Whether you’re a parent or provider, navigating New Hampshire’s childcare landscape can be tricky. With hundreds of programs and varying resources, it’s difficult to know where to start as a parent or provider.
To help address those challenges, the state contracts with the Community Action Partnership of Hillsborough and Rockingham Counties, which provides statewide child care resource and referral services through Child Care Aware of New Hampshire. Child Care Aware helps families, providers, and programs with various childcare-related issues, such as helping families find a childcare program, assisting with New Hampshire Connections, administering nationally registered early education apprenticeship programs, and more.
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