FamiliesQuality Counts California can connect you to your local resource and referral agency to find high-quality child care.
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ProvidersQuality Counts California can provide support and resources to improve your early learning and care program and demonstrate your commitment to quality.
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PolicymakersQuality Counts California can help you communicate the importance and benefits of a quality rating and improvement system (QRIS).
Quality Counts California – Raising the Quality of Early Learning and Care
Quality Counts California is a statewide system of locally-implemented quality rating and improvement systems (QRIS), which helps to connect parents and families to high-quality early learning and care programs, and ensures that infants, toddlers, and preschool-age children have quality early learning experiences in their local communities. Quality Counts California also provides resources and support to early learning and care providers so they can create nourishing and effective early learning and care programs that will help children to grow and thrive.
Why does quality matter?
High-quality early learning and care programs can have a lifelong, positive impact on young children and their families. Research continues to show that children in quality early learning and care programs are more likely to succeed in school and less likely to drop out, need remedial education, or end up in prison.
Welcome to Quality Counts California
We’re excited to welcome you to the Quality Counts California website. It is designed to help parents and grandparents and early learning teachers and caregivers and inform the public on quality learning and child care throughout California…We hope you’ll find the website helpful because we know when it comes to children QUALITY COUNTS!