There are two categories of providers that may participate in the Choctaw Nation Child Care Assistance Program.  They are:

1.  Licensed Providers

 Licensed providers have been issued a license to operate a day care center or home by the Oklahoma Department of Human Services such as:

1. Center of 13 children or more
2. Home of 7 or less children
3. Large family home or group home of 8-12 children
4. If the family has five (5) or more children on the program, in-home care.

2.  Non-licensed or relative providers

Child Care Assistance encourages all non licensed providers to consider
licensure through Oklahoma Department of Health & Human Services.  However, federal law allows providers who
are 18 years or older to provide child care services to children who are related to them by marriage, blood relationship,
or court decree, the grandchild, great-grandchild, niece, great-niece, nephew, great-nephew, or sibling of such provider,
and if provider complies with applicable requirements.  Such provider must live in a separate residence.  Relative
providers will be given a special handbook describing the requirements for a non-licensed facility.