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Looking for resources to help your Child Care business get started?

From KSBIZ.Gov. The Child Care Provider Starter Kit includes information for getting started as a child care provider in Kansas.

From the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, information on Child Care Licensing and regulations.

A grant guide through Little Tikes Commercial, with both National and state-specific guides available.

Kansas Child Care Training Opportunities, Inc. (KCCTO) is a state-wide training office dedicated to providing quality, accessible, professional development opportunities to family child care providers, child care center staff, and other early education professionals throughout Kansas.

Thanks to a new grant program, both personal therapy and professional support are available to early childhood providers in Kansas for free. Bailey and Madelyn at the Mindful Collective are therapists with expertise in early childhood. They are the founders of Mindful Minis, a mental health-informed child care center in Derby.

A resource designed to help providers and staff navigate stress with activities and strategies.

This organization believes that quality, affordable childcare is a critical factor in successful communities.

A publication of ChildCare Aware of Kansas. They provide a fantastic resource- and past issues are viewable as well.

KITS is a program of the University of Kansas Life Span Institute and is supported through a grant from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment-Early Childhood Developmental Services to provide training and technical assistance to IDEA Part C Programs.

SBA Advocacy supports businesses with less than 500 employees, non-profit organizations, and small government jurisdictions under the work they do on behalf of small entities in our country. Advocacy’s mission is to help small businesses as regulations are developed.


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