The Child Care Resource & Referral Agency (CCR&R) works hand in hand with parents and child care providers to ensure that children are in safe, high quality early learning environments. In addition to advocacy, the CCR&R provides direct services to parents and providers in a 14 county service area.

In August 2005, the Child Care Resource and Referral Agency of East Georgia at Augusta was awarded the distinction of Quality Assured by the Child Care Aware Consumer Education Quality Assurance Program.

Child Care Aware® administers this national, voluntary, quality assurance system for community child care resource and referral programs (CCR&R). The Quality Assurance Program is designed to ensure that families across the country have access to consistent, high quality consumer education and referral services. The process requires the CCR&R to provide detailed information about their quality services on 82 inputs, as well as passing a randomly placed referral call, with very rigorous requirements.

Nationally, there are approximately 850 CCR&R agencies. The CCR&R of East Georgia at Augusta was one of the first 100 to be a Quality Assured CCR&R agency in the country. The staff of the CCR&R is very proud to be recognized for their work.

Serving the following counties:

Burke, Columbia, Glascock, Hancock, Jefferson, Jenkins, Lincoln, McDuffie, Richmond, Screven, Taliaferro, Warren, Washington, and Wilkes

Protection of privacy

To protect the privacy of parents, all personal information obtained remains strictly confidential. Only statistical information that will assist in educating lawmakers will be shared. For child care providers, we will give the name, phone number and street address for commercial centers, but will only provide the name, phone number and city for residentially based providers (family and group child care homes). Rate information will be given only if the provider has granted permission.

Funding

The Child Care Resource and Referral is funded, in part, by Bright from the Start: Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning through the Federal Child Care Development Block Grant.

Additional Information:

Child Care Aware®
Families may visit this site to receive parenting and early care and education information. You can also be linked to a CCR&R in another region, if necessary. Materials are available in both English and Spanish.

Bright from the Start: Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning
Responsible for registering/licensing all child care programs in the state of Georgia and investigating any complaints filed by the community. Visit this site to learn more about their services or to download a complete copy of the rules and regulations governing child care programs.

GACCRRA (Georgia Association of Child Care Resource & Referral Agencies)
GACCRRA works to promote accessibility, affordability and quality of care for all children in Georgia. Collaborating with families, community and state partners, GACCRRA advocates to support the early care and education community by responding to their needs in building capactiy for safe, healthy and nurturing community environments for child development.