LOCATE: Child Care

Selecting child care is an important decision for you and your child. The quality of care, cost, and convenience of location will have a big impact on your lives. To help you make this decision, resource and referral services are available through LOCATE: Child Care, a free service that will help you find child care to fill your needs.

LOCATE: Child Care helps parents find and choose child care to best meet their needs

LOCATE Offers: Personalized assistance by telephone. Individual phone counseling helps parents learn about various types of child care programs and provides guidelines for selecting high-quality care. Parents receive contact information for child care services that meet their needs – with information on hours, location, costs, and other program information. LOCATE referral specialists are well-informed professionals holding a minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree in early childhood education or a related field. Services are confidential.

Call toll free 1-877-261-0060, Monday through Friday 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Online Research:
As an alternative to individual phone counseling, an online option lets parents search the child care database at their convenience. This option does not include all the information provided in one-on-one phone counseling services

LOCATE: Child Care maintains:

• Registered family child care
• Licensed child care centers and school-aged programs
• Certified summer camps
• Nursery schools
• Head Start programs

Special counseling and referral services are available for military families, families of children with special needs, and Spanish speaking families.   

Complaint Policy pertaining to CCRR Service:
All of the resource centers of Maryland Child Care Resource Network strive to provide high quality service to their constituencies. However, in the event that someone has concerns about an incident regarding some aspect of service at a regional child care resource center or feels that he/she was mistreated by a staff member of a resource center, the caller can contact the resource center involved.

If the person is not satisfied with the way the concern or complaint was handled by the regional resource center, he/she can contact the Network manager at the Maryland Family Network. (MFN) at 410-752-7588. As the Statewide Coordinating Entity, MFN will investigate the complaint and act on it appropriately.