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.
More Advocacy Efforts to Restore Funding for the Child Care Credentialing Program
Please read this commentary provided by MSCCA Executive Director Christina Peusch on the national childcare crisis and the suspension of funding. Read Article
Resources
News and Articles
PreK Grants Overview (Spanish and English)
Sharing from our partners at the Maryland State Department of Education: We are holding a general overview of the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future Prekindergarten Expansion Grants and Maryland State Prekindergarten Programs for Spanish-speaking prekindergarten and...
Important Tax Alert/Relief information resource link from Comptroller Franchot’s Office!
Important Tax Alert/Relief information resource link from Comptroller Franchot’s Office! As many child care businesses have applied for and received pandemic related grants and loans, MSCCA has asked Comptroller for info to share with child care community as a...
Time Sensitive: Child Care Apprenticeship Assistance Needed
Attention Early Childcare Education Community: Support is needed for a child care apprenticeship program from our partners in Early Childhood Education at Harford Community College. Harford Community College is in the final stages of creating a Child Care...
Statewide Virtual Child Care Town Hall – January 29th
Join the first of multiple virtual statewide Town Halls with one click from home and share your important support for child care! Maryland has a significant surplus of money and in order to build a stronger, more equitable, effective, efficient child care system that...
Op-Ed from Peter Franchotti on Support for Child Care
Thanks again to Comptroller Peter Franchot for his support, understanding, and attention to the child care industry as highlighted in this Op-Ed. The money is there and MSCCA has asked the Governor's office for additional state funds in his budget for child care and...
Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services Week of Action—Early Childhood Workforce, November 14–20, 2021
The Administration for Children and Families is partnering with the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to help the early childhood (EC) workforce access health coverage during the Open Enrollment period for marketplace coverage, which started on November...
MSDE Child Care Scholarship Audits
MSDE has previously sent out two email blast reminders about the need for child care providers to maintain daily sign-in and sign-out sheets and the importance of responding timely to attendance audits. Providers selected for an attendance audit for the 9.13.2021 -...
Stabilization Rescue Grants
Child Care/Early Childhood Education businesses are angry, disappointed, and frustrated, rightfully so - today is the last day of September and stabilization rescue grants that were expected in September have not arrived. Advocates have been working to help move the...
Outreach – Be Prepared!
BE PREPARED! 1.) Child Care Providers must maintain daily sign-in and sign-out sheets in order to receive payment from the Child Care Scholarship Program. Child Care Providers must develop processes that ensure parents sign their children in/out of your child care...
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