indiana ccdf parent portal

What is the Indiana CCDF Child Care attendance tracker?

This website was developed primarily to offer hands on, user friendly information to Indiana CCDF child care providers about the child care attendance information that is recorded in your Point of Service (POS) device and used to calculate your CCDF payments.

What is the Indiana Child Care Development Fund?

The Indiana Child Care Development Fund (CCDF) values your services and would like to thank you for the quality child care you provide to Indiana's children. Quality child care environments ensure that children are safe, healthy and ready to learn.

What is the Indiana CCDF Family Services website?

This website was developed to offer hands on, user friendly information to Indiana families who receive CCDF services.

What is the child care and Development Fund (CCDF)?

The Child Care and Development Fund is a federal program that helps low-income families obtain child care so that they may work, attend training or continue their education. The purpose of CCDF is to increase the availability, affordability and quality of child care.

How many hours a day does CCDF provide child care?

licensed provider may decide to offer child care services 24-hours a day. CCDF children are to be assigned, according to their service need, to one of two 12-hour shifts (6pm to 6am or 6am to 6pm or other shift defined and approved by the Office of Early Childhood and Out of School Learning). The provider may not enroll more than their licensed capacity during either 12-hour shift. A child who needs care that would overlap during these shifts shall be assigned to both

What is the purpose of CCDF?

Department of Health and Human Services to amend the Child Care and Development Block Grant. The purpose of the CCDF program is to have one single, integrated child care funding system to assist low-income families through subsidized child care and to increase the availability and quality of child care services.

What is a CCR&R agency?

The Child Care Resource and Referral is an agency serving each Indiana County to help families make decisions about quality child care for their children. CCR&R agencies also offer various training opportunities and other business and child care resources to providers.

What is POS in child care?

The term to describe the process of electronically documenting a child’s attendance through the use of a Point of Service (POS) device located at the child care center, home or ministry.

What is a child care record?

An electronic or written record of child care provided which includes date and time of arrival and departure and has been verified by the parent/guardian for an identified period.

What is voluntary child care?

voluntary system which evaluates child care programs against specific criteria in areas of curriculum, health and safety, parent communication, and staff qualifications which has been validated by a nationally recognized early childhood organization or institution.

Does CCDF approval transfer to another site?

If a child care provider moves, the new building or home must be inspected. CCDF approval does not automatically transfer to another site.