Child Care for Providers
Learn what you need to become an accredited child care facility and the guidelines for providing quality care. The Texas Rising Star (TRS) certification program is a quality rating system for Texas early childhood programs.
PROVIDER Check Release
Maximum Reimbursement Rates
Child Care Services Guide of March 9, 2023
Child Care Services Provider Handbook
Read the CCS Provider Handbook by clicking here
Texas Rising Star (TRS)
The Texas Rising Star program is “a quality-based childcare rating system of childcare providers participating in the Texas Workforce Commission’s subsidized childcare program.” TRS Certification is available to Licensed Center and Licensed and Registered Child Care Home providers who meet the certification criteria. The TRS Provider certification system offers three levels of certification (Two-Star, Three-Star, and Four-Star) to encourage providers to attain progressively higher certification requirements leading to a Four-Star level.
Texas Child Care Availability Portal - How Providers Can Update Availability
Log in at this website and follow the steps. Below, please find a step by step guide.
https://childcare.bowtiebi.com/Texaschildcareform
If you need Spanish, simply click the globe at the top right to change languages.
Information in English and Spanish is also available here
Helpful Links for Providers
- Child Development links from the Texas Child Care Solutions.
- Development Milestones & Screening from the Children’s Learning Institute.
- Online courses for child care providers professional development from Texas A&M AgriLife Extension.
- Texas Workforce Registry helps early childhood professionals keep track of all of their education and employment history along with tracking hours of training.
- Texas Education Agency is the state agency to oversee primary and secondary public education. Find accrediting educator certification programs, information to obtain a teaching certificate, curriculum standards and more. The Pre-K guidelines for Texas are also listed on the site.
- The National Association for the Education of Young Children provides several resources to advance the early childhood profession.