North Dakota Child Care Professionals, Inc. (NDCCPI) is a statewide non-profit organization whose mission is to advocate for children and for the excellence in child care and supplemental parental care.  We work to support fair, just, reasonable and uniform ordinances, laws, rules and regulations affecting the business of child care and children’s issues.  We strive to promote networking and fellowship amongst child care professionals.  We hope to create greater statewide awareness of the important role of early childhood education as well as problems faced by child care professionals.  We strive to show the public that child care is a profession.  As an advocacy group, we promote professionalism by offering training and education in the areas of child development, business management, developmentally appropriate practice as well as many other areas of interest to child care professionals and parents.