The Arizona Child Care Resource and Referral program is offered by:

The Association for Supportive Child Care

along with the Arizona Child Care Association, offers resource and referral services in the following counties:

Apache
Maricopa
Pinal
Coconino
Mohave
Yavapai
Gila
Navajo

Child & Family Resources, Inc.

offers resource and referral services for the following counties:

Cochise
La Paz
Yuma
Graham
Pima
Greenlee
Santa Cruz

To contact Arizona Child Care Resource and Referral, dial our statewide number: (800) 308-9000. Otherwise, you may call your local CCR&R directly at the following calling areas:

Metro Phoenix: (602) 244-2678
Tucson: (520) 325-5778
Yuma: (928) 783-4003

The Arizona Child Care Resource and Referral program is administered by the Arizona Department of Economic Security (DES). DES was responsible for establishing the framework, procedures and implementation time-line throughout the state. Community based organizations provide these services though contracts with DES.

Funding for Arizona's CCR&R program comes from the Federal Child Care and Development Block Grant. There is no fee for the CCR&R service for either child care providers or parents.

The goals of the Arizona Child Care Resource and Referral program are:

  • to serve parents of all socioeconomic groups and be responsive to their individual family needs
  • to develop and maintain a complete information database on all forms of lawful child care
  • to be accessible to parents through telephone, internet and walk-in facilities
  • to refer parents to all forms of child care
  • to maintain ongoing relationships with all local groups interested in child care
  • to provide training and technical assistance to child care providers
  • to help develop child care resources to meet the needs of local communities
  • to participate in local and state planning councils
  • to provide statistical information on the supply and demand of child care
  • to collect and share data with human service and data collection agencies