SAL Home Child Care Network trains home child care providers to help ensure the highest quality of care is provided by offering free training and courtesy home visits with activities and crafts for the children, CPR/First Aid certification, and professional development opportunities.

Training for child care providers is offered both through SAL Child Care Resource and Referral programs for all licensed and license-exempt centers and homes in the 16-county IL area from the Quad Cities to central Illinois, and through SAL Home Child Care Network Moline, Galesburg, and Peoria offices for licensed home providers who are part of the Network.

Provides focused help on improving the quality of children and families lives with a focus on insuring the accessibility, affordability, and quality of child care and early education in the southern fifteen counties in Illinois.

Services include Information to families on resources and programs in the region, referrals to families for child care and early learning programs, financial assistance with child care costs to eligible families, resources and support for child care and early education programs.

Training, education, and professional development assistance to professionals and programs designed to promote continuous quality improvement, referral service contract for employers, an facilitation of community collaborations and community-based early childhood system building.

Nebraska AEYC provides opportunities that promote excellence in early childhood for Nebraska's early childhood educators, children and families through education, advocacy and leadership.

Programs offered include:

- T.E.A.C.H. Early Childhood Nebraska - T.E.A.C.H. (Teacher Education and Compensation Helps) is designed to provide educational scholarships for those working with young children in early childhood education settings. The scholarship addresses three key issues facing those in the early care and education field: the educational level of the staff, high turnover rates, and low wages.

- Quality Enhancement Projects work with a select group of participants who are interested in improving the quality of their early childhood programs. A mentor, in partnership with the childcare provider, utilizes the results of a classroom observation as a foundation for program improvement. The childcare provider and the mentor create a plan, based on the results of the observation, to acquire materials and/or training to improve the quality of their program.

- Rooted in Relationships/Pyramid Implementation Project works with childcare programs in Lancaster County to implement the Pyramid Model which supports the social-emotional development of young children.

- Circle of Security Parenting programs are designed to help parents learn how to respond to their child's needs in a way that enhances their connection with them and gives children a feeling of security and confidence so they can explore, learn, grow and build positive relationships.