Advocacy and Lobbying
NCCA empowers members with advocacy training and resources. We partner with other national organizations to represent your voice on Capitol Hill.
Networking and Professional Development
We unify our members through local and national networks and provide opportunities for continuing education through conferencing and webinars. Membership in NCCA also fulfills professional development membership requirements for the CDA and similar credentials, National Accreditation, and STARS/QRIS.
Discounted Services
National Early Childhood Program Accreditation (NECPA) – National Director and Teacher Credentialing and Early Care and Education Program Accreditation
Inspire Care 360 – Connect to Experts that help “Propel Your Childcare Center to New Heights of Profitability & Efficiency.”
Go2s– Private Social Network
VMD Healthcare Solutions – VMD can instantly connect you to a doctor, therapist, dentist and more via their phone app and website.
D&D Technologies – Hardware for gates and more
HoppingIn – Don’t lose money on your empty childcare spots! With HoppingIn, you can display your available spots and let parents book the care they need. This allows you to offer daycare on demand and bring in extra revenue. Learn more online.
Kaplan Early Learning Company – From our research-based curricula to enriching classroom environments and innovative technology solutions, Kaplan’s products and services inspire a lifelong love of learning in children and educators.Quorum – Kaplan Early Learning – Professional Development Training:
- www.quorumlearning.com or www.kaplanco.com/ProfessionalDevelopment/Quorum
Child Care Biz Help is the childcare industry’s premier consulting firm, offering customized, holistic solutions to help their partners run a more successful business.
Catch provides automated tax payments, retirement, and health insurance, making it fast and easy to take care of benefits when you work independently.
Learning Beyond is a 100% online curriculum for infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and pre-kindergarten; developed by early learning educators, directors, and owners to offer an affordable, high-quality, equity-focused, environmentally-friendly curriculum to ALL providers. Learn more about the revolutionary curriculum, training, and teaching solutions Learning Beyond can provide at www.LearningBeyondPaper.com/ncca-necpa.
MarcoPolo Learning is is an award-winning educational media and technology company for children ages 3-7. Its newly designed platform for educators, MarcoPolo for Educators, empowers educators with a high-quality, developmentally appropriate video content library, including resources to thoughtfully and seamlessly incorporate child-led digital discovery at school, and features to personalize and extend learning opportunities that uniquely engage families at home.
Frog Street is an early childhood educational publishing company, helping to guide the next generation of children to success through research-based curriculum, digital resources and professional development.
TOOTRiS believes that every child deserves access to the quality, early childhood education that NCCA members provide. We are the first and only universal platform that connects Child Care providers with parents in real-time, many of which come from our employer-sponsored benefit solutions. TOOTRiS is also a turn-key Child Care software management system that compliments all aspects of your Child Care program, and meets or exceeds the value of any paid Child Care software package available today.
ChildCare Education Institute (CCEI) specializes in providing online child care training and certificates, child care registry development, and administrative solutions for the early care and education industry. As the leading distance training provider in child care center curriculum, CCEI offers professionals 150+ online child care training courses in English and Spanish to meet licensing, recognition program, and Head Start requirements.
Bertelsen Education is supporting families and childcare providers through continuing education by offering more than 50 courses to count towards CDA Credentials.
The Discovery Source strives to provide innovative, effective, and affordable solutions to ensure each and every child has a fair start and solid foundation for future success. Their mission is to understand the unique challenges and opportunities in supporting the Social-Emotional development of the Country’s youngest learners.
Early Childhood Educators Circle Time™ is a community for early childhood educators and childcare professionals to connect, network, and be elevated to serve the ECE industry. Our Signature Service is to help ECE and Childcare programs earn and maintain their high-quality programming seal of being Nationally Accredited.
1Place Childcare is a digital compliance platform, replacing paper-based checklists and incident forms with mobile tools that help child care organizations meet their quality, health and safety and external compliance obligations.