AFCCA Volunteer Opportunities

The Alaska Family Child Care Association is currently seeking to fill several volunteer positions.  If you are interested in becoming involved in the Alaska Family Child Care Association on it's board, chapters, committees or just to volunteer, please contact AFCCA by email at afcca@alaskafcca.org or come to a meeting and share your interest. 

            AFCCA Chapters Wanted 
        & Needed Throughout the State!

The Alaska Family Child Care Association would like to help develop Chapters of the Association in your neighborhood.  Through our association and chapters of our association, members receive support and information as well as have a chance to share his/her own knowledge and expertise with their peers. 

By forming local chapters in your community there is an advantage of being able to work directly with it's members through these chapters.  Thus creating a local voice for our members as well as creating a stronger impact on legislative and funding issues within our state and at national levels.

Benefit of AFCCA Chapters:

• Provide networking opportunity to providers to help eliminate feelings of isolation.
• Provide support and empower providers in your neighborhood.
• Provide mentoring among providers.
• Provides an opportunity to promote professionalism as well as quality child care among providers.    
• Provide structured meetings to share information among providers.
• Provide more training opportunities to providers.

If you are interest, please contact AFCCA by email at afcca@alaskafcca.org or come to a meeting to share your interest. 

    Announcing AFCCA Board of Director Elections

The Alaska Family Child Care Association is looking for individuals who are committed to AFCCA's Mission and dedicated to our organization's goals. 

• AFCCA believes in supporting our greatest assets, our members, by advocating for family child care providers as well as supporting them and their business of caring for children. 
• AFCCA also sponsors the USDA Child Care Food Program knowing the importance of nutrition for the children in our care.
  
• AFCCA also promotes professionalism in the field of family child care and early education by providing educational opportunities, networking, support and mentoring to family child care providers by family child care providers. 
  
• AFCCA holds an annual "For the Love of Kids" Child Care Conference each year that supports our continued mission of promoting and developing quality professional home based child care throughout the state of Alaska.
  
• AFCCA also celebrates annual events such as Provider Appreciation Day (National Day held the Friday before Mother's Day), For the Love of Kids Day (celebrating AFCCA's Anniversary), Volunteer of the Year (Recognizing AFCCA's Volunteers), Provider of the Year (Recognizing outstanding family child care providers), and more. 

AFCCA holds it's annual Membership Elections in May each year.  Board members are elected by AFCCA's membership.  Chapter and committee chairs are appointed by the President.  Board terms are for three years each and are staggered to that AFCCA can retain experienced members throughout the election process.  Board term begins on June 1st and ends May 31st.

If you are interested in holding a volunteer position on AFCCA's Board of Directors, Chapter or Committee Chair, please complete and submit the Board Application.