Who is AFCCA?

AFCCA, Alaska Family Child Care Association, is a non-profit organization started in 1983 by a group of family child care providers interested in quality child care. Still to this day, family child care providers are coming together to volunteer their time and energy to enhance the awareness of quality child care. Those volunteering on AFCCA’s Board of Directors and on committees of AFCCA are all child care providers just like yourselves.

What is AFCCA’s Mission?

Alaska Family Child Care Association promotes and develops quality professional home based child care.

What is the purpose of AFCCA?

The purpose for which AFCCA is formed are exclusively charitable, educational, and scientific and consist of the following:
~To bring together a group of people interested in quality child care.
~To extend the opportunities available to family child care providers by obtaining and dissemination information, training, support, and technical assistance in early childhood care, child development and education.
~To promote quality family child care awareness and understanding among providers, family and the community.
~To do activities within the parameter of Alaska Statutes and Section 501(c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code, which may be necessary, useful, or desirable for accomplishment of the purpose of the AFCCA.