View COVID-19 resources for CCDF Lead Agencies, providers, and families. Learn about provider eligibility for the COVID-19 vaccination.
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.
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 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).
The Provider Cost of Quality Calculator is a tool that calculates the cost of care by levels of quality based on site-level provider data.
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This article provides information on implementation of the Pyramid Model for Promoting Social and Emotional Competence in Infants and Young Children and implementation strategies. Successful implementation of the Pyramid Model requires the engagement of ...
This article provides information on meeting the social and emotional wellness needs of school-age children through different frameworks and strategies. Healthy relationships are essential...
This Quick State Guide summarizes strategies that can be used to integrate social and emotional wellness supports at the regional, state, territory, tribal, and local levels. This summarizes the full Resource Guide.
This article highlights the Relationship-Based Care for Infants and Toddlers: A Training for Trainers series. This series provides rationale and guidance for implementing relationship-based care in family child care homes and early care and education centers that...
This one-pager explains how the Provider Cost of Quality Calculator can help states, territories, and tribes understand the costs of COVID-19 mitigation practices in early care and education settings and can inform the design of financial support and...
This peer-learning breakout focused on states that have been successful with apprenticeship programs, higher education articulation, and online training opportunities.
This peer-learning breakout allowed participants to discuss issues pertaining to licensing.
This is a series of fact sheets about the state of quality rating and improvement systems (QRIS). Data are from the Quality Compendium, a catalog of the QRISs operating in the United States.
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This fact sheet updates the participation fact sheet from 2017 and summarizes information from the Quality Compendium on program participation in 2019 by program type and quality level. This document also summarizes the types of data that QRISs collect on child demographics.
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This fact sheet provides a descriptive analysis of data from the Quality Compendium about how technical assistance (TA) was carried out across QRISs operating in the United States in 2019. It includes information about the following:
- Types and focus areas of TA
- Number...
