Current Providers
Are you looking to update your information?
If you are a child care business owner or director login or create an ePass Montana account to:
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Renew Your License
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Update Staff List
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Update Insurance Documents
Click the links below if you need to:
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Register for online courses at ChildCareTraining.org
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Registry - Event Search - the MT Early Childhood Project calendar of all training approved for licensing continuing education.
Want to Become a Provider?
Follow the steps below to find out more information:
Resources to help you get started:
Learn how to start a Homebased Child Care Business
Discover the different types of child care
First steps to opening a child care business:
Create an ePass Montana account
First steps to becoming a caregiver:
In order to be accepted and meet Child Care Licensing Requirements:
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CPR must be completed in a hands on setting and include Adult, Child, and Infant modules.
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First Aid must be Pediatric First Aid
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CPR/First Aid cards submitted must list ALL information (including Adult CPR) in order to be accepted.
Only licensed facilities are eligible for Best Beginnings Child Care Scholarship payments, the Child and Adult Care Food Program, STARS to Quality, and facility grants.
Part-time programs do not have to be licensed in Montana. Preschools and school-age programs operating a few hours a day or only part of the year are exempt from licensing. Drop-in care also falls in this category.