Which organization is in charge of developing policies for licensed family childcare and early education programs?

• A. National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care and Early Education
• B. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• C. American Academy of Pediatrics
• D. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

Answer: (A)

Focusing on creating and sharing practical rules for health and safety in child care, the National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care and Early Education develops policies, model procedures, and implementation tools that licensed family childcare and early education programs can adopt. This organization’s role is to provide guidance that programs use to meet licensing standards and protect children, rather than to conduct disease control, give pediatric medical guidelines, or conduct research. The other organizations—CDC focuses on disease prevention, AAP on medical guidelines for pediatric care, and NICHD on research—do not specialize in developing the policies that licensing authorities rely on for everyday operation in family child care settings.