Welcome to 4Cs
The Community Child Care Council of Sonoma County - known as 4Cs - is a non-profit agency located in Sonoma County, California. 4Cs operates 13 child development centers and preschools throughout the county and the main office is in Santa Rosa. 4Cs is dedicated to supporting and providing quality, accessible and affordable preschool and child care services for children, families and child care professionals through education, resources, and direct services. California State Budget Process
Now is the time to advocate!
The Governor's May budget revision proposed to eliminate the state's child care infrastructure, which will drastically impact Sonoma County children, families and economy as well as our community's future stability and prosperity. For more information, please see the news stories listed in the blue box to the right.
Contact your state Senate and Assemblymember as well as the Governor and let them know that you:
• Support funding for subsidized child-care for children from birth through age 12. Children who receive free or low-cost child care are from low-income families where parents are working or in job-training programs.
• Support funding for child care for families working toward self-sufficiency and that if families lose this support service, they may also lose their jobs. If you are in this situation, please share your personal story.
• Support funding for child care that goes to small child-care businesses and supports economy of Sonoma County.
• Support funding for Child Care Resource & Referral Programs, including funding for provider trainings that increases the quality of care for children and free child care referrals for families of all income levels, data and statistics of the Sonoma County early childhood education field.
• Support funding the Centralized Eligibility List (CEL), that allows families to put their name on one waiting list instead of a list for each program. Currently, the Sonoma CEL contains more than 2,800 families who would never have a chance to be served if child care funding is cut.
Please help. Contact the governor and let him know you support funding for preschool and child care in California. Contact your representatives in the state Senate and Assembly and ask them to reject the governor's budget proposals. Click here for a one page list of local state representatives.
4Cs Joins the iWALK Challenge 
iWALK is a campaign to increase the number of people who walk regularly. iWALK is for everyone who lives or works in Sonoma County.
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