To the web site of Childcare Resource Network, a non-profit organization  in Fort Payne, Alabama.  We strive to provide quality programs and services in partnership with families and communities in northeast Alabama.  Childcare Resource Network has been in the child care business since 1972 and we have been advocating for children and families all during that time.

CRN offers support services that improve the quality of all child care; including provider and parent training, two resource centers, and  resource and referral services for parents and employers.  CRN also operates four child development centers with sliding fee scales, and we have four of Alabama’s  First Class Pre-K classrooms.   

CRN offers on-line training with Smart Horizons, check it out on our Training page.  You can get your CDA.

 

We have Resource Libraries in Fort Payne and in Guntersville.  Please contact us to make an appointment to check out books, to laminate materials or to use our extensive Ellison die cut collection.

 

Check our training calendar carefully.  We strive to bring you quality face to face training here in our region every month.  Plus, you gain every  time you come and network with your peers.

 

We have a link for APT (Alabama Public Television) here on our site.  APT regularly offers online training and they offer the Alabama Early Learning Guidelines on their site, too.

 

 

A Note from our Director:

 

As a part of the child day care community of northeast Alabama, Childcare

Resource Network has worked for 37 years to improve the lives of children, to support child care providers who work with our children on a

Daily basis, and to advocate for the improvement of all services that support healthy families.

 

Children have only one childhood and it is the responsibility of each of us to help all children experience the wonders of this world.  What better memories can we give our children than the attention of loving and caring adults?

 

At Childcare Resource Network, we work to make opportunities available for anyone who has a part in a child’s life to learn, experience, and to have available resources that will make them better caregivers.

 

It is our wish that all of us will work together to support the success of every child  and that we will all work to advocate for healthy happy children who will be ready for public school and their future as productive adults.

                                                               

                                                                  Mary Sibert Davis

                                                                 Executive Director