National Center on Subsidy Innovation and Accountability

The National Center on Subsidy Innovation and Accountability (SIAC) provides technical assistance to Child Care and Development Fund programs in developing child care subsidy systems that are child-focused, family-friendly, and fair to providers. SIAC works with grantees to help them reach goals related to subsidy eligibility, integrating quality and subsidy, strengthening program integrity, payment rules, rate setting, and other policies and practices that support providing high-quality care to more children from low-income families.

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Highlighted Tools and Resources:

The CCDF Fraud Toolkit is an evolving resource designed to assist CCDF Lead Agencies in increasing program integrity and accountability and decreasing fraud within their child care programs.

Collaboration Between CCDF and TANF to Meet the Needs of Low-Income Working Families outlines why collaboration with TANF is important and the beginning steps in collaboration. It also offers examples of how CCDF and TANF can collaborate, including various state initiatives and highlights fiscal considerations for both programs.

The Grantee Internal Controls Self-Assessment Instrument assists grantees in assessing how well their policies and procedures meet CCDF's regulatory requirements in the areas of program integrity and financial accountability.

The Market Rate Survey Series consists of briefs addressing topics to include: planning a market rate survey, data sources, designing and conducting the survey, analyzing the results, and reporting and using results.

The State Median Income and Federal Poverty Level Calculation Tool assists states and territories with calculating annual and monthly SMI estimates and FPL levels for determining income eligibility and family copayments for their child care subsidy programs.

Criminal background check resources are available that break down the requirements into easier to understand language.

Guidance on Estimating and Reporting the Costs of Child Care aims to support Lead Agencies and their partners as they create cost estimates, prepare detailed reports, and use cost estimates to inform their rate setting.

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CCDBG Background Check and Monitoring Requirements for CCDF Tribal Lead Agencies

This PowerPoint presentation provides information on developing and implementing Tribal alternative approaches for conducting background checks and monitoring and inspections of child care providers.

A video recording and transcript are available on...

Sample Inter-Agency Data Sharing Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)

A governmental inter-agency written agreement is often referred to as a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) or Memorandum of Agreement (MOA). In general, written agreements bind two or more agencies to terms outlined within the agreement. Written agreements may specify the mutual roles and...

CCDF Tribal Lead Agency Fiscal Risk Assessment

The Tribal Lead Agency Fiscal Risk Assessment was developed for Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) Tribal Lead Agency (TLA) administrators, fiscal and management officials, and other TLA leaders as a framework for reviewing how well policies and procedures meet the CCDF requirements in the...

Approved Methods for the FBI Fingerprint Component of Criminal Background Checks: Brief for CCDF Tribal Lead Agencies

The intent of this resource is to provide tribes with an overview of the statutory authorities and identify potential avenues to access FBI fingerprint check results.

Equal Access: Terms and Definitions

This resource provides a glossary for terms commonly used related to the Equal Access provisions of the ...

Garantizando Sistemas Efectivos de Administración Fiscal, Presupuesto y Controles Internos de CCDF

Este recurso se presentó en la reunión de la Región II del programa CCDF el 13 de junio del 2019. Los participantes exploraron los componentes de un sólido sistema de gestión fiscal, mejoraron sus conocimientos sobre las practicas efectivas de gestión fiscal, la preparación de presupuestos y los...

CCDF Succession Planning Contact List

The Succession Planning Contact List is a tool to help Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) Administrators map out who their key contacts are both within and external to the CCDF Lead Agency. It is designed so that current CCDF Administrators can have a quick guide on who their key contacts...

Region III State Administrators Meeting - Program Integrity and Accountability Session

This resource was presented at the Region III CCDF Administrators Meeting on May 1, 2019. The presentation provided an overview of program integrity and fiscal accountability within the CCDF program, discussed effective internal controls and strategies to identify fraud and program...

Ensuring Effective CCDF Financial Management Systems, Budgeting, and Internal Controls

This resource was presented at the Region II CCDF Meeting on June 13, 2019. Participants explored the components of a strong CCDF fiscal management system, enhanced their awareness of effective fiscal management practices, budgeting, and internal controls required to maintain program integrity...

NCSIA Program Integrity Resources

CCTAN - The Child Care Technical Assistance Network, a service of the Office of Child Care

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