Child Care

The Child Care Improvement Project (CCIP) aims to enhance the knowledge and skills of registered and certified family child care providers.

The goals of the eleven-year-old project are to:

• improve the quality of family child care
• strengthen in-home child care businesses
• increase low-income families' economic stability and access to affordable, quality child care

The project helps providers to ensure that each child receives nurturing, safe, stimulating, and developmentally appropriate care. Providers participate by attending monthly child and business development workshops, receiving regular home visits, providing customer satisfaction surveys to their clients, and having a yearly assessment done of their child care business and practices. Parents benefit by having quality affordable child care options available as they pursue their careers and education

The CCIP currently operates five networks throughout Multnomah County, including three culturally specific networks representing Latina, Russian,  and Somali providers. 

If you are a parent seeking childcare or you are a provider who is interested in joining a network, please contact:

Sherrena Torrence, Childcare Networks Coordinator
(503) 246-1663 Ext. 3104
storrence@nhweb.org

To learn more about the Child Care Improvement Project, please visit their website: CCIP

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For an current list of child care providers in the CCIP network, please contact Sherrena Torrence