How Can I Find Childcare? For more information and referrals to licensed childcare programs, call the Child Care Referral hotline at (562) 256-7490 Monday-Friday, 9:00 am to 3:30 pm or visit www.chs-ca.org. General Information The Early Child Care and Education Web Site is a project of the Long Beach Early Care and Education Committee, a sub-committee of the Board of Health and Human Services.

The motto - Our Children, Our Community – was created and adopted by the original Task Force to represent their vision for the children of our community and our community's duty to our children.

Mission Statement To further the early care and education of all children in Long Beach by enhancing the quality of services; building our capacity to meet the needs of families; and expanding the base of resources.

Vision Statement The Long Beach community envisions a future in which all children in Long Beach will be cared for and educated in environments that: are stable, safe, healthy, enriching and nurturing promote lifelong learning, emotional security and family empowerment and support: enable children to learn and to reach their full potential embrace diversity; and are fostered actively and supported collaboratively as a priority by all sectors of the community

For more information on Early Childcare and Education, please contact:
Tracy Colunga, Child Care Coordinator
(562) 570-4245 or email at Tracy_Colunga@longbeach.gov