Provider Services

The CocoKids provides free or low cost programs and services designed to support and empower child care providers so that children, families and communities benefit.

The Road to Quality initiative is at the heart of COCOKIDS’ efforts to improve the quality of care and early education for young children in our communities and to support child care providers in their training and professional development. Multi-faceted services are available to licensed child care centers and family child care homes to support their quality improvement, school readiness efforts and the success of their child care businesses.

Providing Care

• Providing Care
• Provider Assistance
• Providers Resources
• Provider Training
• Starting a Child Care Business
• Starting a Family Child Care Home
• Starting a Child Care Center

Child Care Fund

• Attendance Sheet

Training

• Classes & Workshops
• Health & Safety
• Conferences

Quality Improvement

• Quality Rating Improvement System (QRIS)
• Child Care Initiative Project (CCIP)

Special Needs

• Children With Special Needs in Child Care
• Inclusion Project
• Inclusion Forms
• Autism
• Disabilities Law
• Does a Child in Your Care Need Help?
• Lending Library
• Helping Children with Sensory Concerns

Food Program

• Learn About Our Food Program
• How To Enroll
• Reasons to Join
• Benefits & Services

Food Program Training

• Online Claiming
• Minute Menu Tutorials

Nutrition

• C.H.O.I.C.E. Toolkit & Self-Assessment
• Grow Up Healthy
• Infant Nutrition
• Breastfed Baby
• Best Practices for Serving Children
• Time for a Cup
• Menu Planning
• Picky Eaters

Health and Safety

• Food Allergies
• Too Sick for Care
• “Keep Me Home If…”
• Child Weight Issues
• Safety in the Car

Physical Activity

• Healthy Body, Healthy Image
• Kids in Motion
• Frolic in Fitness
• Fitness Activity Ideas
• Fitness Resources
• Homemade Equipment
• Turn Off TV