Quality Child Care Checklist

Types of Child Care

Finding Quality
Child Care

Financial Assistance
and Affordable Care

Child Care for Children
with Special Needs

Tips for Parents

Finding Quality Child Care

Children’s Resource and Referral of Santa Barbara County (CRR) offers a list of child care providers in Santa Barbara County.

• Call for a list of licensed early care and education programs, (805) 925-1989, or
• Go to http://sbfcc.org/index.php/site/parents/
• Talk with a Child Care Referral Counselor for more help and information

Be sure to visit programs and ask yourself:

What do you see?

What do you hear?

How do you feel?

If you were a child would you want to be here?

Remember, no matter what kind of child care you are considering, use the Quality Child Care Checklist when you visit.

Other resources

• National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)- search for Accredited Programs
• National Association for Family Child Care (NAFCC)- search for Accredited Programs
• SBParent.com Child Care and Preschool resource