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Healthy Child Care Colorado is the most trusted source in Colorado for health and safety in child care. Our mission is to build safe, supportive, and healthy early childhood settings and systems where children and professionals learn and grow. We rely on your support to sustain this work and expand our programs and services.
"HCCC has been both an anchor and a life raft and I’ve loved working with you in my role as a rural Child Care Health Consultant. I don’t know how you do all the work you do on so many levels and with so many facets, and always with a smile and friendly, open manner - you are simply amazing! All the best to the wonderful team at HCCC!" - CCHC & Local Public Health Department Staff
“The biggest success is the immediate change in the children's behavior! We implemented a lot of the strategies we learned from this class and they are starting to work and the children are loving the changes we are making!” - Pyramid Training Project Participant
"The early childhood field is so important and means a lot to me. I'm so grateful we have amazing people like you working to make it better because it's an extremely undervalued field despite having so much significance." - Early Childhood Mental Health Consultant
"This effort meaningfully expanded the workforce trained to implement oral health screenings and referrals in early childhood programs. The existence of this training and corresponding data collection efforts will continue to strengthen bridges between oral health and early childhood for years to come." - Colorado Dept of Public Health & Environment Staff
Our mission is to build safe, supportive, and healthy early childhood settings and systems where children and professionals learn and grow.
We promote and support best practices by providing professional development and technical assistance, offering grants and scholarships (as funding allows), and engage in advocacy efforts.
We focus on four priority areas: healthy eating and active living, social and emotional well-being, oral health, and safe environments.
Healthy Child Care Colorado arose out of the Healthy Child Care America initiative that began in the 1990s with support from the US Department of Health and Human Services, the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Health Resources and Services Administration; the Child Care Bureau, Administration for Children and Families; the American Academy of Pediatrics; and the American Public Health Association. These partners recognized the potential to positively impact the health and safety of children in early childhood settings throughout the country.
Colorado stakeholders recognized the importance of collaboration, so the Colorado Children's Hospital, the Colorado Department of Human Services, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, and Qualistar worked together to build Healthy Child Care Colorado. The founding organizations serve on the Healthy Child Care Colorado Steering Committee along with new partners.
Organization name
Healthy Child Care Colorado
2019
Tax id (EIN)
84-0685056
Category
Education
Organization Size
Large Organization
Colorado State Tax Credits
Colorado Child Care Credit
Address
3000 Lawrence St, #208Headquarters
3000 Lawrence St, #208CO, US