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Provides the following information and services: - Child care licensing​

- Child care provider information and referral​

​- General information on licensing for child care

Licenses in-home child care homes, offers training, and monitors child care homes to support the health and safety of children. Potential child care license applicants must attend an initial orientation meeting to learn if this may be the right business for them. - Children are not allowed to attend orientation sessions.

- If school is canceled due to weather concerns, the meeting will also be canceled.

- Individuals arriving 15 minutes beyond the start time of the session may not be allowed to attend.

- Interpreters can be arranged for the orientation session.

- License application materials will be provided at the initial orientation meeting.

Provides the licensing for child care, which typically takes three to six months to complete. Services include: - Child care provider information - Information about licensing requirements and standards - Inspections and investigations on certifications - Orientation, licensing, and re-licensing of child care certification

Website with child care search tool and other information for parents. Individuals can search using various criteria to receive customized results based on their child's needs. Assistance is also available by phone.

Provides the licensing for child care, which typically takes three to six months to complete. Services include: - Child care provider information - Information about licensing requirements and standards - Inspections and investigations on certifications - Orientation, licensing, re-licensing of child care certification

Provides the following information and services: - Child care licensing - Child care provider locator information - General information on licensing for child care, rules and regulations, forms, and trainings

Provides the licensing for child care, which typically takes three to six months to complete. Services include: - Child care provider information - Information about licensing requirements and standards - Inspections and investigations on certifications - Orientation, licensing, re-licensing of child care certification

Provides coaching and support to Child Care Providers in Dakota, Carver, and Scott counties to help them prepare children for school. Services include: 

- Collaboration with community organizations to promote high-quality child care - Information on caregiving options, including center care, licensed family care, and family, friend, and neighbor care - Links providers to training, grants, and professional development opportunities - Links to culturally specific resources and referrals - Provides individual consultation to caregivers to start or strengthen their child care program - Support and resources for families and caregivers

Provides the following information and services: - Child care licensing

- Child care provider information and referral​

​- General information on licensing for child care

Provides referrals and connects pregnant and parenting families to early childhood resources, including:

- Basic needs, food, and housing

​- Child care

​- Early education screenings

​- Public programs

​- Special education services

Pro-choice pregnancy support services include:

- Confidential emotional and practical support with pregnancy, including right to life/pro-life counseling to help create a plan filled with reassurances and hope

- Free resources for maternity clothing, baby items, and pregnancy tests

- Information about pregnancy, childbirth, adoption, prenatal care, community programs, parenting skills, and child care resources

- Referrals for medical support, financial resources, housing, legal, social services, and counseling

Provides the following information and services: ​

• Child care licensing

- Child care provider information and referral

- General information on licensing for child care

- In-home or family child care licensing

Provides the licensing for child care. Services include:

- Child care provider information

- Information about licensing requirements and standards

- Inspections and investigations on certifications

- Orientation, licensing, and re-licensing of child care certification

Provides the licensing for child care, which typically takes three to six months to complete. Services include: - Child care provider information - Information about licensing requirements and standards - Inspections and investigations on certifications - Orientation, licensing, and re-licensing of child care certification

- Child care referrals: Parentaware.org

- Grants to early childhood programs to help fund supplies, equipment, technology, and professional development:

- Emergency Grants: May be available year-round to help cover costs associated with emergency situations based on the availability of funding.

- Regional Grants: Offered annually and awarded on a competitive basis to child care programs. Applications are available September 1 and must be submitted by September 25 for consideration.

- Startup Grants: Available year-round, depending on funding to cover items required to open a child care license and to help cover start-up costs.

- Professional Development: Offers educational and training opportunities to Early Childhood professionals and educators, parents, foster care providers, and those interested in the development of children, birth to age 12.

Provides the licensing for child care. Services include: - Child care provider information - Information about licensing requirements and standards - Inspections and investigations on certifications - Orientation, licensing, re-licensing of child care certification

- Accepts donations of gently used baby items (except car seats and cribs), blankets, bouncers, diapers, wipes, baby wash, formula, high chairs, maternity clothes, swings, toys, books, stuffed animals, pacifiers, and clothing/shoes from newborn up to size 3T

​​- Car seat safety seminars - Classes in breastfeeding, budgeting, childbirth, child care, food/nutrition, housing, infant care, life coaching, parenting, and more

- Individuals may receive a new infant car seat or convertible car seat when they take two classes and the car seat safety seminar

- Community referrals to child care, food, education, employment, housing (including assistance in searching for housing), job assistance, physicians, and more

- Peer counseling - Pregnancy testing - Provides baby clothing, coats, snow suits, hats, mittens, scarves, shoes, furniture, emergency diapers, wipes, blankets, maternity clothing, Pack N Plays, and formula - Pro-life pregnancy educational counseling on abortion and alternatives

- Ultrasound services

Provides the following information and services: - Child care licensing​

- Child care provider information and referral​

​- General information on licensing for child care

- In-home or family child care licensing

Child Care Aware is a statewide early childhood education program providing early child care resources, information, tools, and navigation to network with other child care programs. Programs include:

- Child Care Assistance Wayfinder: One-stop navigation network to help individuals interested in starting a child care program

- Early childhood professional resources, grants, and scholarships

- Family, Friend, and Neighbor (FFN): Unlicensed care provided by a relative, friend, or someone in the community

- Parent Aware: A quality rating system for child care centers and family centers and directory tool to locate a child care or family center

Services include:

- Adoption planning and placement

- Baby items include Bundles of Love gift bags that are filled with baby clothes, bibs, blankets, diapers, toys, and wipes for all newborns, and a pack and play

- Crisis hotline

- Domestic and international adoption

- Home studies

- Mother and Child Assistance Fund provides 1-time assistance to pregnant women and families with children under 12 months old. Electric service, gas service, heating fuel, rent payment, and water service assistance are provided.

- Parenting planning and education

- Post-adoption assistance

- Pro-life pregnancy planning services

- Referrals for medical assistance, financial assistance, housing assistance, legal assistance, nutrition services, and parenting education

Provides the licensing for child care, which typically takes three to six months to complete. Services include: - Child care provider information - Information about licensing requirements and standards - Inspections and investigations on certifications - Orientation, licensing, re-licensing of child care certification

Administers licensing for child care. Services include: 

- Child care provider information

​- Information about licensing requirements and standards

​- Inspections and investigations on certifications

- Orientation, licensing, and re-licensing of child care certification

Provides the licensing for child care, which typically takes three to six months to complete. Services include: - Child care provider information - Information about licensing requirements and standards - Inspections and investigations on certifications - Orientation, licensing, re-licensing of child care certification

Provides the following information and services: ​- Child care licensing​

- Child care provider information and referral​

​- General information on licensing for child care

- In-home or family child care licensing

Provides the licensing for child care, which typically takes three to six months to complete. Services include: - Child care provider information - Information about licensing requirements and standards - Inspections and investigations on certifications - Orientation, licensing, and re-licensing of child care certification