The State of Nevada Child Care Licensing website has information and resources to assist you with this process, including applications, trainings, and checklists.
The Nevada Child Care Licensing Forms website includes information and forms for fingerprinting and background checks, survey checklists, license renewals, and sample forms.
You can also access the Small Child Care Establishment registration form here.
The Children’s Cabinet and our community partners host training events for providers and early childhood professionals. These sessions are designed to help providers stay in compliance with state regulations, licensing practices, and industry standards, while enhancing knowledge and skills in early childhood education. The training ensures providers meet necessary requirements and stay up-to-date with best practices.
The Children's Cabinet Provider Trainings
The Nevada Registry Training Calendar
The Children's Cabinet Support & Coaching for Early Childhood Professionals
Inter-Tribal Council of NV Provider Assistance & Training Request
Nevada CCSCs are “one-stop-shops” for child care provider training, quality improvement supports, small business administration resources, networking, behavioral and health referrals for children, child care subsidy resources, small business loans, and early childhood substitute teachers.
Northern NV: 961 Matley Lane, Reno, NV 89502
Southern NV: 2651 North Green Valley Parkway, Henderson, NV 89014
If you have questions about the CCSCs, send an email to [email protected].
Access Virtual Hub
The Children’s Cabinet maintains a current list of child care provider scholarships and grant opportunities in Nevada.
Background Check Reimbursement
Financial Support is now available to reimburse child care providers for the cost of fingerprinting and background checks. Child Care providers and required household members can now request reimbursement using the background reimbursement online form. Please note that receipts are required to be considered for reimbursement.
Background Check Reimbursement Request Form
This training series addresses budgeting, financial controls, marketing, and staff recruitment and retention strategies. These modules were created with the belief that strong and sustainable child care businesses can improve the outcomes for our children. See our Strengthening Business Practices Training Series flyer to find out more.
Strengthening Business Practices
The Nevada Child Care Cost Model is a tool to help caregivers, programs and other early care and education and child care leaders estimate the true cost of providing child care in their communities. The model includes county and subsidy region specific data and users can also choose to enter their own data for a more customized child care cost scenario.
Nevada Child Care Cost Model Tool
Nevada Child Care Cost Model Technical User Guide
Nevada Pyramid Model
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The Pyramid Model promotes evidence-based practices that support positive social-emotional skills for young children, such as recognizing emotions in self and others, learning rules and expectations, self-regulation, and positive social interactions with peers. Find out more by visiting The Children's Cabinet Support & Coaching for Early Childhood Professionals website.
Nevada Association for the Education of Young Children
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The Nevada Association for the Education of Young Children (NevAEYC) is the state affiliate organization of the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). NevAEYC promotes high-quality early learning for all children, birth through age 8, by connecting practice, policy, and research. We advance a diverse, dynamic early childhood profession and support all who care for, educate, and work on behalf of young children.
Child Care Provider Action Committee
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The Child Care Provider Action Committee (CCPAC) is a coalition of Nevada’s early childhood educators dedicated to ensuring that state policy is shaped by the practical expertise and direct voices of those operating on the front lines of child care.
Silver State Stars Quality Rating Improvement System
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Nevada Silver State Stars QRIS creates a culture of continuous quality improvement for Nevada’s child care programs. QRIS is a method to assess, improve and communicate the level of quality in early childhood programs. Programs are assigned a rating, from 1 to 5 stars, to assist parents in finding quality care and education provider for their child.
The Nevada Registry
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The Nevada Registry is Nevada’s one-stop-shop for Early Care and Education (ECE) professionals in Nevada. Here you will find links to training, job listings, industry-related news, professional development planning tools – everything you need to support your career in Early Childhood!
First 5 Nevada, a program of The Children's Cabinet, is partially supported with funding from the Administration for Children and Families Child Care and Development Fund through a subaward agreement with the Nevada Division of Social Services, Child Care and Development Program (Grant #G00996005). First 5 Nevada was initially developed with funding from the Preschool Development Grant Birth through Five Initiative (PDG B-5), Grant Number 90TP0099, awarded to the Nevada Department of Education, from the Office of Child Care, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the the Office of Child Care, the Administration for Children and Families, or the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
