The Child Care Resource & Referral of Southeast Georgia serves the following counties in Region 5:

Appling, Bacon, Brantley, Bryan, Bulloch, Burke, Camden, Candler, Charlton, Chatham, Clinch, Columbia, Echols, Effingham, Emanuel, Evans, Glynn, Jeff Davis, Jenkins, Johnson, Laurens, Liberty, Long, McIntosh, Montgomery, Pierce, Richmond, Screven, Tattnall, Toombs, Treutlen, Ware, Wayne and Wheeler  

Our Mission

    Early Start Child Care Resource & Referral is committed to the

promotion of high quality early care and learning in Southeast Georgia through education and collaborative efforts with families, early childhood professionals and members of the community.   

Our Vision

      All children have access to quality early care and learning

opportunities that will provide the foundation for a promising future.  

Our Services

For Parents:

• Free Child Care referrals, (not recommendations) for military families seeking child care, before and after school care and summer camps through Parent Referral Counseling services
• Parent and Consumer education 
• Inclusion services for families of children with special needs
• Quarterly parent newsletter  

 For Providers:

·         Quality improvement consultations to child care professionals on-site or via the telephone

·         State approved training opportunities

·         Career counseling

·         Training and technical assistance in caring for children with special needs

·         Support and assistance to child care programs seeking National child care accreditation

·         Mentoring Projects for family and group child care

     professionals pairing seasoned professionals with new

     business owners

·         Quarterly Newsletter

For Business and Community Partners:

·         Source for demographic and statistical information on

     child care and parent needs

·         Conducts seminars and public awareness activities in the

     community to inform the public about quality child care

     and child care options

·         Fostering community solutions through community agency participation 

Announcements

1. Due to the restructuring of the CCR&Rs, there will no longer be a Lending Library that will be open to providers and families for the checking out of materials. For more information please call 912.443.3011     

      2.  Maclaren USA Recalls Strollers Following Fingertip Amputations

    3.  All Child Care Providers complete our Regional Survey to be

        entered in a drawing to win free participation in a CCR&R of

        Southeast GA training conference.  

    4.  New adopted Rule Revisions for Child Care Providers

    5.  Press Release- Bright from the Start warns of phony Child Care

        employment ads.

Child Care Resource and Referral of Southeast Georgia is funded,

 in part, by Bright from the Start: Georgia Department of Early Care

and Learning Federal Child Care & Development Block Grant Funds.