Rhode Island Licensing Standards for Day Care Centers

Teacher: Must have a current Rhode Island certificate in early childhood education or a bachelor's or master's degree in early childhood education from an accredited or approved school and a minimum of three months supervised teaching experience in a licensed or approved early childhood program (which may be a student teaching experience) or a bachelor's degree from an accredited or approved school and required course work and experience defined in Rhode Island Early Childhood Certification standards.

Age Range	Ratio For Child Care Centers
Infants	(1:4)
Toddlers	(1:6)
3 years	(1:9)
4 years	(1:10)
5 years	(1:12)
Schoolage	(1:13)
Mixed age group	depends on number/age of youngest child in group

Age Range	Ratio For Family Child Care
If care is provided to child under 18 months of age, care for no more than 4 children under 6 years, no more than 2 of which can be under the age of 18 months; providers may have up to 8 children if there is an approved assistant; no more than 4 may be under 18 months old.

Child Care Licensing Agency Rhode Island Department of Children, Youth, and Families Day Care Licensing Unit 101 Friendship Street Providence, RI 02903-3716 Phone: (401) 528-3623 Fax: (401) 528-3650	Child Care Subsidy Agency Rhode Island Department of Human Services Office of Child Care Louis Pasteur Building #57 600 New London Avenue Cranston, RI 02920 Phone: (401) 452-6875 Fax: (401) 462-6878
Head Start - State Collaboration Office Department of Human Services Louis Pasteur Building 600 New London Avenue Cranston, RI, 02920 Phone: (401) 462-3071 Fax: (401) 462-6878	Child Care Food Program Agency Comprehensive School Health & Nutrition Rhode Island Department of Education Office of School Improvement and Support Services 255 Westminster Street, Shephard Bldg. Providence, Rhode Island 02903-3400 Phone: (401) 222-4600 ext. 2364 Fax: (401) 222-4979
State Child Care Resource & Referral Contact Options for Working Parents 1441 Park Avenue, Suite B Cranston, RI 02920 Phone: (401) 946-2300 Toll Free: (800) 244-8700 Fax: (401) 946-2301	Office of Child Support Enforcement Office of Child Support Services Department of Human Services 77 Dorrance Street Providence, Rhode Island 02903 Phone: (401) 222-4368 Fax: (401) 222-2887
Child Abuse Reporting To report suspected child abuse in Rhode Island, call 1-800-RI-CHILD (1-800-742-4453). For national child abuse information, call the Childhelp USA National Child Abuse Hotline (staffed 24 hours daily with professional crisis counselors): 1-800-4-A-CHILD or 1-800-2-A-CHILD (T.D.D)