The Pennsylvania Child Care Association (PACCA) is a statewide, non-profit organization dedicated to facilitating the provision of quality early care and education to the children of Pennsylvania. The association shall:

• advocate to enhance the status of the child
• promote the value of educationally appropriate child care to the general public;
• be a statewide resource regarding early care and education;
• advocate at the local, state and federal levels for quality early care and education that responds to the needs of Pennsylvania children and families;
• provide a forum in which members can work cooperatively to develop programs and provide services;
• serve as a mechanism to coordinate and offer services to its members; and
• care profession.

PACCA’s core values are as follows:

• PACCA believes that all children have a right to a safe, healthy and developmentally stimulating early care and education experience.
• PACCA supports public policies that enable all families to have access to stable, affordable, quality early care and education for their children.
• PACCA exists to represent and be a resource for all legal child care programs regardless of structure (not for profit, for profit and public programs), type (family, group and center) or service offering (infant through school age).
• PACCA respects and is sensitive to the needs of providers as they serve children from all income levels, abilities and cultures.
• PACCA holds to a high standard of integrity as the benchmark of our work in striving to improve practices and policies for early care and education

For more information on PACCA, please visit:  http://www.pacca.org/default.aspx