A new prevention-based, consultative service at Child Care Council Inc. will help ensure children with disabilities have access to quality child care. Child Care Council’s special needs consultation service will equip caregivers with strategies and supports to reduce suspension and expulsion for young children with disabilities in child care. Built on relationship-based practices, the service […]
News & Events
New Service Aims to Reduce Child Care Suspensions, Expulsions of Children with Special Needs
February 13th, 2023Good News for Parents and Child Care
August 30th, 2022Good news for child care! Governor Kathy Hochul today, with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, launched a statewide multi-media campaign to help ensure eligible families access child care assistance. https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-hochul-launches-statewide-campaign-highlight-funding-child-care-providers-and
Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation
January 8th, 2021Register for this event today!
NYS Child Care Advocacy Tuesdays 2021
December 15th, 2020Next year, early childhood advocacy will be more necessary than ever to protect New York’s young children and families from budget cuts to programs they depend on – especially those crucial to Black and Brown communities disproportionately harmed by the ongoing pandemic. While the State Capitol may not be open to […]
Cares 3 Funding Available for Families
October 30th, 2020Access to affordable and safe child care is a barrier for working parents during the best of times, and even more so during a crisis. The CARES Child Care Scholarship will ensure that the children are protected and cared for as they continue to serve the public. Parent Application: English – https://forms.gle/Xj2Ec9AS5wq6rvSu6 Spanish – https://forms.gle/7AVngbms6kMufNrE8 […]
CARES 3 Reopening/Restructuring for Remote Learning and Temporary Operating Grant
October 1st, 2020Application Twenty million dollars is allocated to provide grants for closed child care programs to reopen or restructure under new guidelines for social distancing. This may cover partitions, technology to support remote learning, broadband access, and cleaning and classroom supplies. An additional $28.6 million will provide grants for child day care providers to pay for […]
Welcome Back!
August 11th, 2020Dear providers, I hope this email finds you well. I would also like to thank you for your commitment and perseverance in the last few months. Child Care Council is happy to announce we are starting to open to the community again. In September we are starting our classes, also we will start to see […]
Federal CARES Act Funding Available for Child Care Providers
June 26th, 2020Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced that $65 million in federal CARES Act funding is available for child care providers statewide through the New York Forward Child Care Expansion Incentive program. The funding available includes:• $20 million to assist childcare program with reopening and expansion of capacity by providing materials to support a more socially distant […]
Guidance Documents for Child Care
June 10th, 2020The Child Care Council, Inc. would like to share these important guidance documents created and circulated by the Department of Health and the Center for Disease Control. If we all do our part and follow these guidelines and safety requirements we will help mitigate the spread of COVID19 and other illnesses and communicable diseases. “INTERIM […]
Society Can Learn Much from Child Care Environments When it Comes to Racial Harmony
June 3rd, 2020Child care is a place of innocence, learning and development – as well as racial harmony. Children of all colors and backgrounds play together, learn together and make friendships. They don’t pay attention to skin color. Unfortunately, somehow that racial harmony and innocence too often gets lost among adults. The murder of George Floyd in […]
Child Care Council Names Jeffrey Pier Executive Director
May 22nd, 2020Pier succeeds CEO Barbara-Ann Mattle, who is retiring ROCHESTER, N.Y., May 22, 2020 – Jeffrey Pier has been named Child Care Council Inc.’s new executive director. He starts his new role on June 26. Pier comes to Child Care Council after serving as executive director of The Healing Connection, an eating-disorder treatment program for adolescents […]
Council CEO Barbara-Ann Mattle Retiring After More Than Three Decades
May 19th, 2020Child Care Council Inc. CEO Barbara-Ann Mattle announced today that she is retiring after 37 years in the role, effective June 30, 2020. The Council will soon announce her successor. During her tenure directing the Council’s operations, Barbara-Ann Mattle achieved great success in supporting child care development and in enhancing the quality of child care, […]
