Child Care
Make informed decisions when selecting child care for your most precious assets.
For information about licensing and training for child care providers, see Training & CEUs: Child Care.
UF/IFAS Publications
- Child Care Safety
- Helping Your Child Adjust to Child Care
- Mom, I'm Bored!
- Preparing Your Child for Child Care
- Quality Child Care
Other Sites
- Babysitter's Training Course--American Red Cross
- Child Care--MedlinePlus
- Child Care 101--NACCRRA
- Office of Child Care--U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- Child Care for Children with Special Needs--AAP
- Child Care Information--DCF
- Child Care Training Requirements--DCF
- Choosing Child Care--Florida Children's Forum
- Day Care: Choosing a Good Center--American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)
- Finding Quality Child Care: A Guide for Fathers--National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies (NACCRRA)
- Five Steps to Finding Summer Care--NACCRRA
- Healthy Child Care America--AAP
- How Asthma-friendly is Your Child-care Setting? Checklist--National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
- How Asthma-friendly is Your Child-care Setting? Checklist--National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (en español)
- Individual States' Child Care Licensure Regulations--NRC
- Laws and Requirements--DCF
- Making Child Care Provided by Relatives Work for Your Family--NRC (pdf)
- National Association for the Education of Young Children
- National Network for Child Care
- Selecting a Baby Sitter--Child Development Institute
- State Child Care Home Pages--National Child Care Information and Technical Assistance Center (NCCIC)
- State Licensing Information--NACCRRA
- The Super Sitter--U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (pdf)
- Types of Care--NACCRRA
- Return to Children
General Resources
UF/IFAS Sites
- Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences
- Family Album Radio
- Florida After School Enrichment Project
- Food Science and Human Nutrition Department
- School IPM
- Young Investor Program
UF/IFAS Publications
State & Federal Agencies
- FirstGov for Kids
- Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF)
- National Institutes of Health
- Nutrition.gov
- U.S. Administration for Children and Families
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Organizations & Associations
- American Academy of Pediatrics
- American Public Health Association
- International Parenting Association
- National Association for the Education of Young Children
- Even Start
- National PTA
Other Sites & Publications
- Child Care Aware
- CYFERnet
- Florida Electronic Library
- National Association for the Education of Young Children
- National Black Child Development Institute
- National Child Care Information Center
- National Fatherhood Intiative
- National Network for Child Care
- National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care and Early Education
- Parents as Teachers National Center
- USAA Educational Foundation
