Family & Community Support (Shasta & Tehama)
The Family and Community Support Services Division is centered around families, children, child care providers and local agencies. We have the expertise to help you find a quality child care setting and to connect you to programs that help cover child care costs. For over 30 years parents and children have counted on us to assist them in finding child care, applicable resources and to provide detailed information that meets the family’s needs. Our child care provider community looks to us for education, training and support whereas local agencies network with our programs to provide comprehensive family services.
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Randi Brickey
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Find a Child Care Provider (Shasta & Tehama)
Welcome to the ECS Child Care Referral Utility. The online referral access is for both Shasta County and Tehama County as a convenience to you. Use the below referral utility depending on which county best suits your childcare needs.
If you have any questions or concerns using the referral tools, please don't hesitate to contact our offices for assistance.
Click here to search for child care. This will open in a new tab.
Shasta County: 530-225-2999 | Tehama County: 530-529-3131
Another online resource for finding a child care provider is My Child Care Plan. This website has a mapping feature to help identify where the child care provider is located as well as tools for choosing the right child care option for your child(ren).
Resource & Referral (Shasta & Tehama)
Searching for child care can be stressful. Believe in yourself and understand that as a parent, you are best able to evaluate and choose care for your child. Resource and Referral is here to assist in your evaluation.
The process begins with a phone call to Resource and Referral at Shasta (530)225-2999/Tehama (530) 529-3131. To determine your child care needs, we will conduct a short telephone interview with you. Information needed includes:
- the location where child care is needed
- what child care option will work best for your family
- how soon you need care, and
- specific needs which may affect your child care search
Once we have your information, we access our child care database and identify child care providers within Shasta and Tehama County who may meet your specific child care needs. We can provide the referrals to you via e-mail, fax or mail.
In addition, we will also review:
- the process for finding child care, and
- how you can evaluate the quality of a child care provider
If for any reason the referrals provided to you do not meet your needs, you are welcome to call back for an expanded or revised search.
A referral is NOT a recommendation. It is important to note Child Care Referral & Education only makes referrals, not recommendations. We rely on the child care providers to provide us with up-to-date information. As such, we do not guarantee the accuracy of the provider information in our files. We do not license, endorse, or recommend any particular provider, nor do we make any judgement about the quality of care given by any provider. Consequently, we urge you, as the parent, to interview a provider and check the provider's references carefully before leaving a child in that provider's care.
As a parent, you have the right to get information about any substantiated or inconclusive complaints about a child care provider that you select for your child. This information is public and you can get it by calling the local licensing office-Community Care Licensing at 530.895.5033 or 1-844-538-8766.
California Childcare Initiative Project (Shasta & Tehama)
The California Child Care Initiative Project (CCIP) is designed to increase the supply of licensed, quality child care. The Initiative works through existing nonprofit community-based child care resource and referral agencies (R&Rs). Since 1992, CCIP has targeted its recruitment and training to meet the changing child care needs of the parents served by the R&Rs.
FOCUS
The Child Care Initiative Project (CCIP) targets the home based early care & education community, which includes license exempt providers (Family, Friend, and Neighbors), licensed home providers and assistants, as well as anyone interested in becoming a licensed home provider.
• CCIP trainings help to transform a home based early care & education business into a competitive and marketable industry.
• CCIP trainings provide opportunities for home based early care & education providers and their staff to build their confidence to care for infants and toddlers as well as children with special needs.
• CCIP trainings provide opportunities for home based early care & education providers and their staff to access resources, attain support, acquire additional knowledge and network with other home based early care & education providers.
Currently all trainings are virtual, please contact Michelle Mills at (530) 225-2996 or mmills@shastacoe.org for dates and links.
