Additional Resources

In North Carolina

Beginning a Child Care Ministry: A Guide for Rural Churches (pdf) is published by The Duke Endowment and serves as a guide for churches who want to know more about starting a child care program. It includes a planning toolkit and information about the Endowment.
To address the growing need for accessible, affordable, high quality child care in rural communities, the North Carolina Rural Economic Development Center joined with leaders of the faith community in 1993 to form North Carolina's first partnership for children. This site explains the partnership and offers resources.
Smart Start–the North Carolina Partnership for Children, North Carolina's early childhood initiative, is designed to ensure that young children enter school healthy and ready to succeed. The website offers resources from the National Technical Assistance Center.
The N.C. Division of Child Development is a resource for parents and providers, the website includes tips on choosing quality child care.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services website includes a list of agencies, organizations and publications that provide information about initiatives and resources to support early and school-age care services in rural communities.
The National Center for Rural Early Childhood Learning Initiatives promotes research about the quality, accessibility and replication of early educational intervention services for at-risk young children and families in rural America.
The Rural Assistance Center provides health and human services information for rural America. Website visitors will find state and regional resources.

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Church-based child care helps sustain congregations and provides critical services in rural communities.

Offering needed child care services helps one church triple attendance.