Child development specialists have produced extensive research showing that quality early care and education has a tremendous impact on a child’s intellectual, social, and emotional development. A child’s early years are a time of fast brain growth that set the stage for lifelong learning.

• Alabama Department of Early Childhood Education: First Class Pre-K
• Alabama Department of Human Resources: Child Care Services
• Alabama Family Child Care Affordability Calculator
• Alabama Child Care Landscape: Roadmap Project
• Child Care Aware
• Alabama Quality STARS
• National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)
• T.E.A.C.H. Early Childhood® Alabama