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AccreditationChild Care Center Accreditation The purpose of National Association for the Education of Young Children
(NAEYC) Accreditation is to improve the quality of care and education
provided for young children in group programs in the United States.
Accreditation provides a process through which early childhood professionals
and families can evaluate programs, compare them with professional
standards, and identify areas needing improvement. Accreditation includes
a self-study process which compares your program to identified criteria,
allows for improving needed areas, and a visit from a national validator
to complete an observation of your program. The North Dakota Department of Human Services, Children and Family Services Division, awards scholarships and stipends to assist with the Accreditation process. Applications are available through your local Child Care Resource & Referral office. If your application is approved, the full accreditation fee will be paid by DHS/CFS. In addition, if your program successfully attains Accreditation, you may be reimbursed up to $500.00 to help defray the costs your program incurred during the Accreditation process. Family and Group Provider AccreditationThe National Association for Family Child Care (NAFCC) is a national membership organization working with more than 400 state and local family child care provider associations across the United States. NAFCC Accreditation can help providers, families and communities define standards of quality for the field of family child care; help parents and policy makers recognize high-quality family child care; promote providers’ self-assessment and professional development; motivate providers to put training into practice; serve as a cornerstone in state professional development systems. The NAFCC Accreditation process consists of a self-study assessment, a time to make improvements, and an observation visit by a trained national observer. Please visit NAFCC’s web site for more details about Accreditation, at: http://www.nafcc.org/accred/accred.html (link will open in a new browser window) School-Age Care AccreditationAdvancing and Recognizing Quality (ARQ) is the National School-Age Care
Alliance's (NSACA) program improvement and accreditation system, developed
by the National Institute for Out of School Time (NIOST). The ARQ is
a three-step process by which an out of school time program can improve
quality and apply for accreditation. The three-step process of continuous
improvement includes using the Standards to help staff discuss quality
and identify improvements, engaging in a self-study to gather information
from parents, children, staff and the host site, and a visit from an
observation from a trained national validator. National School-Age Care Alliance (link will open in a new browser window) The North Dakota Department of Human Services, Children and Family Services Division, awards scholarships and stipends to assist with the Accreditation process. Applications are available through your local Child Care Resource & Referral office. If your application is approved, the full accreditation fee will be paid by DHS/CFS. In addition, if your program successfully attains Accreditation, you may be reimbursed up to $250.00 to help defray the costs your program incurred during the Accreditation process.
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