Quality Care & Education

The Best Care Available

A well-informed and educated citizenry is the foundation of democracy. Family child care providers can profoundly impact a child’s ability to learn and succeed in school. A nurturing and interactive relationship between a child and their primary caregiver is essential to their social and cognitive development.

This is backed up by scientific research, which shows that as much as 90% of a child’s brain development takes place within the first three years of life.

Because young children are recognized as active learners, the state of California has set up three criteria for a quality preschool program: 

• A consistent and stable caregiver;   

• Small group size (i.e., no larger than 14 kids); and

• A student-teacher ratio of no more than 1:7.

Family child care providers look after school-aged children as well as infants and toddlers, and their programs routinely meet these criteria.

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Affordable Health Care

Helping Ourselves to Help Others

Like many self-employed individuals and small business owners who struggle to support their families, child care providers know that health coverage is a necessity, not a luxury, as it offers providers the freedom to faithfully discharge their duties toward their young wards while simultaneously securing the well-being of themselves and their families. 

That is why Child Care Providers United of California (CCPU-CA) is very proud to have unveiled a historic package of health, dental, and prescription programs in 2008 exclusively for CCPU-CA members and their families.

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Respect & Recognition

The Work We Do

Every day tens of thousands of parents across California rely on child care providers to supply their children with stimulating early education and quality care while they go about the business of earning their daily bread.

As child care providers, we look after infants, toddlers, and school-aged children and are in a position to profoundly impact a child’s ability to learn and succeed in school. We are crucial to children’s intellectual, emotional, interpersonal, and social development.

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Timely Subsidy Payments

Raise Your Voice

Child Care Providers United of California (CCPU-CA) will introduce two legislative bills in Sacramento this year: Assembly Bill (AB) 304 and AB 315.

AB 304 would give child care providers the option to be reimbursed by alternative payment (AP) agencies via direct deposit.

This would have the effect of ensuring that subsidy payments are made on time, while simultaneously reducing fraud and facilitating the oversight process, as the state would find it easier to track subsidy payments made to child care providers. 

AP agencies and child care providers who have had experience with direct deposit payments have reported overwhelmingly positive results.

Direct deposit saves time, allows providers to better plan their monthly activities, and has increased provider satisfaction with the state subsidy program.

AB 304 is currently in committee.

Meanwhile, AB 315 is an attempt to standardize AP payday procedures statewide.

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Peer Advocate Training

Member-to-Member Assistance

Through this unique program, Child Care Providers United (CCPUnited) of California has successfully helped child care providers across the state:

• Win thousands of dollars in back payments;

• Overturn licensing citations;

• Win zoning hearings; and

• Change local ordinances. 

More than 60 leaders have participated in multiple peer advocate training sessions in Contra Costa, San Diego, San Francisco, San Mateo, Orange, Imperial, Riverside, and Ventura counties. 

CCPUnited is committed to providing our members with the resources and training that will help them resolve many of the common concerns that routinely arise between providers and licensing and other state agencies.

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