4C Council Programs

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4C Child Care Child Development Centers

Centralized Eligibility List

Child Care Referral

Early Care and Education Resource Library
Providing educational supports and materials to the early education workforce
The 4C Council has 3 resources that professionals in the field can access to en-rich their child care programs.

• The ECE Library allows parents and providers to check out book, videos and other educational material free of charge.
• The Resource Center is open to child care providers who want to in-crease the quality of their care by creating educational curriculum for the children in their care. Die-cut machines, laminating machines and even workshop are available so that the providers can incorporate school-readiness activities in their child care.
• The Toy Lending Library houses hundred of toys, games and activities, available for checkout by parents and child care providers

Family Health Insurance Enrollment
So that no child goes without needed health care
The 4C Council supports our overall community initiative to insure all children have health insurance. Staff educates families about their health insurance op-t ions and assists the income-eligible families in their enrollment under the Santa Clara Family Health Plan, Valley Medical Center, Blue Cross and Kaiser Permanente Health Plans.

Health and Safety Program
To insure the child care workforce is trained in First Aid and CPR
This 4C project, with support of the CA Dept of Education, provides cost of training reimbursement to licensed or licensed exempt child care providers. Over 1,500 providers in the early care and education workforce have benefited from this 4c program.

• Application for Health and Safety Training Reimbursement
• Health and Safety Training Calendar

Family Friends and Neighbors Child Care Program
Supporting family friends and neighbors to provide safe and quality care giving
Five hundred friends and neighbors who provide care for someone’s child(ren) will obtain free training, technical assistance and support from the 4C Council this year. Learning opportunities include: Health & Safety, Discipline & Guidance, Playing is Learning and Family Literacy. The focus of this program is to build strong relationships in the community and to provide essential training to the non licensed/informal caregivers in the community.

Parent Education

Parent Voices
The 4C Council sponsors the Santa Clara County Chapter of Parent Voices. The statewide effort under auspices of the CA R and R Network organizes parents and community advocacy campaigns to increase funding, improve quality, and provide better access to early care and education services for ALL the communities’ children. Parent Voices accomplishes its goals through trainings, regular meetings, special events, media, and parent participation in the political process.

Resource Center

School Readiness and Early Education Services
Supporting School Readiness
The 4C Council provides school readiness and early education services through:

• Comprehensive services with 70 family child care providers and 180 families participating in our Family Day Care Network Program
• Administration of three Child Development Centers located in under-served areas of San Jose and Morgan Hill. The Orchard Early Learning Center, serving children infant – school age, is located on site at Orchard Elementary school in San Jose. Our State Preschool, serving pre-kindergarten children, is located in the Willow Glen area of San Jose, and our Morgan Hill Center is located in a low income housing center in Morgan Hill.

Stand For Children Radio and TV Programs
The 4C Council communicates and provides information to its broad constituency of parents, providers and community early care and education activists through its regular broadcasting of the Stand for Children radio (KKUP 91.5 FM) and cable TV (Channel 15-A) programs and its maintenance of a 4C Website (www.4C.org).

Trustline
To insure safety and well being of children in child care
4C’s provides the only authorized screening program of in-home caregivers in Santa Clara County, with access to fingerprint records at the CA Dept of Justice and FBI. Program services include fingerprinting and processing the applications of licensed and unlicensed caregivers for clearance from the statewide database of providers that have cleared criminal background record checks.

4C Council Subsidized Programs

Subsidized Child Care Services
Helping Families to achieve Self Sufficiency and to support families to hope, learn and succeed

The 4C Council helps low income families pay for the cost of childcare and early education for their children; infants to 12 years of age in the CalWorks, Family Child Care Network and Alternative Payment Subsidy Programs administered by the agency. Over 6,000 children and 3,500 families annually benefit from this program which includes:

1. Guidance and support from case managers and community partners to working towards self sufficiency.
2. Parent education in child development, literacy, advocacy and school readiness.
3. Childcare provider professional development for licensed caregivers and training for exempt from license caregivers
4. Child Care Provider payment services.
5. Ongoing evaluation/assessment of children in accord with California Department of Education Desired Results framework. (Network Program)

• Cal WORKs (Stage II and Stage III)
• Family Child Care Network
• California Alternative Payment Program
• California Center Based Program
• California State Preschool Program
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