Find Child Care
Finding care in the MCCA network is quick and easy by following these steps:
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Learn about the participating child care providers
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Click on the "Learn more & Enrollment" button associated with the provider you are interested in. From there you'll be taken to each program's profile page where you can book a tour, join their waitlist, or apply for an open spot.
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The first time you join a provider's waitlist, you'll be prompted to sign up for your free Kinside account. After creating your account, your family's details will pre-populate, making it easy to sign up for multiple waitlists quickly.
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PRIORITY STATUS:
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If you are an employee of a participating business member then you receive priority status on all of the waitlists. During registration, you will be asked if you are an employee of Clearwater Credit Union and asked for your work email.
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If you qualify for the Best Beginnings Scholarship then you receive priority status second to the business membership.
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That's it!
If a slot becomes available that meets your needs, you will be notified via email or text. From there, it is up to families and the provider to communicate about next steps.
Got questions?
Questions about how waitlists or Kinside works?
Reach out to the Kinside Concierge Team at concierge@kinside.com.
Providers in our network
Meet our MCCA providers! The enrollment links below will allow you to learn more about each provider, ask questions, schedule tours, and join waitlists. As a reminder, all of the providers in the MCCA network are independent child care business owners and not operated in any way by MCCA.
Mountain Peak Preschool and Childcare
Mountain Peak Preschool and Childcare
- About: At Mountain Peak Preschool and Childcare we believe in teaching the whole child. We want to engage and foster each child's individual strengths and build upon those. We know how important a language-rich environment is in laying the foundations for early literacy skills. We also recognize that play is the most valuable form of learning in these early years. Keeping these things in mind, through a language rich environment and play-based curriculum, we will foster students' learning and let them explore, create, imagine, and communicate. We also focus on helping each child meet their full social emotional potential. We want to build school readiness in this area by helping them be ready to share, make friends, communicate their needs, have good sportsmanship, be empathetic, etc. Students have many opportunities to learn in morning circle and center time. Students can then practice these skills during free play and exploration where they can predict, hypothesize, question, dramatize, create, and so much more to show their learning.
Hours of Operation: 7:00am-5:30pm M-F
Ages Served: 0-5
Languages Taught and/or Spoken: English and baby sign language
Summer Crow Academy
- About: Summer Crow Academy is a play and nature based home child care. I believe that children thrive outdoors and we pride ourselves on going outside every day, rain or shine. The crow is clever, curious, and kind! Three things we want all children to grow to be. At Summer Crow Academy, your children might come home with messy clothes but happy hearts. We use positive guidance strategies and treat all children as if they are capable and respected. This is a home environment where young children will learn and create relationships in a small, intimate, cozy setting.
Hours of Operation: 8:30-4:30pm, M-F (alternating Fridays)
Ages Served: 12mo-6years
Languages taught and/or spoken: English
The Magic Forest Preschool and Childcare
- At The Magic Forest Preschool and Childcare, we strive to discover and nurture the innate brilliance of each child through play-based curriculum, experiences and exploration. We curate our space and relationships to encourage a home-away-from-home feeling for the families we partner with. After all, it takes a village!
Hours of Operation: 7:30am-5:30pm
Ages Served: 0-6
Languages Taught and/or Spoken: English and basic ASL
Glacier Peak Preschool
- About: At Glacier Peak Preschool and Childcare we believe in teaching the whole child. We want to engage and foster each child's individual strengths and build upon those. We know how important a language-rich environment is in laying the foundations for early literacy skills. We also recognize that play is the most valuable form of learning in these early years. Keeping these things in mind, through a language rich environment and play-based curriculum, we will foster students' learning and let them explore, create, imagine, and communicate. We also focus on helping each child meet their full social emotional potential. We want to build school readiness in this area by helping them be ready to share, make friends, communicate their needs, have good sportsmanship, be empathetic, etc. Students have many opportunities to learn in morning circle and center time. Students can then practice these skills during free play and exploration where they can predict, hypothesize, question, dramatize, create, and so much more to show their learning.
Hours of Operation: 7:00am-5:30pm M-F
Ages Served: 0-12
Languages Taught and/or Spoken: English and baby sign language
Montessori Plus International
- About: Since the founding in 2015, as a small-scale, top-quality, bilingual early childhood education program, Montessori Plus International (MPI) has served over a hundred families in Missoula. Currently MPI is a state licensed, STAR 4 Early Childhood Education Center with assessment scores way surpassing the requirement for STAR 5, the highest level in the quality rating system. (We chose to stay at STAR 4 because we decided that, instead of going through the national accreditation process - an extra step required by STAR 5, we’d rather focus our limited time and energy on supporting current students, staff, and families in our school community).
Hours of operation: M-F, 8:00 Am - 5:00 PM
Ages Served: 1 month - 12 years
Languages taught and/or spoken: English and Mandarin
Fort Courage Childcare
- About: Fort Courage Childcare is a play-based early learning environment. We strive to foster empathy, curiosity and exploration through play-based environmental learning that also promotes the development of social emotional, physical and cognitive skills. Our program works to meet the needs of the individual child to build trust and address their specific needs and interests
Hours of Operation: 7:00am-5:30pm M-F
Languages taught and/or spoken: English
Small Bird Daycare
- About: Hi, my name is Ghalia and I'm looking forward to meeting you! I will take care of your children, like they're my own. This is the first time I have my own child care program but I've worked at another child care program for three years to gain experience. I will speak and sing to the kids in Arabic and start teaching them how to write in Arabic as well.
Hours of operation: M-F, 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Ages Served: 1 month - 5 years old
Languages taught and/or spoken: English and Arabic
Montessori Plus International - Cold Springs
- About: Since the founding in 2015, as a small-scale, top-quality, bilingual early childhood education program, Montessori Plus International (MPI) has served over a hundred families in Missoula. Currently MPI is a state licensed, STAR 4 Early Childhood Education Center with assessment scores way surpassing the requirement for STAR 5, the highest level in the quality rating system. (We chose to stay at STAR 4 because we decided that, instead of going through the national accreditation process - an extra step required by STAR 5, we’d rather focus our limited time and energy on supporting current students, staff, and families in our school community).
Hours of operation: M-F, 8:00 Am - 5:00 PM
Ages Served: 1 month - 12 years
Languages taught and/or spoken: English and Mandarin
