C.H. Early Childhood ® Ohio  - Scholarship program for early care & education teachers and family child care providers  
  4. Ohio Core Body of Knowledge and Competencies for Early Childhood Professionals
  5. Healthy Child Care Ohio
  6. Internal Revenue Service - click here for a page of links to Small Business Tax Information from the  IRS

Scholarship Program for NAEYC Accreditation Fees
          Click here for more information and to download the application

Listing of Licensed Child Care Centers - a text file listing of ODJFS licensed centers

     

 
To report Child Care Fraud

If you have knowledge that a recipient of  child care has committed fraud in order to qualify for these benefits and you would like to report it, please contact the county department of job and family services in the county where the recipient is residing. The number can be found in the phone book under County Government.
If you are unable to locate the number, please call the ODJFS General Information Customer Service number at (877) 852-0010 and they will provide you the number of the county department of job and family services.
The number can also be found on the internet at http://jfs.ohio.gov/  On this page, scroll down the right side to For More Info and click on County Agency Directory then click on the county to obtain the phone number.
 
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