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Opening A Child Care Business

If you are interested in opening your own child care business, please contact Community Care Licensing at (510) 622-2602, or one of the child care resource and referral services listed under "Child Care Referral Services" at right.

Child Care Referral Services

If you are looking for child care in Alameda County, please contact one of the following child care resource and referral services:

North County:
BANANAS Inc.
(510) 658-7353
http://www.bananasinc.org
South County:
Alameda Co. 4C's
(510) 582-2189
http://www.4c-alameda.org
East County:
Child Care Links
(925) 417-8733
http://www.childcarelinks.org

The Alameda County Child Care Planning Council advises and makes recommendations to policymakers to ensure that all children and families have access to quality child care that educates children and enriches their lives.

The vision of the Alameda County Child Care Planning Council is to be a guiding force for excellence in the care and education of all children and to be regularly sought out for our expertise by local, state and national decision makers.

Planning Council Meetings

Planning Council meetings are open to the general public and all those who have an interest in child care.

Next meeting:

Thursday, September 2, 2010 - State Contractors Group/CEL Collaborative
Monday, September 6, 2010 - Public Policy Committee
Thursday, September 16, 2010 - Early Care & Education Committee

Recruiting New Steering Committee Members

The Alameda County Child Care Planning Council is currently recruiting nominees for new Steering Committee members. If you would like to apply for a position on the Steering Committee, please read the instructions on the first page of the application, complete the second page of the application and mail or fax it with your application statement to the address included in the instructions, or e-mail it back by the September 3, 2010 deadline for submissions.

Steering Committee Application *(PDF - 225 kB)

Statement on High Quality ECE Principles and Standards

The Alameda County Child Care Planning Council adopted the following statement on quality early care and education on September 18th as a vision of excellence and a process guide for ECE programs and the ECE community. Learn more... *(PDF - 171 kB)

Culturally Responsive Early Care and Education!

The Planning Council, in partnership with the Early Care and Education committee, is pleased to release the "Statement on Culturally Responsive Early Care and Education." This statement outlines our underlying values and beliefs about the need for culturally responsive care and education, as well as specific strategies to help programs and educators prepare to embrace our increasingly diverse student and family population.
Learn more... *(PDF - 92 kB)

New List of Early Care and Education Acronyms 2010

Our field often uses a multitude of acronyms. This document has recently been updated and a few more acronyms have been added to the list. Please check this out and use it as your handy guide for all your acronym needs. click here.

Green Child Care

The Planning Council has centralized some free or low cost resources and information to help child care programs address environmental health issues in their buildings and operations, including a Green Care checklist, recent environmental related laws, and searchable databases for non-toxic toys and art supplies. Learn more...

Inclusive Child Care

New 2009 versions! The Top 8 Questions Providers Ask About Inclusive Child Care document was created by the Committee on Special Needs. NOTE: Spanish and Chinese versions are also available.
Learn more...

Training and Consultation Resource Guide

The Child Care Planning Council, in partnership with the California School-Age Consortium and First 5 Alameda County is offering this Training and Consultation Resource Guide for early childhood programs seeking trainers and consultants whose expertise in the early care and education field can support agencies in meeting their professional development goals. It was created for the Early Care and Education Professional Development and Retention Project in Alameda County. For more information, please contact Nadiyah Taylor at (510) 208-9722 or e-mail

Training and Consultation Resource Guide *(PDF - 2.448 MB)
Training Topics *(PDF - 39 kB)
Consulting Topics *(PDF - 33 kB)
Trainer Language Options *(PDF - 42 kB)

The 2006 Alameda County Early Care and Education Needs Assessment Report

As part of the Early Care and Education For All planning process and as mandated by the state, this report describes the current status of child care supply and demand in Alameda County, and is intended to inform County child care policies and priorities with the most up-to-date county data. The report presents an overview of County demographics as well as child care-specific data, and analyses the supply, demand, costs, and experiences and challenges of special populations and the child care providers themselves. We also have profiles available for each city, as well as zip code for Berkeley, Fremont, Hayward and Oakland.

2006 Needs Assessment

Resources For Avoiding And Dealing With Foreclosure

Recognizing the impact of the economy and housing crisis on our community, the Child Care Planning Council has compiled a short reference document for how to both avoid and deal with looming foreclosure. Learn more... *(PDF - 144 kB)

Media Advocacy and Training Toolkit

The Child Care Planning Council in collaboration with Every Child Counts and the Family Child Care Coalition, is pleased to release this Media and Advocacy Training Toolkit. This toolkit was created as a resource for family child care providers to encourage providers to engage in media and community advocacy on behalf of the family child care industry and family child care providers in Alameda County. Learn more...

* Portable Document Format (PDF) file requires the free Adobe Reader.