Consumer Education Website Continuous Improvement Series
The Consumer Education Website Continuous Improvement Series aims to help Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) Lead Agencies develop effective, family-friendly consumer education websites.
Displaying Monitoring and Inspection Reports
Resources that Lead Agencies can use to guide posting of inspection and monitoring reports to be accessible and understandable for families searching for care.
Displaying Monitoring and Inspection Reports on Your Consumer Education Website
This webinar presents best practices for posting online monitoring and inspection reports to help families make informed child care choices.
Posting Child Care Inspection and Monitoring Reports: Best Practice Brief
Best practices for posting child care inspection and monitoring reports in a way that helps families find and understand them and to strengthen transparency.
Spotlight on Emergency Preparedness, Response, and Recovery Content Suite
These tip sheets provide resource topics and answers to frequently asked questions CCDF Administrators may have when developing content and resources to post on their consumer education websites in response to emergencies and distasters.
Leveraging Child Care Consumer Education Websites During Emergencies and Disasters
This webinar discusses how to leverage child care consumer educaiton websites to communicate critical informatoin to families and providers during a crisis.
Responding to Disasters and Emergencies: Helpful Child Care Information to Share
This tip sheet provides resources for CCDF administrators to consider when responding to an emergency or disaster on their consumer education website.
Recovering from Emergencies and Disasters: Helpful Child Care Information to Share
This tip sheet provides resoruces for CCDF administrators to consider when developing diasaster recovery content for their consumer education website.
Considerations for Emergency Child Care: Information and Tips for Families and Providers
This resource provides families and providers with tips for transitioning to emergency child care during a public health emergency.
This tip sheet discusses leveraging child care consumer education websites to share informatoin with families and providers during emergencies and disasters.
Leveraging Your Child Care Consumer Websites During Emergencies and Disasters: An Assessment Tool
The purpose of this resource is to help CCDF Lead Agencies with their consumer education websites.
Child Care Search Suite
These best practices briefs, checklist, tip sheets, and PowerPoint slide deck describe how CCDF Adminiistrators can enhance the child care search process on their consumer education website.
Best Practice Brief: Online Child Care Search Tools
This brief, one in a series, helps CCDF Lead Agencies consider program-level information and search tool features to enhance the child care search process.
Child Care Search Tool Assessment Checklist
This checklist, part of a series, can help you identify opportunities to integrate best practices into your curent child care search tool.
Tip Sheet: How to Implement Search Tool Enhancements
This tip sheet, part of a series, aims to help you think about how to implement enhancements to your child care search tool.
Best Practice Brief: Data Collection Considerations to Support an Enhanced Child Care Search
This brief, one in a series, discusses ways to collect and share provider-level information and availability to support an enhanced child care search.
Tip Sheet: Data Governance Makes It Possible
This tip sheet, part of a series, explores how data collaboration with state partners can support and sustain child care search tool enhancements.
Child Care Search Tool: Key Components of Your Consumer Education Website
This webinar describes different approaches to developing an effective child care search tool and identifies steps for implementing a family-friendly tool.
Digital Communications Resources
The resources explain how to develop communication plans, integrate social media in communication efforts, and brand your consumer education website, increasing the visibility and creditability of your consumer edcuation website across intended audiences.
Child Care Consumer Education Website Communication Strategies
The webinar explores how to develop communication plans, integrate social media in communication efforts, and use branding to help promote consumer education websites.
A guide for developing a comprehensive digital communications plan to increase visibility, awareness, and credibility for your consumer education website.
Child Care Consumer Education Website Type Decision Tool
This tool is designed to help you choose the type of website that will best support your jurisdiction's child care consumer education website content and features.
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