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Metro Child Care Resource & Referral has been one-stop-shopping for child care providers for over 15 years. Our experienced staff and superior service helps providers grow their business and improve the quality of the child care programs. Below you will find information on the many services we offer, including:

• Provider Training
• How to become a Child Care Provider
• Free enrollment in an online referral database
• Education and training
• Information on how to receive funding for serving nutritious meals in your child care program
• Products providers can buy to improve their program's safety
• Information on starting a family child care home
• Monthly newsletters with articles, recipes, and community news important to child care providers

Scroll down to find out more about each of our programs. If you have questions, there will be number listed to reach a staff person for each program. Or you can call our main number at 503-253-5000.

Child Care Providers of all kinds enroll for free on our child care database. Families searching for child care online will be able to find information about your program.

How it works:

Child Care Providers send information to us and Metro CCR&R staff enter it into our database. Information is updated as often as the provider chooses to update, but must be at least every 90 days or we remove the provider's record from our database.

Parents have access to our database two ways:

• One month or one year paid membership giving them 24 hour access to the referral database
• Free access as part of a benefit program through their employer

Information given to families about the provider is limited to only that which is relevent to child care. We do not give out a provider's email address or exact location. We also do not give out information for mailing lists, other than to send our own helpful Metro CCR&R newsletters.

Download an enrollment or update form here:

Child Care Center Staff and Family Child Care Providers seeking to get started, renew their training requirements or improve their knowledge of child care will find many educational choices through the training program of Metro Child Care Resource & Referral. We offer training opportunities every month, evenings and weekends in a variety of topics:

• Most Saturdays we offer a Super Saturday training covering three classes; Recognizing & Reporting Child Abuse, Food Handlers Certification & Pediatric CPR/First Aid
• Child Development Workshops
• Child Mental Health Workshops
• Child Care Provider Well-Being Workshops
• Child Care Business Workshops
• Health & Safety Workshops
• Private Training's for child care center staff on a chosen topic

And much more! Our topics and trainers are among the best in the business providing entertaining education as well as meeting your licensing requirements.

Child Care Development Services is a sponsor of the Child/Adult Care Food Program (CACFP). The primary goal of the CACFP is to promote good nutrition. The CACFP sponsored by CCDS is available to qualifying Family Child Care Providers. Participation includes:

• Monthly cash reimbursements
  for serving nutritious meals
• Access to support and resources
  that help grow your child care business
• A monthly newsletter
• Ongoing workshops
• Personal Attention

Family Child Care Providers who are registered or certified with the State of Oregon or listed with DHS can qualify to join the child care food program. Providers may call us prior to getting licensed or listed and our staff will be happy to assist you in that process.

You can purchase products from us to help improve the health and safety of your program. Simply contact us and our friendly staff will tell you how you can buy:

If you want to be on our newsletter mailing list, or if you have an article you want to submit for our newsletter, please contact us!