Child Care Resource & Referral Services

Child Care Resource  & Referral of Upstate SC (CCR&R) assist parents in locating and selecting child care. Additionally, CCR&R help improve the quality and supply of child care by working with parents, business leaders, government officials, and early childhood programs.

CCR&R is involved with the entire range of early childhood programs in an area. We have contact with license-exempt programs, registered family home care providers, Head Start, after-school programs and nonprofit and for-profit center-based early childhood programs.

CCR&R offers a core set of services:

• For parents - CCR&R provide consumer education and referrals for various types of child care.
• For businesses CCR&R can offer enhanced child care referral contracts to provide referral services to participating employers. Individual employer or groups of employers also may contract for seminars on selecting child care options.
  

Benefits

• Costs to the employer can be relatively low or, in the case of simply providing employees
• with information about CCR&R services at no cost.
• The employer does not have to be directly involved in the selection or provision of child
• care.
• Personalized parent counseling and child care referral.
• Increased access to child care means less stress and higher morale among workers who also are parents.
• Employers could use CCR&R agency services as an interim step while they decide what other coverage to provide for their employees.

Steps in using a Child Care Resource and Referral agency

1. Decide the level of involvement with the CCR&R. 
   The employer needs to decide whether it wants to (1) contract with a resource and referral   agency to provide services to employees or (2) provide information on resource and referral agencies to employees.
   
   
2. Negotiate services and fees. 
   If the employer decides to provide information to employees regarding resources & referrals, the next step is to contact the CCR&R and ask it to provide materials on the services it offers. If the employer decides to contract with a CCR&R, it should contact us to learn about the services offered and negotiate a contract at 864-467-4800 or 1-877-467-4800.