We do not have the means to serve as a referral agency for failed adepts.

Another goal was to develop a handbook of referral agencies in Brooklyn for probation and other court officials.

There are now more than 350 referral agencies across the country, many of which are recruiting new child-care workers.

The national network of child-care resource and referral agencies also provides free information about local camps.

Child Care Aware, at (800) 424-2246, provides information on referral agencies nationwide.

As bar association services have grown, for-profit referral agencies have also sprung up, usually in violation of state laws.

- If a school does not have on-site day care, investigate the nearest child care resource and referral agency.

In many communities there also are child care resource and referral agencies that can provide information about how to apply for child care assistance.

They operate to give advice and to act as a referral agency for the private profession.

The referral agency would then offer other listings.