For more than 30 years, Child Care Resource Center has been the Winston-Salem community’s expert resource and referral organization – while serving a total of nine Northwest North Carolina counties including Alleghany, Ashe, Davidson, Davie, Forsyth, Stokes, Surry, Wilkes and Yadkin.
Created in 1991 as a collaborative effort between the Junior League of Winston-Salem, Northwest Child Development Council, The Winston-Salem Foundation, United Way of Forsyth County and several local employers, Child Care Resource Center’s (CCRC) vision is to ensure quality early learning experiences for every child in our community. By working with families and early childhood professionals to provide consumer education, referrals and resources to promote quality childcare, CCRC focuses on coordinating childcare services with childcare needs while increasing public awareness about the importance of quality childcare.
If you’re a parent needing assistance finding a nanny, a childcare center, family childcare home, after-school care or a summer camp, CCRC should be your first phone call. Equally, if you’re a business owner or human resource director managing absenteeism/lost productivity in the workplace and seeking a helpful benefit to offer your employees who need assistance with childcare decisions, or you’re a child care provider looking for professional development and coaching, CCRC can help!
CCRC engages families by providing the tools they need to make the best decision about childcare for their child and family circumstances. In consultation with CCRC’s childcare navigators, you’ll learn about quality indicators to look for while visiting potential childcare programs. You’ll receive a toolkit that provides a list of questions to ask each childcare provider to learn more about their program and to see how they will care for your child. You’ll also receive information about North Carolina’s quality rating system for childcare programs and learn how this system is linked to the quality of care your child will receive.
Whether you’re looking for an in-home nanny or a childcare program, you only want the best, while being sure it’s an environment that will keep him/her healthy, safe and learning. Talking with one of their childcare navigators is the best place to begin!
You can also visit the CCRC website and search their online database to access information about legally operating childcare programs across this nine-county region. CCRC offers a combination of free and fee-based services (including a nanny search service) to suit the needs of all families.
CCRC enriches childcare by providing professional development and on-site coaching to early childhood professionals. Topics include CPR/First Aid, cultural competence, early inclusion, child development, developmentally appropriate curriculum and managing challenging behaviors, and more. Observation, modeling, coaching and feedback provide opportunities for teachers to put the new knowledge into practice and to increase their capacity to work more effectively with your child.
CCRC enhances communities by advocating for quality childcare and for adequate wages for childcare professionals. Believing quality childcare/early learning experiences set the groundwork for future learning, CCRC focuses on the link between quality childcare, school readiness and future workforce preparedness. Studies prove children who have access to high-quality early learning education are better prepared to enter kindergarten and are more successful in life.
Deeply committed to working within the community to improve the availability of quality childcare, CCRC uses daily interactions with parents and childcare providers to collect essential data on childcare supply and demand, so needs can be identified and solutions developed to meet those needs. CCRC also works with caregivers who are not part of the licensed childcare system, defined as Family, Friend and Neighbor Care, and offers early learning opportunities that enrich the lives of children and the individuals caring for these children each day while their parents work or attend school.
CCRC collaborates with other agencies to help educate community leaders on childcare issues, and works closely with state and national children’s organizations to support initiatives that enable children to develop to their fullest potential.
CCRC also has an established presence with local businesses. Employers are realizing their employees’ ability to balance the demands of their work and personal life has a significant impact on absenteeism, productivity, morale and turnover. CCRC can help employers assess their needs and develop customized solutions, along with services that include consultation on developing family friendly policies and benefits, enhanced resources and referrals to assist employees with their dependent care needs and seminars on a variety of work and family issues. CCRC contracts with several local employers to provide enhanced resource and referral services (childcare and nanny referrals) as a benefit to their employees. These services help save time for the employees by giving them access to an expert who can work with them until they have found childcare.
For more information on the educational and community services provided by the CCRC and how you can encourage advocacy, visit childcareresourcecenter.org or come by their new offices at 102 W. 3rd Street, Suite #750, Winston-Salem, NC, 336.245.4900. And, save the date of October 7, 2025, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. when the Child Care Resource Center’s 14th Annual Children’s Champion Luncheon will be held at Forsyth County Country Club.
