Maryland State Child Care Association
Caring for Maryland’s Most Important Natural Resource
Contact Information
Call: (410) 820- 9196
Email: [email protected]
Welcome!
The Maryland State Child Care Association (MSCCA) is the premiere professional association for licensed child care and early learning centers operating in Maryland and for associated businesses and individuals that support the mission of the Association.
Mark Your Calendars!
Conference by the Sea 2025
May 1st to 4th
The Ashore Hotel and Conference Center
Ocean City, MD
Business Membership
We thrive from the support of business members through their membership, event sponsorship, donations, and industry support to our centers.
News from Child Care Central
CREDENTIAL APPLICATIONS MUST BE SENT DIRECTLY TO CHILD CARE CENTRAL USING ONE OF THE FOLLOWING METHODS:
Email: [email protected]
Fax: 410-229-0145
Mail: Child Care Central, PO Box 598 Baltimore Maryland 21203
For questions pertaining to your credential, please contact Child Care Central: 877-355-1229
Maryland Child Care Mapping
MFN and Upfront, a software company that validates and provides access to childcare data, developed a real-time interactive mapping tool to make data about the availability of care more transparent. The map breaks down to hyper local information and type of program so government officials and policymakers will be able to better understand where childcare deserts are throughout the state or even by neighborhood. Historically, this type of data is only updated yearly and has never been built to this scale in a public-facing tool. By making this type of childcare data transparent, policymakers have valuable information to support initiatives for the regions that need it most.
Membership Directory
View our membership directory for centers, school age, and individuals.
Save Maryland Childcare: Site Launched
Licensed Child Care Providers Are The Backbone Of Our Economy Maryland May Lose Half of Child Care Supply From Crisis Please visit: SaveMarylandChildCare.org We Need Child Care To Enable Our Economic Recovery, Now And In The Future Now that Governor Hogan has started reopening Maryland’s economy, more parents need child care again. But the state...
Resources
News and Articles
Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services Early Care and Education Strategic Plan 2017: Investments in Our Future.
The Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services has released a report titled Strategic Plan 2017: Investments in Our Future that has valuable information for all Early Care and Education Stakeholders. Report linked here.
Statewide Data 2017
Statewide Data 2017 Maryland's Kindergarten Readiness Assessment (KRA) is a developmentally appropriate assessment tool administered to kindergarteners in the fall of each year that measures school readiness across four domains. Readiness levels are reported statewide...
Annual Advocacy Event in Annapolis
Thank you for coming out! Check out our video. Click post title to go to video. Please note you may need to be logged into Facebook to view this video. https://www.facebook.com/MarylandFamilyNetwork/videos/1348953101815361/ Sponsored by: Maryland Family Network, the...
Training the Trainer Opportunity
If you have ever taken a professional development workshop and thought that you might be interested in teaching a workshop and sharing your special interests or knowledge of a specific topic then the Training of Trainers workshops might be for you. Innovations in...
Election for MSCCA
Holiday Greetings Members! Thank you to all of the MSCCA members for casting your ballots in the recent election to choose the 2017-2019 Maryland State Child Care Association Board of Directors. The Board of Directors consists of volunteers who are elected to serve on...
MSCCA Conference By the Sea 2017
We are very excited to announce The Conference By the Sea is being held at an even larger venue, the Clarion Resort Fontainebleau Hotel! Save the Date!!! The MSCCA is gearing up for our annual Conference by the Sea in Ocean City Maryland on May 5-7, 2017. We are...
Message from Executive Director Christina Peusch
The Maryland State Child Care Association (MSCCA) experienced an unusually busy and successful summer. We moved our office to Annapolis, Maryland in early July, formed a legislative task force of partners to work together for progress on important child care issues to...
Office of Childcare Licensing Branch
Description of Program The Office of Child Care, Licensing Branch is in the Maryland State Department of Education’s (MSDE) Division of Early Childhood Education (DECD) and is responsible for the licensure and registration of child care facilities and the approval of...
Fee Changes for Background Checks
Effective on October 1, 2016. Please see the new fee schedule below for your convenience. The fingerprinting fee at the CJIS-Central Repository is still $20.00 but you may choose to go to another agency. Please verify what the fees are for fingerprinting if you go...
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