About the Office of Child Care
The Office of Child Care (OCC) is part of the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). OCC’s work is best summed up by the following mission statement:
OCC supports low-income working families by providing access to affordable early care and afterschool programs, as well as improving the quality of programs. OCC administers the CCDF and works with state, territory, and tribal governments to provide support for children and their families juggling work schedules and struggling to find child care programs that will meet their needs and that will prepare children to succeed in school and in life. OCC is part of ACF, within the U.S. Department of HHS.
CCDF also improves the quality of care to promote children’s healthy development and learning by supporting child care licensing, quality improvement systems to help programs meet higher standards, and training and education for child care workers. OCC establishes and oversees the implementation of child care policies and provides guidance and technical assistance to states, tribes, and territories as they administer CCDF programs.[1]
Office of Child Care Contact Information
Office of Child Care
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Administration for Children and Families
Mary E. Switzer Building
330 C ST SW, 4th Floor
Washington, DC 20201.
Phone: 202-401-4802
Fax: 202-401-5706
Regional Office Contacts [2]
The regional offices oversee the programmatic and financial management of Administration for Children and Families (ACF) programs in each Region and provide guidance to grantees and various entities responsible for administering these programs. All regional offices represent ACF to state, county, city, and tribal governments; grantees; and public and private organizations in their Regions. There are 10 regional offices located in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) regional locations.
Within each office, the OCC regional office teams work most directly with CCDF grantees in their respective Regions. Led by Regional Program Managers (RPMs) and supported by Program Specialists, the OCC regional offices coordinate with the OCC central office as needed, and support CCDF Lead Agencies in working through policy and program questions and in activities such as technical assistance planning and error rate reduction.
| Region I | Shireen Riley Regional Program Manager OCC/ACF/HHS John F. Kennedy Federal Building 20th Floor, Suite 2000 15 New Sudbury Street Boston, MA 02203 Phone: 617-565-1152 Fax: 617-565-1578 Email: [email protected] |
Region VI | Gwendolyn Jones Regional Program Manager OCC/ACF/HHS 1301 Young Street, Suite 958 Dallas, TX 75202 Phone: 214-767-3849 Fax: 214-767-8890 Email: [email protected] |
| Region II | Shonda Laurel Regional Program Manager OCC/ACF/HHS Jacob K. Javits Federal Building 26 Federal Plaza, Room 4114 New York, NY 10278 Phone: 646-905-8157 Fax: 212-264-4881 Email: [email protected] |
Region VII | Doris Hallford Regional Program Manager OCC/ACF/HHS Federal Office Building, Room 349 601 East 12th Street Kansas City, MO 64106 Phone: 816-426-2264 Fax: 816-426-2888 Email: [email protected] |
| Region III | Agda Burchard Regional Program Manager OCC/ACF/HHS Strawbridge Building, Suite 8300 801 Market Street Philadelphia, PA 19107 Phone: 215-861-4096 Fax: 215-426-2888 Email: [email protected] |
Region VIII | Karen Knoll-Moran Regional Program Manager OCC/ACF/HHS Byron Rogers Federal Office Building 1961 Stout Street 8th Floor Denver, CO 80294 Phone: 303-844-1164 Fax: 303-844-3642 Email: [email protected] |
| Region IV | Eric Blanchette Regional Program Manager OCC/ACF/HHS Sam Nunn Federal Center, Suite 4M60 61 Forsyth Street, S.W. Atlanta, GA 30303-8909 Phone: 404-562-2782 Fax: 404-562-2985 Email: [email protected] |
Region IX | Christina Warren Regional Program Manager OCC/ACF/HHS San Francisco Federal Building 90 7th Street, Ninth Floor San Francisco, CA 94103 Phone: 415-437-8450 Fax: 415-437-8444 Email: [email protected] |
| Region V | Gena Miller Regional Program Manager OCC/ACF/HHS 233 N. Michigan Avenue Fourth Floor, Suite 400 Chicago, IL 60601 Phone: 312-353-3270 Fax: 312-353-2629 Email: [email protected] |
Region X | Paul Noski Regional Program Manager OCC/ACF/HHS Columbia Tower, Suite 1510, MS 74 701 Fifth Avenue Seattle, WA 98104 Phone: 206-615-2609 Fax: 206-615-2574 Email: [email protected] |
[1] Office of Child Care. (n.d.). OCC fact sheet. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families. https://www.acf.hhs.gov/occ/fact-sheet-occ
[2] CCDBG Act of 2014 658D(b); Child Care and Development Fund, 45 C.F.R. §§ 98.10–98.11 (2016).