4C Council Programs

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4C Child Care Data Service (Child Care Supply/Demand Cost)

Child Care Initiative Project (CCIP)
Helping Family Child Care Providers succeed
The CCIP program is funded by a grant through the California Department of Education to increase the number of licensed, quality family child care providers in the county. About 100 individuals participate in our program each year.
• The basic thrust is to educate home based providers about the components of quality child care including health & safety, child development, food & nutrition, etc. Through outstanding programs and comprehensive support participants are retained in the child care field and serve as mentors to new participants. Our program has been recognized as a high quality/model program.
This program is designed to recruit, retain and train Santa Clara County family child care providers.

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.

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.

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.

Inclusion Lending Library

Job Bank
To help providers who are seeking to employ an assistant, the 4C Council enables you to post your job opening(s) on our Job Bank, which can be accessed at www.4c.org.

Nutrition, Education, and Child Care Provider Subsidies
Insuring sound nutrition necessary for school readiness and optimum health
The 4C Council provides nutrition education and then pays participating child care providers (family child care homes and Centers) for the cost of feeding U.S. D.A. approved meals to income-eligible children in their care. In 2003-2004, the agency paid out $1.6 million to feed nutritional meals to 4,600 children from 3,000 low-income families.

Professional Development for Child Care Professionals
To enhance the quality of care services available in our community and to sup-port the professional development of child care providers (both licensed and ex-empt from license /family friends and neighbors)
The Agency provides an array of educational opportunities. Last year 900 child care professionals participated in 4C sponsored early care and education events. A total of 8,519 education hours were obtained.

QELO (Quality Early Learning Opportunities)

Resource Center

Resource Library

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 Cable TV Programs and 4C Website
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).