Child Care Technical Assistance Partners (CCTAN)

### **Afterschool Investments** 

Telephone: (202) 587-1000 E-mail: <afterschool@financeproject.org>
Internet: <http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/afterschool/>

The Afterschool Investments project provides technical assistance to
support program development and administration on issues related to
afterschool initiatives. The project produces and disseminates
information, tools, and materials for supporting and sustaining programs
and creating successful partnerships between CCDF grantees and the many
other public and private sector partners responsible for improving
after-school opportunities in the States. The contractors are The
Finance Project in partnership with the National Governors Association.

# Contractor: The Finance Project, Project Director: Barbara Langford (phone: 202-587-1000)

# **Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning**

Telephone: (615) 322-8150 E-mail: <ml.hemmeter@vanderbilt.edu> Internet:
[http://www.vanderbilt.edu/csefel/](http://www.vanderbilt.edu/csefel/ )

**GRANTEE:** University of Illinois (by Cooperative Agreement from the
Child Care and Head Start Bureaus).

This five-year project will support a national center to help Head Start
and Child Care programs identify and implement practices with
demonstrated effectiveness in promoting children's social and emotional
competence. The Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early
Learning is a collaborative initiative of the Child Care and Head Start
Bureaus. The goals of the Center are designed to strengthen the capacity
of Child Care and Head Start to improve the social and emotional
outcomes for young children. The University of Illinois will partner
with a consortium of universities and early childhood organizations
including the University of Colorado at Denver, the University of South
Florida, the University of Connecticut, Tennessee Voices for Children,
and Education Development Center to carry out the goals and activities
of the Center.

Contractor: Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early
Learning, Principal Investigator: Mary Louise Hemmeter, Ph.D.

## Child Care and Early Education Research Connections

## Telephone: (646) 284-9615 E-mail: [**mailto:kreader@nccp.org**](mailto:kreader@nccp.org) Internet: [**http://www.childcareresearch.org/**](http://www.childcareresearch.org/)

## The Child Care and Early Education Research Connections (Research Connections) is a web-based, interactive database of research documents and public use data sets for conducting secondary analyses on topics related to early care and education. This project was launched in 2004 through a cooperative agreement with the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) at Columbia University and the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) at the University of Michigan. Research Connections conducts literature reviews; develops and disseminates materials designed to improve child care policy research; provides technical assistance to researchers and policy makers; conducts data analysis workshops; synthesizes findings into policy research briefs; and provides support to the Child Care Policy Research Consortium.

## Grantee: The National Center for Children in Poverty. Project Director: Dr. J. Lee Kreader (phone: 646-284-9625)

## Child Care Aware^TM^

Telephone: (800) 424-2246 E-mail: <Info@childcareaware.org> Internet:
<http://www.childcareaware.org/>

The National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies
(NACCRRA), through a cooperative agreement with the CCB, receives
funding to operate Child Care Aware-a national toll-free child care
consumer telephone hotline and Web-site. 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.

Grantee: National Association of Child Care Resource & Referral Agencies
(NACCRRA)

Project Director: Ollie Smith (phone: 703-341-4142)

## Child Care Information Systems Technical Assistance Project (CCISTAP)

Telephone: (877) 249-9117 E-mail:
[CCISTAP@childcaredata.org](../ccarc@childcaredata.org). Internet:
[http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/ccb/ta/CCISTAP/index.htm](http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/ccb/ta/ccarc/index.htm)

The Child Care Information Systems Technical Assistance Project
(CCISTAP) supports state, territory, and tribal grantees, and the
Central and Regional Office Federal staff in collecting, managing,
analyzing, and reporting child care data. CCISTAP support falls into
four major categories: systems development, CCB web support, statistical
analysis and report generation, and provision of technical assistance
(TA). The primary focus of technical assistance, provided to CCDF
grantees through the Child Care Automation Resource Center (CCARC), is
on building the capacity of information systems at the local level to
improve the quality of administrative data. TA is provided through a
toll-free help line, software utilities for data providers, delivery of
training at Regional and National conferences, and customized on-site
technical assistance. Contractor: General Dynamics Information
Technology, Project Director: Helen Papadopoulos (phone: 301-692-0586)

## 

## Communications Management Center

Telephone: 240-399-8725 E-mail: <ccbcmc@acf.hhs.gov> Internet:
<http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/ccb/ta/conf/index.htm>

## The Communications Management Center coordinates and supports national and regional child care conferences for State, Territorial and Tribal Administrators. The Center supports national leadership forums on critical child care issues, such as Child Care for Infants and Toddlers and Child Care Issues in the Hispanic Community; the annual CCB State Administrators meeting; and regional conferences throughout the country in every ACF Region.

## Contractor: BLH Technologies Inc., Project Director: Rose Salton (phone: 240-399-8725)

## 

## Healthy Child Care America

Telephone: (888) 227-5409 E-mail:
[childcare@aap.org](../childcare@aap.org) Internet:
<http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/hcca>

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. The goals of the campaign are to
provide technical assistance to assist States, territories, tribes, and
communities in developing and strengthening linkages between child care
providers, health professionals, and families. These partnerships ensure
that children are cared for in healthy and nurturing environments and
have access to necessary immunizations, health screenings, and other
health and social services. The Healthy Child Care America campaign is
sponsored by CCB and the Maternal and Child Health Bureau and is
coordinated in partnership with the American Academy of Pediatrics
(AAP).

Grantee: American Academy of Pediatrics, Project Director: Jeanne
Anderson (phone: 847-434-7132)

## National Child Care Information Center (NCCIC)

## Telephone: (800) 616-2242 E-mail: [**mailto:info@nccic.org**](mailto:info@nccic.org) Internet: [**http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/**](http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/) 

## NCCIC is the primary clearinghouse to support the development of expertise and the dissemination of child care information. An extensive database of child care information is maintained, and resources are disseminated via information and referral services, an Internet Web-site, publication of the Child Care Bulletin, periodic mailings, resource rooms at conferences, and presentations at meetings and conferences. A network of State technical assistance specialists, working with the ACF regional offices, provides onsite consulting support to State grantees. Contractor: Caliber, an ICF International Company. Project Director: Julie Shuell (phone: 800-616-2242)

## National Infant & Toddler Child Care Initiative Telephone: (202) 857-2673 E-mail: [**mailto:itcc@zerotothree.org**](mailto:itcc@zerotothree.org) Web: [**http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/itcc**](http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/itcc)

## The National Infant & Toddler Child Care Initiative works collaboratively with CCDF administrators and other partners to move forward system initiatives to improve the quality and supply of infant and toddler child care. Through Learning Communities and other approaches, the Initiative works with States and Territories to develop a deeper knowledge about specific elements of the early care and education system that supports quality infant and toddler child care. The Initiative collects and disseminates information on infant and toddler child care supply, investments, and initiatives; produces materials and resources; and responds to requests for information and technical assistance related to infant and toddler child care. Contractor: ZERO TO THREE, Project Director: Karen Heying, Telephone: (202) 857-2673

**Tribal Child Care Technical Assistance Center (TriTAC)**

Telephone:(800) 388-7670 E-mail: [tritac2@aol.com](../tritac2@aol.com)
Internet:
[http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/tribal](http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/tribal/)\
The Tribal Child Care Technical Assistance Center provides targeted
technical assistance services to more than 500 tribes supported by the
Child Care and Development Fund. Activities include a toll-free
information and referral line; maintenance of a Web-site with
information on tribal child care programs, including promising practices
and available resources; an annual national tribal child care
conference; and cluster trainings.

Contractor: Native American Management Services, Project Director: Linda
Kills Crow (phone: 580-762-8850)