What PATCH Can Provide

For Parents and Families
  • Referrals to family child care homes and child care centers.
  • Resources on how to choose quality child care.
  • Information on child care subsidy programs.
  • Connections to resources for raising healthy children.
For Child Care Providers
  • Referrals to parents to support child care business.
  • Up-to-date, computerized information about child care business.
  • Low cost or free training opportunities.
  • PATCH's quarterly Training Calendar full of current child care information.
  • Scholarship and grant opportunities.
  • Access to funds through the USDA Child Care Food Program.
  • Resources, Information and News.
For Businesses and the Community
  • Enhanced child care resource and referral services available for employees.
  • Onsite workshops.
  • Child care data.

Announcing: Online Training!

PATCH now offers several courses online to help early childhood professionals complete training requirements and obtain training hours for those seeking a Child Development Associate (CDA) credential, renewal or in-service training.  Courses are available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year!  CLICK HERE for more information.

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PATCH was voted as one of Hawaii's Best Places to Work in 2011!  You can read about us in Hawaii Business Magazine and click here to find job opportunities at PATCH.


  

Get Active and Stay Connected

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Looking for Child Care? Click Here

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Free Preschool Opportunity!
Apply by January 31, 2012

Do you have Preschool-age children?  If so, PATCH may be able to help you with preschool tuition: Please click here for more information.

Announcing Preschool Open Doors 2012 Open Enrollment, March 1 - April 30, 2012.

Preschool Open Doors helps families pay for preschool tuition.  An application will be available for download in late February.  Please click here for more information.

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Child Care Providers >> Join Now!

Let's Move! Child Care State Challenge 

Help Hawaii reduce childhood obesity and the state could receive national recognition!  Let's Move Child Care (LMCC) initiative has two categories: one for the highest percentage of programs who sign up and another for the highest percent to complete the LMCC Checklist quiz.

CLICK HERE to sign up for the Let's Move! Child Care challenge and to take the LMCC Checklist Quiz.

LMCC is an intiative of NACCRRA, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Administration for Children and Families Office of Child Care. Click to visit LMCC's website which will track participant registration by Zip code.  The LMCC challenge ends April 1. 

People Attentive to Children (PATCH)



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To enter, send a photo, a brief description, and why you're a part of the PATCHwork to
kmartin@patch-hi.org

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PATCH is a member of the following national and local organizations:NACCRRA 

Aloha United Way
Kauai United Way
Hawaii Island United Way

  United way agency partner
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