Child Care Connection has announced its schedule of CPR/First Aid classes for the second quarter of 2023.  Click here for the flyer with all the details.  

Child Care Connection has updated its Mercer County Quick Facts: Children, Families, and Child Care.  For a copy, Click Here.

The Hiring and Retention Bonus Grant is reopening for applications on Tuesday, November 1, 2022.  Applications will be accepted through Sunday, December 4, 2022.  For more information, Click Here.

Child Care Connection will hold CPR & First Aid training for child care providers from October through December 2022. See attached flyer for all the details!

On October 26, the NJ Division of Family Development announced the extension of enrollment-based child care subsidy payments through June 2023.   You will receive payments based on enrollment for children enrolled in the State’s Child Care Assistance Program through that time.  As a reminder, providers should continue to utilize the payment portal (EPPIC) and record absences of children receiving funds through the Child Care Assistance Program.  Should you have any questions, please call our Fiscal Unit at 609/989-9101 or e-mail the NJ Division of Family Development/Office of Child Care at

The State has announced that the recertification process will begin in December 2022. For more information and How-To Videos and Documents, visit the ChildCareNJ.gov NJ ARP Stabilization Grants page. 

Child Care Connection has added a job bank to our website for Mercer County-based child care centers seeking employees. Please contact if you would like to post a job opening.  To look at the posted job openings, Click Here.

The New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA)  approved the creation of the $54.5 million Child Care Facilities Improvement Pilot Program for child care centers and family child care homes. Through Phase 1 of the program, the NJEDA will provide nearly $15 million in grants of up to $200,000 to licensed child care centers in New Jersey to cover the costs of facility improvements. The Child Care Facilities Improvement Program provides grants to New Jersey child care providers for facilities improvements that will contribute to high quality early childhood learning environments.  Grant applications will be accepted beginning at 10 a.m. on November 15, 2022.  

A variety of open positions are posted on our website.  Click Here for Employment Opportunities

The Department of Human Services/Division of Family Development is conducting a study that compares the cost of basing child care assistance program payments on attendance to the cost of enrollment.  All programs that have children enrolled who receive child care subsidy are expected to participate. For more information Click Here.