Idaho AEYC
Child care, training, and the people who can help.
The Idaho Association for the Education of Young Children strengthens the systems that support families, child care providers, and communities across Idaho.
- Find What You Need Two questions, then a written answer with the next step. Start here if you are not sure where to go.
- Family Resources Finding child care, help paying for it, kindergarten readiness, and free Parent Café conversations.
- Provider Resources Training and hours through IdahoSTARS, T.E.A.C.H. scholarships, NAEYC accreditation, and the Idaho early childhood job board.
- Early Learning Collaboratives Twenty-six early learning collaboratives across six Idaho regions, on a map, with the towns each one covers and the plans they published.
- Events Parent Cafés, trainings, the Professional Development Institute, and Early Learning Day at the Capitol.
- News & Stories What is happening in Idaho child care, written for people outside the field.
- The Case for Early Learning The Idaho numbers, the published reports behind them, and who to call at the Statehouse.
- About Idaho AEYC What this association is, who works here, and how it has spent its time since 1986.
- Give What a gift funds, how to make one, and where the audited numbers live.
- Contact Email, phone, the Boise office, and who to ask for.
- Search Everything Full text across every page, program, collaborative, event, and published document.
- Accessibility What this site commits to, and how to tell us when something blocks you.
Programs, collaboratives, events, and published reports all live inside these twelve pages. The search box at the top covers every one of them.
Not sure where to start? Answer two questions and this site will tell you, in plain words, what applies to you and who to call.
Written for you
Five audiences, five different answers
Idaho AEYC serves families, child care providers, community partners, policymakers, and donors. The same program means something different to each of them, so each one gets its own answer instead of the same brochure.
Coming up
What is happening
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Parent Café: Back to School, All the Feels
A free Parent Café hosted by Harold B Lee Elementary. Limited to 25 people; each person attending registers individually.
Harold B Lee Elementary, Weston
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Parent Café: Back to School, A, B, and the 3 Cs
A free Parent Café hosted by Lincoln County Youth Center. Limited to 25 people; each person attending registers individually.
Lincoln County Community Conference Room, Shoshone
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Parent Café: Backpacks and Boundaries
A free Parent Café in Kamiah. Limited to 25 people; each person attending registers individually.
UYLC Recovery Community Center, Kamiah
The case
Why an association, and not just a program
Child care in Idaho is not one service. It is a network of providers, trainers, funders, schools, and families that only works when somebody keeps the pieces talking to each other. That is the job.
- 26 early learning collaboratives across Idaho’s regions
- 1986 the year Idaho educators founded this association
- 44 Idaho counties the work reaches toward
- 5 audiences at the center of every page: families, providers, policymakers, donors, partners
Figures come from Idaho AEYC's own published materials. The reports behind them are on the case for early learning.
Where we work
Twenty-six collaboratives across six regions
An early learning collaborative is the group in one town that plans together: the school, the providers, the library, the clinic, the employers, and the families. Idaho AEYC supports twenty-six of them.
Recently
News and stories
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Building School Readiness Through Play: Canyon County Early Learning Collaborative
How one collaborative turns play into kindergarten readiness, with families and providers learning side by side.
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Early Learning Collaborative Symposium 2026
Collaboratives from around the state met June 12 and 13 to compare what is working in their own communities.
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Idaho AEYC Hosts Early Learning Day at the Idaho State Capitol
Twenty-four early childhood organizations brought their work to the Statehouse on February 3 to meet policymakers.
Give
A gift here pays for training, resources, and the collaboratives
Money given to Idaho AEYC funds family resources, provider training and scholarships, and the collaboratives that put both to work in a specific Idaho town.