Broward Child Care Resources & Referral Services
Is a FREE service to ALL families seeking information and referral services about quality early care and school readiness programs and out of school time solutions.
Our Resource and Referral Specialist assist parents/guardians during a individualized search consultation for childcare resources, which is kept confidential.
If you are interested in learning about quality childcare, childcare options, a prescreening for the childcare waitlist…contact our Resource and Referral Hotline at 954-724-4609.
All data provided and all listings of service providers or programs are referrals and not recommendations.
Resource and Referral Specialists also assist in the recruitment, startup and support of providers and promote quality, availability and affordability of services available in their communities.
Family Central, Inc. is part of the statewide AWI- Office of Early Learning (OEL) Resource and Referral (R & R) Network Office. This office maintains the only comprehensive statewide database of child care, school readiness and school age programs and service providers.
You may call the AWI-OEL R&R Network Office at 1-866-357-3239
If you have a complaint/concern about the services that you received when you requested your child care listing or about a child care provider please feel free to contact us for specific questions or issues.
Other Information Resources:
- Department of Children and Families Child Care Home Page
- Child Care Provider Licensing Report
- Abuse Registry
- Florida Directory of Early Childhood Services web site (Central Directory)
- Families with children who have disabilities and/or special health care needs
- Early care and education providers needing information, consultation services and/or technical assistance in serving all children.
- You may also call the Florida Directory of Early Childhood Services at 1-800-654-4440.
There are no charges/fees associated with a provider listing in the Child Care Resource & Referral Database or for referrals to your program. If you are asked to provide a payment for a referral or listing in the Child Care Resource & Referral database, please call the Agency for Workforce Innovation’s Office of Early Learning at 1-866-357-3239. The information reported about a provider’s program is objective program information that is based on standards that are attainable for providers based on their type of care.