Partner With
The Arkansas Childcare Bridge

The Arkansas Childcare Bridge is building a statewide network of participating licensed childcare providers to help eligible Arkansas families maintain stable care.

Providers may submit interest for consideration. Participation requires licensing verification, program review, direct-payment acceptance, documentation, reporting, and compliance with program requirements.

Provider Interest Form

Who Can Participate?

Licensed in Arkansas

The physical location must hold an active Arkansas childcare license or other applicable authorization. Any corrective, conditional, renewal, or compliance status must be disclosed.

Serving Young Children

The location should currently offer full-time, year-round childcare for at least one age group from birth through age five.

Direct-Payment Ready

The provider must be willing to accept approved payments directly from Uniting Voices and apply each payment only to the authorized child’s account and approved childcare period.

Reporting and Verification

The provider must be willing to verify tuition, attendance, family payments, other assistance, credits, and balances and provide required reports or clarification when requested.

Before You Submit

Approval Is Not Guaranteed

Submission or provider approval does not guarantee family referrals, family eligibility, funding, payment, or continued participation.

Providers Cannot Promise Assistance

Providers may not advertise or imply that a family is guaranteed approval, funding, or payment through The Arkansas Childcare Bridge.

No Duplicate Payment

Submission or provider approval does not guarantee family referrals, family eligibility, funding, payment, or continued participation.

How Provider Participation Works

1. Submit Provider Interest

An authorized provider representative submits information about the childcare location, licensing, services, enrollment, rates, and participation readiness.

2. Initial Review

The Arkansas Childcare Bridge reviews the submission and determines whether additional information or a full provider application is needed.

3. Verification and Vetting

Licensing, service eligibility, tuition, enrollment, compliance disclosures, and provider information may be independently verified.

4. Participation Agreement

Providers selected to continue must complete required participation, confidentiality, reporting, direct-payment, and program-compliance steps.

5. Family and Payment Authorization

Payments are issued only after an eligible family, approved childcare period, provider participation, documentation, and available funding are confirmed in writing.

Provider Interest Form

Complete this form for each physical childcare location interested in participating. This is an initial interest form, not final approval or a guarantee of referrals, funding, or payment.

Do not submit banking information, passwords, payment credentials, Social Security numbers, or secure tax records through this form. Additional documents may be requested securely during later review.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • No. The Arkansas Childcare Bridge is a privately supported childcare assistance program operated by Uniting Voices.

  • No. Funding depends on family eligibility, provider participation, available funds, written approval, documentation, and ongoing compliance.

  • Approved payments are made directly to participating childcare providers and applied only to the authorized child’s account and approved period.

  • No. Providers may not promise, advertise, or imply guaranteed family approval, funding, or payment.

  • No. The Arkansas Childcare Bridge cannot pay the same childcare expense already covered by another source for the same child and period.

  • Each physical location and license may be required to submit separate information and complete separate review.

  • Yes. Participating providers may be required to report attendance, tuition, family payments, other assistance, Bridge payments, credits, and remaining balances.