Back To Basics

 The Tender Times newsletter includes many valuable resources. The latest series of articles focus on music and creative movement with young children. Music and movement experiences have a postive impact on all areas of children's development. A focused music program teaches children the basics of beat, tone, musicality and lyrics...read more.

View the newest edition of The Tender Times.
   

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has established a developmental milestone area on it's website that educates parents and providers on the developmental growth of a child. These milestones are in areas such as how your child plays, learns, speaks and acts. A delay in any of these areas could be a sign of a developmental problem, even autism.

View the CDC's Developmental Milestones site.

 

 

Child Care Resource & Referral, Western Region serves eleven Southern Utah counties - Beaver, Garfield, Iron, Juab, Kane, Millard, Piute, Sanpete, Sevier, Washington, and Wayne. Click here for other Utah counties.

Click here for driving directions to our St. George and Cedar City offices.

We offer the following services:

Services for Families

  • Free referrals to and information about child care programs, tailored to meet families' specific child care needs
  • Free information on how to choose quality child care, given over-the-phone, through-the-mail and on-line
  • Free child care data and contact information to programs that support families


Services for Providers

  • Start-up support, including grants, for new child care providers
  • Free listings on our referral database
  • Low- or no-cost training to instruct and encourage providers and center staff in offering quality child care
  • Unlimited access to curriculum lending library and children's books
  • Free quarterly newsletter featuring upcoming training, grant opportunities, and activities for children


Services for Community and Business Partners

  • Useful data about child care services in local areas
  • Collaboration with a variety of agencies interested in family and child care issues, including a yearly early childhood conference
  • Employer presentations on work-life policies, including ways to support employees with their child care needs, as well as brown-bag seminars for employees on a variety of topics.


To improve the quality of life for the children in Southern Utah who are enrolled in child care programs and provide support for their families and child care providers.

 

  
CCR&R, Western is an agency of Five County Association of Governments. Funding comes from DWS, Office of Work & Family Life.