Great Beginnings Quality Child Care Plan
Marion County

A subgroup of the Early Childhood Consortium led by several partners including Child Care Information Service, Chemeketa Early Childhood Department, Teaching Research Institute, Early Intervention/Early Childhood Special Education, The Health Department, Community Action Head Start, Department of Human Services, Marion County Children and Families Commission, and Healthy Start of Marion County worked together to craft the Quality Child Care Plan. At the completion of a 6-month evaluation of the project prepared by Teaching Research Institue, we have the Great Beginnings Quality Child Care Project Final Report. Click here to download a .pdf of the final report document.

Child Care Projects of Great Beginnings:

Family, Friends, and Neighbors Project
A new project of CCIS in partnership with Department of Human Services to visit with and provide resources to legally exempt, DHS listed family, friend and neighbor caregivers. If you would like to request a visit from our Coordinator to assist you in numerous ways, please contact our office at 503-585-2491. If you would like to view our brochure which will explain in more detail the services we have available to caregivers of young children, click the link below:

CCIS Family, Friends, and Neighbors Brochure.pdf

Chemeketa Child Care Cohort
Another Great Beginnings project is the Chemeketa Infant/Toddler Development and Caregiving in Child Care Settings Cohort. 33 child care providers from child care centers and family child care programs have enrolled for the first cohort that began January 2007. It was so popular that we decided to open a second cohort which still has a couple of slots available for enrollment. The second cohort begins February 23rd, 2007. Call CCIS to find out more or to enroll at 503-585-2491. These classes are only available to Marion County child care providers.

Infant/Toddler Specialist Consultation
If you are a child care provider seeking assistance with young children in your program or would like an onsite visit in order to develop strategies on how to work with difficult children, please contact CCIS. This new service is an invaluable resource to all child care providers in Marion County.

If you have ever had a difficult child that you had to kick out of your child care, or are contemplating releasing a child from your program now... Wait!!!

This consultation model is here to help you continue to provide a consistent, quality environment that allows you to develop proper skills in young children to make them socially and emotionally available to integrate into your program. Let's all work together to insure that every child has an opportunity for a nurturing, consistent early childhood experience.

Currently, in Marion County we have an Infant/Toddler Consultant that is available to come to your child care center or family child care program and talk with you about concerns that you may have about your child care environment, specific children in your program, and even about building relationships with the parents that have children enrolled in your program. Please call CCIS to find out how to get involved in this service. The best part is... it is free to you!!!!

Yamhill County Cares

Cares is a program administered by CCIS and funded by the Yamhill County Children and Families Commission. It is designed to reward child care providers and to help improve the quality, stability and safety of child care by attracting, educating, retaining, and compensating qualified child care providers. 
To qualify a provider needs to:

• Work directly with children at least 20 hours/week in a registered or certified family child care, licensed center, or full day/full year Head Start program.
• Earn $12.00/hour or less as a provider, or $15.00/hour or less as a director.
• Agree to stay in their current place of employment for at least one year, caring for children ages 0-5.
• Currently be on the Oregon Registry step 3 or above.
• Be enrolled in the CCIS database.
• Complete 20 hours of additional training in one year (excluding basic CCD requirements)

Cares gives quarterly wage supplements directly to child care providers in accordance with their Oregon Registry step. The higher the provider’s level of education, the higher the level of stipend each provider will receive (between $200.00 and $2,500.00).  The program is developed to create incentives around continued training and education. 

If you think that you are interested in pursuing this opportunity, call CCIS at 1-800-289-5533 for more information or for an application. CCIS wants to reward you for your hard work and dedication to children!!

Oregon Registry Step	3	4	5	6	7
Annual wage stipend up to the following amounts:	$200	$500	$550	$600	$650
Oregon Registry Step	7.5	8	8.5	9-9.5	10-12
Annual wage stipend up to the following amounts:	$750	$1,000	$1,500	$2,000	$2,500

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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