Division of Early Childhood Care & Development

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Investing in Mississippi’s future by supporting the care and development of young children in the state.

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Become a Child Care Payment Program Provider

IMPORTANT CCPP INFORMATION

ECCD is currently only accepting applications for the Child Care Payment Program for families who fall within the following categories: TANF families and families transitioning away from TANF assistance, MDCPS foster care children, teen parents, families with children that have special needs, deployed military families, and homeless families. DECCD is unable to accept any applications for families that do not fall within these categories. This includes new applications, applications for redetermination, and applications to add a child to a family’s existing certificate.

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The Division of Early Childhood Care & Development administers programs that support child care across the state for the benefit of everyone involved: parents, employers, providers, and especially the children themselves.

All of Mississippi’s workforce benefits from having quality child care options.

Through the Child Care Payment Program, the Division of Early Childhood Care & Development (DECCD) helps parents and guardians find reliable, quality child care, and helps child care providers thrive as businesses.

FOR PARENTS

Parents who qualify for CCPP will be responsible for paying their child care provider a monthly
co-payment fee which will be based on family size and income.

Parent Information

For Providers

Participating CCPP child care providers are eligible to receive CCPP certificates from Mississippi parents and guardians for Child Care Services.

Provider Information

Become a CCPP Provider

Child Care Provider Licensing

Initiatives

Child Care Resource and Referral Centers (R&Rs)

R&Rs help parents find childcare by referring them to local childcare providers around the state. R&Rs also help child care providers by providing training and resources to the providers at no cost.

The services provided from R&Rs are:

Helping families and caregivers in identifying high quality services.
Providing developmental screenings to children ages 0-5.
Lending libraries that allow families and providers to access age-appropriate learning materials families.
Offering assistance and professional development to child care providers.