Mission:
The mission of the Family Child Care Association of Maine (FCCAM) is to unify, promote and strengthen quality professional family child care in the State of Maine.
Goals:
The goal of FCCAM is to achieve the highest standards in Maine’s diverse legal family child care homes promoting the physical, intellectual, emotional, and social development of children by:
- Enhancing the quality of family child care
- Strengthening and expanding the family child care network
- Providing support through mentoring and resources to family child care providers
- Communicating a positive image and information about the benefits of Family Child Care to the broad community (local, state, federal) through research, advocacy, legislation and effective marketing
- Coordinating with community and social service agencies at all levels to support children and families
- Developing leadership and advocacy skills for family child care providers through education, training, exposure and identifying ways to be proactive
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