Child Care Guides and Trainings

LISC has developed a series of trainings, self assessments, and guides to support child care providers. These cover topics from preparing for tax season to designing and improving high-quality early learning environments. 

You can find these resources in the LISC Phoenix Resource Library:

Self Assessments

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Family Child Care Space Checklist

A tool to help in-home family child care providers assess their physical environment and develop a quality improvement plan.

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Physical Environment Checklist

A tool to help early care and education providers assess their facilities and create a quality improvement plan.

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Guides

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Developing Early Childhood Facilities

This outlines the steps in the real estate development and financing process. It helps early childhood providers and their partners carry out early feasibility and planning activities, build an appropriate project development team, select and acquire a site, raise money, and complete construction.

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Designing Early Childhood Facilities

This guide helps early childhood providers, community developers, and architects plan effective spaces for young children with an overview of design principles, a tour through a center’s functional areas, and information on materials, lighting, security, urban settings, and accessibility. 

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Equipping & Furnishing Early Childhood Facilities

This guide helps you select furnishings and equipment that make your space usable and comfortable, child-safe and child-friendly, and attractive and functional for your needs. 

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Creating Playgrounds for Early Childhood Facilities

This guide assists in designing an outdoor space for young children. It suggests equipment and materials that support a range of activities that children can enjoy outdoors.

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Making Space Matter

The LISC Child Care & Early Learning team produced the “Making Space Matter” Report and Toolkit to guide state leaders through an assessment of their jurisdiction’s supports for child care and early learning facilities. This toolkit doesn’t stop at theory, but aims to cover all of the interconnected pieces needed to finally make space matter. We created the toolkit for action—a concrete, step-by-step guide to help craft the policies of the future.

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