Support for Families

Finding the right care for your child can feel overwhelming. Your local Quality Improvement System can provide information and support for your child care search process.

Professional Learning Opportunities

There’s always more to learn when it comes to providing the highest quality early learning and care for California’s youngest children. QCC connects providers with a broad range of training and professional learning opportunities.

California's Universal Prekindergarten

California’s vision for Universal Prekindergarten includes robust transitional kindergarten programs and a strengthened California State Preschool Program. Get up-to-date information on Universal Prekindergarten investments and advances.

Resource Library

The redesigned QCC Resource Library provides families, caregivers and educators, policymakers, and QCC quality partners with access to resources on a variety of childhood development and early learning and care topics.

Join your local QIS

Are you an early learning and care provider ready to commit to the quality improvement process? Your local QCC Lead Agency can provide more information about the onboarding process, incentives, requirements, and professional learning opportunities. Find your local QCC Lead Agency now.

Home

  • Families

    Access information and resources to help you identify and connect with quality early learning and care programs.

  • Early Educators

    Find resources and support to assist you in providing quality early learning and care.

  • Quality Partners

    Access Quality Improvement System (QIS) resources (for coaches and trainers, higher education faculty, assessors and observers, and QCC consortium members).

  • Policymakers

    Access information to help communicate the value and importance of quality early learning and care.

Purpose

Quality Counts California (QCC) is a statewide effort to strengthen California’s early learning and care system to support young children and their families. QCC uses an equity approach to close the education gap:
  • Prioritizing communities where we can make the greatest impact
  • Providing access to tools and resources for quality partners, including QIS administrators, coaches, trainers, and higher education faculty
  • Linking early educators to resources and support to advance their commitment to quality early learning and care
  • Informing parents and families about the importance of quality early learning and helping them identify quality early learning and care environments
  • Offering information and research to help policymakers communicate the value and importance of quality early learning and care
QCC is funded by a collaboration between First 5 California (F5CA), the California Department of Education (CDE), and the California Department of Social Services (CDSS).
How Quality Counts California Reaches Children and Families

Quality Counts California

QCC focuses on quality early learning and care because those foundational experiences help build the skills children need in school, work, and life. (Reference: Harvard University’s Center on the Developing Child)
  • QCC defines quality as early learning and care programs that have environments, relationships, interactions, and activities to support all children’s growth and development to prepare them for success in school and life.
  • Research continues to show that children who attend a quality early learning and care program are more likely to do well in school and less likely to drop out or need remedial support later in their education.

More About QCC

Learn more about how QCC fits within the local and national landscape of early learning and care for children.