The Ohio Child Care Resource & Referral Association (OCCRRA) is a statewide not-for-profit network of child care resource and referral agencies (CCR&Rs). OCCRRA Members are community-based child care resource & referral agencies throughout Ohio. There are child care resource and referral (CCR&R) agencies serving all 88 counties in 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.

Your local CCR&R serves families, child care providers and communities in many ways. Each agency provides the following core services:

• 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