Child Care Services Association: Child Care Services Association (CCSA), headquartered in the Triangle region of North Carolina, is a nationally recognized nonprofit working to ensure affordable, accessible, high quality child care for all families through research, services and advocacy.  CCSA provides free referral services to families seeking child care, technical assistance to child care businesses, and educational scholarships and salary supplements to child care professionals through the T.E.A.C.H. Early Childhood® and Child Care WAGE$® Projects.

Covenant with North Carolina’s Children: The Covenant with North Carolina's Children is a statewide nonprofit organization that advocates for children at the NC General Assembly.  Representing over 100 child advocacy organizations and individuals from around the state, the Covenant pushes for legislation in 8 issue areas -- child welfare, early childhood education, economic security, education, health, juvenile justice, mental health/substance abuse/developmental disabilities, and safety.  Check this site to find out who your elected officials are.

FPG Child Development Institute: FPG is one of the oldest multidisciplinary centers devoted to the study of children and families. Located at UNC-Chapel Hill, FPG conducts research on state initiatives, such as the More at Four program evaluation, as well as national research.  Researchers focus on parent and family support; early care and education; child health and development; early identification and intervention; equity, access and inclusion; and early childhood policy.

NC Board of Elections: This site offers many voter services: register to vote, research demographics, obtain your voting information, locate your polling place and find answers to many voting/election questions.

NC Department of Public Instruction: Responsible for K-12 education in NC.  Find information about curriculum, testing, data and statistics.

NC Division of Child Development: Responsible for child care licensing, regulations and subsidy in NC.  Information available for parents and providers.

NC Early Childhood Association: Membership organization dedicated to improving the quality of child care in North Carolina.  The association advocates for improvement of the working environment for early childhood professionals.  NCECA actively works in the development of legislation and statewide policies that affect children, families, teachers and child care programs.

NC Institute for Early Childhood Professional Development: The Institute serves as an advisory group to the Division of Child Development in the NC Department of Health & Human Services in matters related to developing an educated work force to care for children who are in group care.  Information is available for professional development providers and child care providers.

NC Office of Early Learning: The mission of the Office of Early Learning (OEL) is to prepare children for school success through high-quality early education. The office supports publicly funded preschool programs including Title 1 and Exceptional Children’s programs throughout North Carolina in public schools.  OEL is part of the NC Department of Public Instruction.

NC Partnership for Children: Provides statewide oversight of the Smart Start initiative.  Smart Start is a public-private initiative that provides funding to all of the state’s 100 counties to ensure that young children enter school healthy and ready to succeed.  NCPC provides technical assistance and training for local Smart Start partnerships.

NC Public School Success Program: The mission of Success Inc. is to support efforts to meet the needs of all young children and their families throughIn-service, Networking, and Collaboration among early childhood professionals, families, and agencies.  It is a resource for early childhood professionals and part of the NC Department of Public Instruction.

NC Ready Schools Initiative: The NC Ready Schools Initiative supports efforts by local school systems to begin the ready school planning process with each of their elementary schools.  Definition, assessment, models and resources are available at this site.

NC Smart Start : Smart Start is a public-private initiative that provides funding to all of the state’s 100 counties to ensure that young children enter school healthy and ready to succeed.  NCPC provides technical assistance and training for local Smart Start partnerships.