About Us
County Impact Statements - Craighead County
Best Care Training Helping to Develop Quality Child Care
Craighead County children are the greatest treasure. These children will need
quality child care in order to reach their physical, social, emotional and
intellectual potential. Helping to make quality child care available to
Craighead County families is a current goal of the University of Arkansas
Cooperative Extension Service.
Quality child care gives single parents a chance to find and keep a job,
allows both mothers and fathers to contribute to family income and prepares
children for school. Quality child care is a critical resource that we must work
together to provide for the children and communities who depend on us. In
response to this growing need, Extension developed and delivers "The Best Care."
The Best Care is a training program for child care providers that is
delivered in Craighead County. The Best Care classes fulfill the state
requirement that licensed child care providers must receive 10 hours of
instruction each year. The Best Care provides formal training on topics such as:
child safety, nutrition, infant and toddler neglect, effective discipline,
working with parents, record keeping and business management.
Quality child care is a critical resource for Craighead County children,
their parents and our economy. Extension's Best Care program is one of the
necessary building blocks for our children's future.
Extension's is working to make training easily and affordable to obtain by
also offering train via the internet and videos.
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Best Care provides the latest research information on child care.
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Impacts
- 70 licensed Day Care facilities in Craighead County.
- 41 licensed Family Child Care Homes
- 4 training Best Care classes taught in Craighead County each year.
- In the last 5 years over 1600 persons have attended classes.
- average attendance per class 75.
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