Our Mission
Our mission is to promote quality childhood care and education for Oregon's children and families by providing a professional development system for practitioners.
We commit to social justice and cultural responsiveness by recognizing the diverse input of Oregon’s early learning professionals to guide our policies and practices.
Our Partners
The Oregon Professional Development System is an integrated and comprehensive statewide framework that weaves the childhood care and education profession together. The Oregon Professional Development System involves many agencies and programs that provide supports for professionals.
The profession of Childhood Care and Education includes all types of care and education for young children, before/after school, and summer care programs for school age children. Professionals in childhood care and education make a difference every day in their work with children and youth. High quality programs and services for children, youth and families result in the positive growth and development of children and youth, and a stronger social, educational and economic future.
Our primary professional development partners:
Land Acknowledgement
OCCD is located within Portland State University in the heart of downtown Portland, Oregon in Multnomah County. We honor the Indigenous people whose traditional and ancestral homelands we stand on, the Multnomah, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Tumwater, Watlala bands of the Chinook, the Tualatin Kalapuya and many other indigenous nations of the Columbia River. It is important to acknowledge the ancestors of this place and to recognize that we are here because of the sacrifices forced upon them. In remembering these communities, we honor their legacy, their lives, and their descendants.