DSS For Service Providers

Requests for ProposalS

• Request for Proposals

TANF PerformancE

• Report Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) Performance

Child Care Providers

Child Care Providers: Register your facility's e-mail address with DSS.

• Important updates from Division of Child Care and Early Childhood Education (Updated 02.04.10)
  
• Child Care Providers - Locate child care providers in your area.
• Class A Standards - Class 'A' Child Care Center minimum standards.
• Class B Standards - Class 'B' Child Care Center minimum standards.
• Sample Forms for Child Care Providers - View and download sample forms for use by your child care center (including field trip permission, daily logs and more).
• Child Care Staff Training - Approved training courses are available for staff to meet the continuing education requirements (applies To Class A Child Day Care Centers).
• Child Care Assistance Program
  
  • How to become a CCAP provider - Information on applying to become eligible to receive CCAP payments.
    
  • For existing CCAP providers - Information on renewing CCAP eligiblity.
  • CCAP Services - Training and Technical Assistance that child care providers need in order to maintain a Class A license or registration of a child care facility.
• Criminal Background Check Requirements for Child Care Providers
• Division of Child Care and Early Childhood Education - OFS office that houses the Child Care Licensing and Regulatory Section and the Quality Start Child Care Rating System, and administers the Child Care and Development Fund.

Residential Care Providers
Important updates from OCS Licensing for Residential Care providers (Updated 01.28.10)
Licensing
Licenses and develops licensing regulations for child care, adult residential, child placing agencies, child emergency shelters, maternity homes, etc.

• OFS Licensing - Child Care Centers.
• OCS Licensing - Adult Residential Facilities, Child Residential Facilities, Adoption Agencies, Child Foster Care Agencies, Emergency Shelters, Maternity Homes and Transitional Youth Residences.
• Licensing Agency Upload - Allows licensing agencies to send databases to upload into LASES.

Find Services/Resources

• Find Services/Resources - An online system which emcompasses the following:
  
  • allows you to determine your potential eligibility for DSS services
  • provides a central resource directory for Louisiana’s 211 agencies (United Way) and DSS  resources and providers so that you can find a specific resource or service to meet your needs within a specified area.
  • allows you to request an appointment with participating DSS agencies.
  • provides information on becoming a Foster Care/Adoptive Parent
  • provides information on reporting Child Abuse or Neglect
  • provides information on how to list your Agency in the DSS Resource Directory 

New Hire Registry

• New Hire Registry