• Report: Enrollment, Explosion, and Resource Use in Wisconsin Child Care – This brief report provides information from a survey of Wisconsin’s regulated child care providers about how they address the needs of young children with challenging behaviors.
• Behavior Help Wisconsin – Behavior Help Wisconsin helps child care providers struggling with a child’s behavior. Their social-emotional approach helps children receive the targeted support they need to reduce challenging behaviors and promote positive ones.
• Social-Emotional Indicators for Infants and Toddlers – A bulleted guide of social-emotional developmental indicators for children aged birth through 3.5 years.
• The Infant Toddler Temperament Tool (IT3) – Take a short online survey that allows parents and caregivers of infants and toddlers to recognize and explore their own temperament traits and those of the children in their care.
• National Child Traumatic Stress Network – Learn about childhood trauma, including causes, standard of care, access to services for traumatized children, and more.
• Act Early Wisconsin – Resources to help parents and care providers identify and respond to potential delays in children’s development.
• Learn the Signs. Act Early. – Resources to help parents and care providers identify and respond to potential delays in children’s development.
• Wisconsin Alliance for Infant Mental Health (WIAIMH) – WIAIMH promotes social-emotional learning and relationship-based practices that are in the best interest of infants, young children, and their families.
• Social and Emotional Foundations Tip Sheets – Helpful tips sheets on nurturing children’s social and emotional intelligence, including targeted support around biting, routines, and much more.

• Family Style Dining Guide for ECE Programs – This meal service approach can help early care and education programs prevent childhood obesity and support children in developmentally appropriate mealtime experiences.
• Wisconsin Child & Adult Food Program (CACFP) – CACFP is a federally-funded program that can provide licensed or certified child care providers with financial reimbursement for serving nutritious meals and snacks to kids in their care.
• Kids Gardening.org – A resource to help parents and educators think creatively about getting children involved in gardening and active in nature.
• USDA MyPlate – Official nutrition recommendations from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
• Active Early/Healthy Bites: Wisconsin Physical Activity & Nutrition Resource Guides – available in English and Spanish

• Sesame Street Healthy Habits Guide – With help from your Sesame Street friends, find fun-filled activities that add physical activity into everyday moments — hopping on the sidewalk, jumping in puddles, dancing to music, and more.
• American Academy of Pediatrics on Fitness – Daily physical activity recommendations and ideas to get children moving and healthy.
• Kids Health from UW Health – A website from UW dedicated to helping children grow up healthy, from newborn to teen.
• Active Early/Healthy Bites: Wisconsin Physical Activity & Nutrition Resource Guides – available in English and Spanish

Arranging your home for family child care (Outdoor areas)

A checklist for the outdoor environments of your family child care program.

• Video: How to Find Child Care: Get tips on how to find high quality child care in Wisconsin from CCR&R child care referral specialists.
• Wisconsin Shares Child Care Subsidy Program: The Wisconsin Shares Child Care Subsidy Program supports families by funding a portion of the cost of child care while the parents are working or participating in an approved activity.
• Wisconsin Circuit Court Records: Conduct a name-based search of your child care provider in Wisconsin’s Circuit Court records.
• “Walk in My Shoes” Brochure: A handy checklist to help parents identify high-quality child care programs.

Search for Available Locations

Search commercial and industrial sites/buildings available throughout Wisconsin.

YoungStar Group Policy Checklist

YoungStar’s checklist for what must be included in your group center’s policy in order to earn a 4 or 5 Star rating.

Group Policy Checklist

Outlines the required and recommended items that should be included in your group child care program’s policy document.

What to Look for in a Location

Helpful guide concerning what rooms, sizes, outdoor spaces, and more to look for in a prospective group child care location.

Training Requirements for Group Center Staff

Entry-level trainings required for group child care directors and teachers.

Group Initial Licensing Checklist

The checklist used to score group centers seeking a child care license.

How to Open a Group Child Care Center

A step-by-step guide to obtaining a group child care license in Wisconsin.

Professional Standards and Competencies for Early Childhood Educators

A description of the core body of knowledge, skills, values, and dispositions early childhood educators must demonstrate to effectively promote the development, learning, and well-being of all young children.

Unifying Framework for Early Childhood Educators

A publication reflecting the consensus of how to advance a unified, diverse, equitable, and effective early childhood education profession.

Worker’s Compensation

Information on legal obligations of employers around worker’s compensation, and information for filing employees.

Wisconsin Labor Standards

Resources for employers, including information on labor standards, work hours, overtime FAQs, breaks, fair employment, and more.

Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development

Review Wisconsin’s employment laws, including equal rights, worker’s compensation, wages, disability, and more.

• Physical Developmental Delay Tool: Use this tool to learn more about physical developmental delays for children ages 5 and under. The information is meant to help you start a conversation with your child’s pediatrician.
• Ages and Stages Questionnaire (ASQ): This free and confidential screening tool will help you see if your child’s developmental progress is on time and alert you to any potential concerns that you can talk over with your health care provider.
• CDC’s Developmental Milestones: Children reach milestones in how they play, learn, speak, act, and move. See the developmental milestones children should reach from 2 months to 5 years.

21 Free Online Design Tools

These websites can help you create professional quality advertisements and materials.

Essential Design & Print Materials for Any Business

An overview of the print materials every business needs, with tips and links to help you design and create them yourself.

Facebook for Business

Learn how to create and use a Facebook page for your business that represents your brand and drives customers.

Top 10 Website Builders

A list of top sites that can help you build your business’s website by yourself.

Wisconsin Women’s Business Initiative Corporation

WWBIC assists individuals who are starting, strengthening, or expanding businesses by providing direct lending, quality business and financial capability education, and one-on-one technical business assistance.

Wisconsin Small Business Development Center

The Wisconsin SBDC offers consulting, education, referrals, sophisticated tools and resources, whether you’re just getting started or looking for ways to improve your business.

U.S. Small Business Administration

Information to help you plan, start, manage, and grow your child care business.

SCORE Business Mentoring

SCORE’s mission is to foster vibrant small business communities through mentoring and education. Find a mentor or become a mentor today.