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Addressing the Decreasing Number of Family Child Care Providers in the United States examines the reasons family child care homes close and offers information that your state, territory, or tribe can use to solve this problem.
National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance
The National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance (ECQA Center) supports state and community leaders and their partners in the planning and implementation of rigorous approaches to quality in all early care and education settings for children from birth to school age. The Center's expert staff use collaborative approaches to do the following:
- Advance strong health and safety standards and licensing regulations that align with the Child Care and Development Fund and Head Start Performance Standards.
- Support the development and enhancement of state quality initiatives, including quality rating and improvement systems.
- Enhance quality assurance systems through the use of technology, data analysis, and research that promote continuous quality improvement, efficiency, and innovation.
Contact Us
Send your questions and requests to:
- QualityAssuranceCenter@ecetta.info
- 877-296-2250 (toll free)
Highlighted Tools and Resources:
The National Database of Child Care Licensing Regulations is a tool for finding and searching state child care licensing regulations and licensing agency contact information. It also includes links to other state and national early childhood program standards.
The Program Standards Crosswalk is a tool designed to help States that are developing and aligning program standards for licensing, quality rating and improvement systems (QRIS), and/or prekindergarten programs, to search and compare the content of several sets of national standards.
The QRIS Resource Guide provides guidance for States as they explore key issues and consider decision points during the planning and implementation of a quality rating and improvement system (QRIS).
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The 2011 Child Care Licensing Study looked at licensing requirements for child care centers, family child care homes, and group child care homes and licensing agency policies in all 50 states, and the District of Columbia. These research briefs describe changes in licensing requirements and...
This document provides the websites for states’ QRIS standards for 44 states (including the District of Columbia). The three local areas that are implementing a QRIS model are also included. QRIS quality standards assign ratings to programs that take part in QRIS. This provides parents and the...
The National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance presents a new training-of-trainers curriculum series, Strengthening Business Practices for Child Care...
This document provides current website links to early learning and development guidelines (ELDGs) from the 50 states and the District of Columbia. All states have developed ELDGs for preschool children (3 to 5 years old). Most states...
This fact sheet describes the numbers and types of organizations responsible for the administration and management of a QRIS as well as their responsibilities and types of agreements
All of the fact sheets in this series are available...
This second webinar in the Strengthening Family Child Care series explored possible reasons behind the decrease in family child care (FCC) providers, and strategies that...
This webinar explores strategies for understanding your family child care (FCC) population and reaching out to and engaging FCC providers; and, outlines supports and services that can help improve the access to and sustainability of...
This fact sheet describes the QRIS family-engagement indicators and stakeholder-engagement campaigns implemented in 2017.
All of the fact sheets in this series are available...
This fact sheet summarizes QRIS program participation in 2017 by program type and quality level; this document also summarizes the types of data QRISs collect on child demographics.
All of the fact sheets in this series are available...
A library of resources from the 2018 Shared Services to Build and Sustain Quality meetings is available. The National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance (ECQA...
