For child care providers

Provider Resources

Training that counts toward your hours, scholarships that pay for a credential while you keep working, accreditation support, and the Idaho early childhood job board. If you run or work in a program anywhere in Idaho, this page is for you.

Training and hours

IdahoSTARS carries the catalog

IdahoSTARS is Idaho's child care resource and referral and professional development system. It runs training across subjects, and it is where your hours are recorded.

Idaho AEYC adds the convenings the catalog does not cover, including the annual Professional Development Institute, where early childhood leaders and experts gather for training and connection.

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Professional development is the difference between a room that is supervised and a room that teaches.

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Credentials and degrees

T.E.A.C.H. Scholarships

T.E.A.C.H. scholarships help child care professionals earn credentials and degrees while they work. The program is built around people already in the classroom, which is why the coursework is paced the way it is.

NAEYC accreditation

Accreditation from the National Association for the Education of Young Children is the national mark of quality for early learning programs. It takes a program through self-study, documentation, and a visit. Idaho AEYC supports programs going through it, which mostly means knowing what the standards actually ask for before you write anything down.

Idaho ECE Job Connections

Idaho ECE Job Connections carries early childhood openings across the state, including Idaho AEYC's own. Programs hiring in your area post there rather than scattering listings across job sites.

Read the Quality Child Care Checklist as a provider

The Quality Child Care Checklist is written for parents choosing a program, which makes it worth reading as a provider: it is the list a family will be holding when they walk through your door. Download the checklist (PDF).

Programs

What Idaho AEYC runs for providers

  • Program

    IdahoSTARS

    Idaho’s child care resource and referral and professional development system, training, quality rating (QRIS), and provider support.

  • Program

    T.E.A.C.H. Scholarships

    Scholarships that help child care professionals earn credentials and degrees while they work.

  • Program

    NAEYC Accreditation Support

    Help for programs pursuing NAEYC accreditation, the national mark of quality for early learning.

  • Program

    Idaho ECE Job Connections

    The early childhood job board, Idaho AEYC openings and early education jobs across the state.

All of it

Every provider resource in one place