The Santa Barbara County Emergency Child Care Initiative compiles and updates COVID-19 health and safety guidelines, directives, and best practices as soon as they are released from the State of California, the County of Santa Barbara, Community Care Licensing, and CDC into one, easy to use document below.

Go to Santa Barbara County’s Public Health Department’s School and Child Care webpage for specifics regarding the following:

• Santa Barbara Protocols for Symptoms, Potential Exposure and/or Close Contact with an Individual Testing Positive for COVID-19 in Childcare or Other Youth Setting Outside a Classroom (updated 10/15/21)

• Quarantine Decision Tree for Unvaccinated Student School Indoor Exposure (updated 10/27/21)

Navigate the COVID-19 Guidelines

Stay up to date on the ever-changing guidelines by using the online-only version of the Santa Barbara Child Care Guide for COVID-19 or by regularly checking the following sites:

• California's Guidance for Child Care Programs and Providers

• Guidance for Child Care Programs that Remain Open (CDC)

• Provider Information Notices (PINs) Child Care Licensing Program (CCLP) (Community Care Licensing)

• Santa Barbara County Public Health Department COVID-19 Public Information Portal

• Santa Barbara County Public Health Department – School and Child Care Information