Alliance for Children's Care, Education, and Supporting Services (ACCESS) is an alliance of early care and education providers and advocates whose mission is to ensure the availability of family focused services through collaborative relationships with traditional and non-traditional partners.

The Vision:

• Every family will be able to access early care and education in the setting of their choice.
• Every family in need of comprehensive early care and education services will receive them.
• Early care and education providers will become an inclusive community that welcomes, values, and supports all caregivers and parents.

The Mission:

• To achieve this vision, our mission is to build our community's capacity to offer and ensure that family focused services are available.
• This demands that we build collaborative relationships with partners concerned with the provision of education and human services to children from birth to age twelve.
• We must look beyond traditional partners to all those institutions that create the conditions that affect family life.

ACCESS Partners include:

• Maine Association for Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies
• Maine Child Care Directors Association
• Maine Family Child Care Association
• Maine Head Start Directors Association
• Maine School Age Care Alliance
• Maine Division of Early Childhood

ACCESS is funded by the Bingham Betterment Foundation, the support of the Office of Child Care and Head Start, Maine Department of Human Services, the Muskie School of Public Service, and through many active partners.