Community Groups Rest Stop
Welcome to the Community Groups Rest Stop of the Iowa Roadmap for Child Care Success. We’ve named it that because it’s the perfect place to get what you need before you get back on the road to child care solutions in your area.
You’ve landed here because, based on your responses, you help make child care solutions happen through resources and funding. We think these resources will be most helpful to you, but you are welcome to peruse the other action pages as well. (Looking for a feasibility study roadmap? You’ll find that on our Resources Page)
Iowa Health & Human Services
If you are looking for:
- How the state has invested in child care
- Information because you have employees who may be eligible for child care assistance
- Rules and regulations for child care providers
Child Care | Health & Human Services
Iowa Health & Human Services regulates child care through licensing and quality rating programs to ensure safe, high-quality care. Providers must meet health and safety standards, complete mandatory training, and undergo background checks, while the department investigates concerns as needed.
Iowa Child Care Resource & Referral
If you are looking for:
- A way to stay informed with data
- How to learn more about your current landscape in your community and/or county
- Resources on child care solutions
- A way to stay informed with data
- How to learn more about your current landscape in your community and/or county
- Resources on child care solutions
- Technical assistance to survey your workforce
Community Development Specialists
Child Care Resource & Referral (CCR&R) supports quality child care in Iowa by providing training, professional development, and consultation to child care providers while helping them meet state regulations. CCR&R also assists families in finding quality child care through free, confidential referrals and collaborates with communities to improve child care access.
Iowa Association for the Education of Young Children
If you are looking for:
- TEACH and WAGE$ information
www.iowaaeyc.org
Iowa AEYC promotes high-quality early learning for each and every child, birth through age 8, by connecting practice, policy, and research. We advance a diverse, dynamic early childhood profession and support all who care for, educate, and work on behalf of young children.
Iowa Women's Foundation
If you are looking for:
- Information on community child care solutions across the state.
- Technical assistance to create child care solutions for your community
- Child care grant opportunities
Child Care Solutions for Businesses | Iowa Women's Foundation
The Iowa Women’s Foundation (IWF) has a primary focus on shattering the barriers to economic self-sufficiency for Iowa’s women and girls. We do this because when Iowa’s women and girls are successful, our businesses thrive, our communities flourish, and Iowa wins.
Iowa Economic Development Authority (IEDA)
If you are looking for:
- Tools and Resources to grow your business
- Tax credit resources
- Innovative funding ideas
https://opportunityiowa.gov/
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First Children’s Finance
If you are looking for:
- Business and financial training
- Grants or loans to build capacity
- Market analysis and strategic planning
- Help to create marketing strategies
- Loans for communities or projects to expand capacit
For Communities - First Children's Finance
Founded in 1991, First Children’s Finance addresses the business and finance needs of child care in three different ways: building the financial sustainability of child care entrepreneurs, partnering with communities to preserve and grow their child care supply, and influencing state and federal systems to provide supports and investments needed to sustain child care businesses.
Coming Soon!
Statewide CSF graphic
If you are:
- Trying to create more child care spaces in your community
- Advocating to increase child care wages at the child cares in your Community
Child Care Solution Funds
If you are:
- Trying to create more child care spaces in your community
- Advocating to increase child care wages at the child cares in your Community
