Child Care Professionals
The Ingham County Health Department Office for Young Children (OYC) is now officially a partner of the Great Start Child Care and Early Learning Central Regional Resource Center.

The Central RRC covers 10 counties: Ingham, Eaton, Clinton, Ionia, Shiawassee, Gratiot, Clare, Gladwin, Isabella and Midland.
Click here to view at map of the Great Start Child Care and Early Learning regions.
What does this mean for you?
OYC will continue to offer training in a variety of ways; traditional classroom, correspondence, hybrid,(classroom & correspondence combined), on-line and video learning.
OYC also has a list of new trainings with available CEUs.
OYC will continue to advocate for children and quality child care throughout our region.
Our goal is to share many rich resources throughout the region and offer some new opportunities for you to participate in training experiences and lending library materials.

A user-friendly web page which contains resources, events, and educational opportunities
Training and professional development opportunities
Opportunities for enhancing provider professionalism through collaboration with other agencies, community events, conferences, networking and education
Referrals to community agencies for additional services for families and the children in your care
Listing for job opportunities in the tri-country area in the early childhood edcuation field

Disclaimer Statement: OYC does not license nor inspect child care providers, so OYC can not assure the quality of the care they provide. The names of child care providers are generated from a list of child care providers that are registered or licensed with the Sate of Michigan. OYC staff are Mandated Reporters by Law and must report any suspected child abuse/neglect.