NAFCC Accreditation

The National Association for Family Child Care is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting quality child care by strengthening the profession of family child care.

The goals of the Association are:

• To strengthen state and local associations as the primary support system for individual family child care providers.
• To promote a professional accreditation program which recognizes and encourages quality care for children.
• To represent family child care providers by advocating for their needs and collaborating with other organizations.
• To promote the diversity of the family child care profession through training, state and local associations, public education, and Board membership.
• To delive effective programs through strong and organizational management.

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• Benefits of NAFCC Accreditation

• NAFCC Accreditation Network

• NAFCC Accredited programs in your area

• Links of interest to child care programs (to come)

Benefits of Accreditation
	Improves the quality of programs available for children and families
	Provides professional and public recognition for quality programs
	Assists parents in their search for quality programs for their children
	Assures contributors to programs a sound investment
	Provides national recognition that may give programs leverage to increase resources
	Keeps child care professionals excited about their work
	Involves the entire community in the self study process
	Motivates child care professionals to pursue ongoing professional development
	Increases provider's, teacher's, and director's self-esteem