Childcare Resources and Finder

• Connects families with quality early care and education options and facilitates professional development opportunities for the adults who care for and educate our youngest Iowans. Nurse consultants are available for daycares. 
• Free Childcare Referrals/Parent Referral Hotline: 855-244-5301 or childcare@episervice.org or Looking for childcare?
• Community Development Specialist: 515-401-4957
• Provides consultation and training for childcare staff through our Child Care Consultant for that area.                                               
• Childcare consultant: 641-820-1923.
• Child Care Assistance- https://hhs.iowa.gov/programs/programs-and-services/child-care/CCA
• Employer:  https://iowaccrr.org/employers/
• Communities: https://iowaccrr.org/communities/

Local Contact: 

• Brenda OHalloran, Child Care Consultant Jasper, Marion, and Poweshiek Counties
• Child Care Resource & Referral of Central Iowa, Child Guidance Center Orchard Place
• bohalloran@orchardplace.org

Child Care Assistance (CCA) is available to the children of income-eligible parents who are gone for a portion of the day due to employment or participation in academic or vocational training or PROMISE JOBS activities.  Assistance may also be available for a limited period of time to the children of a parent looking for employment.

Child Care Collaborative of Iowa: Our mission is to guide child care programs to improve financial practices and optimize resources that benefit children, families, and their business.

The Child Care Search Tool displays childcare providers with vacancies by geography or along a designated driving route. With this tool, Iowan’s can conveniently identify childcare providers near or between home and office.

This tool also offers essential information including IQ4K ratings, age filters, hours of operation, and subsidy acceptance.

For the best experience, please use a home computer or tablet to view the data within this tool.

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The Iowa State Office staff is dedicated to increasing child care's supply and business sustainability by strengthening home-based and center-based childcare programs through business and financial training, coaching, consulting, technical assistance and access to capital.

The Iowa staff also bolsters the workforce and economy by helping communities find the right-sized solutions for child care through consulting projects; including child care market analysis, strategic planning and financial modeling of future facilities and expansions.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FirstChildrensFinance/

Programs, resources, & educational opportunities: Agriculture & Natural Resources, Business & Industry, Communities, Continuing Education, Families, & 4H & Youth Development. 

Food and family classes and childcare training. Gardening. 4H, 

Mid Iowa Community Action (MICA) serves Jasper County. 

MICA Services in Jasper County include: 

• Maternal and Child Health
• I-smile (Dental screenings in schools)
• WIC clinics in Newton & Colfax
• 1st Five (for providers)
• FaDSS/Family Development
• Childcare Consultant- Poweshiek/Jasper https://hhs.iowa.gov/programs/programs-and-services/child-care/hcci
  • Tara Berstler, RN, 641-328-3237

WIC: Pregnant, postpartum, breastfeeding, infant, children up to age 5. 

WIC Times and locations:

Location: Newton Salvation Army

• 1st Monday of every month
  9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
• 2nd Tuesday of every month
  10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
• 2nd Monday and Wednesday of every month
  8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Howard St. Christian Church in Colfax

• 1st Wednesday of every month
  8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m

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Keyword search: pregnant, infant, breastfeeding, breastmilk, new mom, postpartum, food, WIC, WIC coupons, formula, milk

Child Care WAGE$® Iowa (WAGE$) is a salary supplement program offered by Iowa AEYC. WAGE$ works hand-in-hand with T.E.A.C.H. Early Childhood® Iowa. WAGE$ offers salary supplements (also called stipends) to the early care and education workforce, based on the individual’s level of formal education and commitment to their program. 

To be eligible to receive a WAGE$ stipend you must:

• Work in an HHS-regulated early care and education program that accepts Child Care Assistance (CCA)
• Earn at or below $25/hour (any eligible position)
• Have one of the education levels listed in the supplement scale (see below), from regionally accredited schools
• Work 20 hours or more per week with children birth to preschool-age at least six months in the same child care program and be employed there when a final confirmation has been completed