Become an ERDC provider
To become an ERDC child care provider, you must:
- Meet all ERDC provider requirements
- Child care providers who aren't licensed need to meet additional training and safety requirements in order to be approved to provide child care through ERDC.
- Pass a background check
- Become listed and approved by DELC
Five reasons to become an ERDC provider
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Did you know that your family member, friend, or neighbor could get paid to care for your child?
View the family, friend, and neighbor flyer to learn more!
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Materials and forms
Provider Guide (de7492)
This guide is for current ERDC providers and people who want to provide child care for families who receive ERDC benefits.
12/28/23Provider Guide Insert (de7492i)
This Provider Guide insert contains ERDC rate tables and information about additional provider payments that are in effect as of January 1, 2024. ERDC rate tables can also be found here.
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Additional Payment Information
As of January 1, 2024, ERDC will pay an additional 9% for an ERDC payment that is processed late.
- For Home Based Providers: A payment is considered late when a legible and completed billing form is processed more than four business days after it was received by the Direct Pay Unit (DPU).
- For Center-Based Providers: A payment is considered late when a legible and completed billing form is processed more than seven business days after it was received by DPU.
Please review andsubmit the form below to the Direct Pay Unit if you believe your payment meets the required criteria. DPU will review your submission and will issue an additional payment to the provider if the payment is determined to have been processed late.
EmploymentRelated Day Care Additional Provider Payment Form
If you need assistance in another language, please call the Direct Pay Unit 1-800-699-9074.
Online Form
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Quick Tips for ERDC Families
This flyeris a resource for current ERDCproviders to share with participating families.
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Provider Listing Form (7494d)
This form is for people who want to be paid by DELC to provide child care through ERDC. Note: You need to be listed and approved by DELC before you start providing child care to families who receive ERDC benefits. The effective date for DELC payment can't be earlier than the date you are approved by DELC.
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Request for Direct Deposit
The Department of Early Learning and Care (DELC) offers "direct deposit" for child care provider payments.This means DELC can deposit your provider payments into your bank or credit union account.Direct Deposit is optional and it's free. Once it is set up, there is nothing else you need to do unless you makechanges to your account information. You may cancel at anytime by sending a written notice to the addresslisted at the bottom of this form.
If you would like to sign up for direct deposit, complete the formbelow. If you need support,contact DPU at 1-800-699-9074. You may send the form to DPU through the mail or scan and email a PDF toCustomerService.DPU@delc.oregon.gov.
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Administrative Hearing Request Form
If you disagree with a decision made by DELC, use this form to request a hearing.
Provider Report Form
Use this form to report changes. You can also report changes by calling 1-800-699-9074 or by emailing dpu.providerreporting@DELC.oregon.gov
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Billing and payments
As an ERDC provider, you will be paid by the Direct Pay Unit of the Department of Early Learning and Care(DELC). Families who pay a copay to cover part of the child care cost will pay their copay directly to you.
The amount you receive is based on:
- The child's age
- Your location in Oregon
- The type of child care
- The number of care hours needed
There is a limit to how much DELC will pay. If you charge more than the maximum rate DELC will pay,the family must cover the additional cost.
Contact the Direct Pay Unit
- Hours: Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
- Phone: 800-699-9074
- General email: customerservice.dpu@DELC.oregon.gov
- Submit billing and listing forms (PDF only) to: dpu.childcarebilling@DELC.oregon.gov
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Requirements for license exempt providers
License exempt child care providers need to meet training and safety requirements before they can provide child care and get paid through ERDC. License exempt means you are not required to be licensed to provide child care by the Child Care Licensing Division(CCLD).
License exempt providers must:
- Complete a background check
- Take training
- Pass a site visit
- You don't need to do this if you only provide care for children you are related to.
- Test drinking water for lead
- You don't need to do this if you only provide care for children you are related to.
- You don't need to do this if you provide care in the child's home and you live somewhere else.
Note: If you care for at least one child who is not a relative, you must meet all the requirements above without exception. By federal definition, a relative may be a:
- Grandparent
- Great-grandparent
- Aunt or uncle
- Sibling not living in the home
To be considered a relative you must be related by blood, marriage or legal adoption.
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Site visits
License exempt providers who care for non-related childrenmust pass an initial site visit before approval. You must also pass a site visit yearly after that.
- The Child Care Licensing Division (CCLD) will contact you to schedule yearly site visits or may do the site visit at your next re-evaluation.
- Visits will happen at the place where you provide child care. This includes the home of the child if that is where you are providing care.
- CCLD staff check to make sure the site meets all health and safety requirements. They can also provide resources if needed.
- Read through the checklist and make sure you meet the requirements before the visit.
Drinking water lead testing
Lead exposure is harmful to child development. Testing for lead protects children from exposure to lead in water.
Your home or the facility where you provide care must be tested for lead exposure in water unless you are related to all the children in your care. Lead testing is required for all plumbing fixtures used for drinking, cooking, or preparing food or infant formula.
- You can order lead testing kits from an ORELAP approved lab.
- Once you get the results back, attach them to your Child Care Provider Listing form and submit them together. If you don't submit results, the DELC Direct Pay Unit will send you instructions.
- If the results show high levels of lead, the Child Care Licensing Division(CCLD) will contact you with more instructions.
- You need to pass the lead testing or submit a corrective action plan to remain approved as an DELC child care provider.
Lead testing guidance
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Reimbursem*nt for lead testing
The Department of Early Learning and Care can reimburse you for lead testing. To be reimbursed, you must:
- Complete and submit the Lead Testing Reimbursem*nt Form:
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- Complete a W-9:
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- Send completed forms to:
- TRI Central Coordination of CCR&R
Western Oregon University
345 Monmouth Ave N
Monmouth, OR 97361
- TRI Central Coordination of CCR&R
Questions about lead testing
- Questions about testing process: Call the Lead Hotline at 503-947-5908 or visit the Lead Poisoning Prevention webpage.
- Questions about reimbursem*nt: Call 800-342-6712
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