How To Work With Us As An Early Learning Program

• The provider must be a regulated child care provider as defined below: 
  • licensed by Texas Child Care Licensing (CCL);
  • registered with CCL;
• The provider cannot currently be on Corrective or Adverse Action with Child Care Licensing;
• The provider or any staff member cannot be in serious non-compliance, seriously deficient by, or debarred from either state or federal programs such as the child food and nutrition program;
• The provider agrees to accept the maximum reimbursement rates paid by Workforce Solutions for North Central Texas Child Care Services, unless the provider published rate is lower, which is the amount that will be reimbursed;
• The provider agrees to maintain documentation on CCS subsidized children for 3 years and 3 months as required by federal law.

• Gather the following documentation:
  1. A copy of your license or permit from the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, the Texas Child Care Licensing or United States military;
  2. A copy of the published rates you charge for child care for all age groups for which you provide services.
• Contact CCS at ccproviders@dfwjobs.com or 800-234-9306 and set up a time to meet with a Provider Service Specialist to go over requirements and gather additional information about your facility/home.
• Once all documentation has been provided, the Provider Service Specialist will set up a time to meet with you via telephone or at your facility/home to go over CCS policies and sign provider paperwork.

• The relative must be related to the child/ren by blood, marriage or court decree;
• The relative must be 18 years of age;
• The relative must be related in one of the following ways:
  • The child’s grandparent;
  • The child’s great-grandparent;
  • The child’s aunt or uncle; or
  • The child’s sibling (who resides in a separate residence);
• The parent and relative provider cannot live in the same home (some exceptions apply)
• The relative provider must become a listed provider with Child Care Licensing and sign a Provider Agreement before being paid to provide child care in the relative’s home;
• The relative provider cannot provide care for the child/children in the child’s home unless one of the following applies: The child has a disability that makes it difficult to take the child outside his/her home;
  • The child is under 18 months old;
  • The child is a child of a teen parent;
  • The parent's work schedule requires evening, overnight, or weekend child care in which taking the child outside of the child's home would be disruptive to the child;
  • Other child care provider arrangements are not available in the community.

Please contact Child Care Services at 940-382-6712 for relative provider packet.