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The Understanding the CARES Act brief is a supplement to the CCDF Information Memorandum (CCDF-ACF-IM-2020-01) released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on April 29, 2020.
National Center on Subsidy Innovation and Accountability
The National Center on Subsidy Innovation and Accountability (NCSIA) 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. NCSIA 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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Equal access and market rate surveys are important concepts for CCDF leaders. Market rate surveys can impact payment rates, which must be sufficient to ensure equal access.
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 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.
The Grantee Internal Controls Self-Assessment 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.
Comprehensive 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.
The Error Rate Review training module provides state administrative staff with background on the federal error rate review and covers the steps needed to complete the error rate review process..
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The National Center on Afterschool and Summer Enrichment (NCASE) is pleased to share a practice brief on Aligning Out-of-School Time Services for Children Experiencing Homelessness. This brief is the fifth in a periodic series published by NCASE to build awareness of promising practices in the...
This resource highlights key requirements of the CCDF criminal background check requirements for tribes.
Topics include:
- Applicability of rules
- Individuals subject to background checks
- Required national and state-based background checks
This program integrity webinar shared CCDF Lead Agency strategies related to fraud prevention, detection, and investigation. In addition to the NCSIA presentation, two states, Delaware and Georgia, shared their investigation strategies, including how the investigations are prioritized and the...
The CCDBG Act of 2014 requires states and territories to have in effect requirements, policies, and procedures to conduct criminal background checks for all child care staff members (including prospective staff members) of all child care programs that are 1) licensed, regulated, or registered...
Child care subsidies are a critical component of Early Head Start-Child Care Partnerships (EHS-CC Partnerships.) Programs must ensure that at least 25 percent of enrolled families use subsidies. Assisting families to access and maintain subsidies is the focus of this brief. It includes...
The webinar delivered information regarding the correlation between internal controls and data mining, sharing and analytics. In addition, high level information is provided regarding general internal control elements, data mining, sharing and analytics, confidentiality, and written agreements....
This brief is part of an ongoing effort with the Administration for Children and Families, Office of Child Care (OCC) to provide guidance to the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) Lead Agencies concerning the implementation of criminal background check requirements. It discusses the benefits...
This resource was presented as part of the policy development sessions at STAM 2018.
This resource was presented as part of the Staff Enrichment Sessions at STAM 2018.
This resource was presented as part of the implementation sessions at STAM 2018.
