Your journey.
Our guidance.

Welcome to Child Care Navigators.

Child Care Resources Inc. helps North Carolina families, educators, child care programs, employers, and communities navigate a child care ecosystem that is complex by design.

The first step is knowing where you are.

Our Navigators.

Search Navigators
can help you:

  • find child care that meets your needs and preferences
  • use research-based indicators to identify quality and evaluate program options
  • connect with other community resources to support your family

  • Email: SEARCH@childcareresourcesinc.org
  • Text: FINDCARE to 980-292-9496
  • Subsidy Navigators
    can help you:

  • determine your eligibility for child care financial assistance
  • complete the application process
  • enroll in child care programs that accept subsidy vouchers

  • Email: SUBSIDY@childcareresourcesinc.org
  • Early Learning Coaches
    can help you:

  • build your knowledge and skills in areas that interest you
  • create safe and stimulating environments for young children
  • enhance your interactions and teaching to optimize learning

  • Email: COACH@childcareresourcesinc.org
  • Text: PARTNER to 980-292-9496
  • Child Care Business Coaches
    can help you:

  • successfully navigate NC’s Pathways to the Stars
  • strengthen your operations in areas of interest
  • market your program, maintain enrollment, and achieve sustainability

  • Email: GROW@childcareresourcesinc.org
  • Text: PARTNER to 980-292-9496
  • Professional Learning Navigators
    can help you:

  • connect and learn with other child care professionals
  • identify opportunities for your own growth
  • create program-wide professional development plans for your staff

  • Email: LEARN@childcareresourcesinc.org
  • Text: PARTNER to 980-292-9496
  • Employer Services Navigator
    can help you:

  • connect to CCRI’s child care navigation services
  • conduct a child care needs assessment with the working parents you employ
  • consider employer-sponsored child care benefits such as enhanced referrals and stipends

  • Email: EMPLOYERS@childcareresourcesinc.org
  • Our story.

    People have always used the stars to navigate. Long before maps, GPS, and smartphones, people looked to the night sky to help them find their way.
    The stars didn't tell them where to go. They helped them understand where they were.
    That's where every journey begins.

    BROUGHT TO YOU BY

    Because early learning matters.

    Child Care Resources Inc. is a private, non-profit child care resource and referral agency that works with families and communities to help ensure that children have access to high-quality, affordable early learning and school-age opportunities and experiences that enable them to succeed in school and in life.