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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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Grantee Internal Controls Self-Assessment Instrument

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.

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Market Rate Survey Series

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.

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State Median Income and Federal Poverty Level Calculation Tool

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.

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Criminal background check resources

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

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Guidance on Estimating and Reporting the Costs of Child Care

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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Financing and Budgeting for Early Care and Education Facilities

Financing and Budgeting for Early Care and Education Facilities provides information about how to budget for and secure funds to purchase and maintain quality facilities. State leaders will find this guidebook a helpful resource to pass along to child care programs in their States. This guide supports leaders in being innovative in acquiring unique sources of funds to make improvements to existing facilities or to build new ones.

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Promoting Partnerships in Tribal Programs

Promoting Partnerships in Tribal Programs highlights areas in which CCDF and Head Start and Early Head Start policies closely align and can support partnerships in tribal communities. It reflects changes that are required under the Child Care Development Block Grant (CCDBG) Act of 2014 and new regulations specific to Tribal Lead Agencies receiving medium and large CCDF allocations (those receiving $250,000 or more) and the requirements outlined in the Head Start Program Performance Standards.

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Child Care Subsidy Criminal Background Check Contact List

This resource was created to ease the burden of finding criminal background check contact information for other states. The National Center on Child Care Subsidy Innovation and Accountability will update and re-post this list on a quarterly basis (last updated September 2018...

Serving Children Experiencing Homelessness with Child Care and Development Fund Subsidies / Sirviendo A Los Niños Que Están Experimentando La Falta De Hogar Con El Programa De Cuidado Infantil Y Subvenciones Del Fondo De Desarrollo

Young children experiencing homelessness are among the most vulnerable of those needing child care. This brief discusses requirements in the CCDBG Act and CCDF final rule regarding homelessness, and explores policy and practice options for Lead Agencies.

Fraud Risk Assessment Tool Instructions

This document includes an overview and instructions for using the Fraud Risk Assessment Tool, provided by the National Center on Subsidy Innovation and Accountability (NCSIA). The Fraud Risk Assessment Tool is designed for Lead Agencies. Lead Agencies can assess their risk level by...

Addressing Equal Access through Alternative Methodologies and Cost Analyses

These slides accompanied a national webinar about the use of alternative methodologies and narrow cost analyses to inform Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) subsidy payment rates within the context of equal access. They include information on approaches to estimating the cost of care...

Family Co-Payments and Sliding Fee Scales

Affordable co-payments are an important component of equal access. The cost of child care can be a significant barrier for low-income families to access child care.

To help address this issue, the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act as amended made reforms to state, territory and...

Grantee Internal Controls Self-Assessment Instrument

The Grantee Internal Controls Self-Assessment Instrument (Instrument) is designed to assist grantees in assessing how well their policies and procedures meet the Child Care and Development Fund's (CCDF) regulatory requirements in the areas of program integrity and financial accountability....

State Median Income and Federal Poverty Level Calculation Tool

Updated: February 2019 (to include 2019 FPL figures).

This document contains instructions for the State Median Income (SMI) and Federal Poverty Level (FPL) Calculation Tool. This tool is designed to assist states and territories with calculating the annual and monthly...

Market Rate Survey Series

The National Center on Subsidy Innovation and Accountability (NCSIA) is developing a series of briefs to address topics related to market rate surveys. Some of the topics discussed in this series will include: planning a market rate survey, data sources, designing and conducting the survey,...

Layering Early Head Start Services and Funds with Child Care - The Cost Estimation Tool for EHS-CC Partnership Services

The Cost Estimation Tool for Early Head Start-Child Care (EHS-CC) Partnership Services is designed to help EHS-CC Partnership grantees and their child care partners plan for the cost of delivering comprehensive Early Head Start (EHS)...

Guidance on Estimating and Reporting the Costs of Child Care

This guidance 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. Specifically, this guidance outlines (1) factors that influence the cost of care, (2) sources of information that can...

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