Child Care Coordinating Council of the North Country

Child Care programs: these programs provide Child Care resource and referral services including: recruitment of new Child Care providers, training and professional development programs for providers, helping parents find appropriate Child Care and helping the business community address the Child Care needs of its workforce. In 2023, the Council served upwards of 166 Child Care professionals with 37 professional development training programs and helped 314 parents find Child Care. Grant funders assisted 125 Child Care programs apply for two rounds of workforce retention grants.

Parenting and family programs: these programs provide primary prevention of Child abuse throughout franklin and clinton counties. This is accomplished by supporting families at resource centers so that parents can raise healthy well-adjusted children. Services include: parenting education, support groups, play groups and story times. Additional programs focus on supporting kinship caregivers, families facing issues of custody and co- parenting and parents with children with special needs. In 2023, approximately 968 parents and their 1,013 children participated in Council programs over 33,000 times.