The Ohio Child Care Resource & Referral Association (OCCRRA) is a statewide association for child care resource and referral agencies (CCR&Rs). OCCRRA's membership consists of community-based child care resource & referral agencies providing services to families, early childhood professionals, and communities throughout Ohio. Along with direct services to over 40,000 Ohio families each year, Ohio CCR&Rs are involved in community activities which improve child care for all children. This includes efforts to improve laws, regulations, policies and funding.

Each member agency maintains a regional database of child care providers, provides families with information on how to select care, increases the quality effectiveness of providers by offering professional development opportunities, and provides information to policy and decision makers.

Each agency provides the following core services as well as many others:

• Develops and maintains a local database of child care and early education programs in their region
• Provides child care referrals and guidelines to help families choose child care
• Increases the supply of quality care by recruiting new family child care homes and helping with start-up, expansion and quality improvement of new school-age programs and child care centers
• Increases the quality of child care by offering training and professional development programs
• Provides information to child care decision makers to help them assess need and allocate resources