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State and Territory Approaches to Improving the Supply and Quality of Child Care Programs and Services for Infants and Toddlers
The Child Care State Capacity Building Center’s Infant/Toddler Specialist Network developed this resource to provide a snapshot of selected ways states’ and territories’…
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Topic/Subtopic:
- Promoting Children's Development
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The resources and tools found in this section are designed to support CCDF state and territory leaders and professionals working to strengthen the quality of child care services infants, toddlers, and their families receive.
If you have questions about the resources available, or if you would like…
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Topic/Subtopic:
- Promoting Children's Development
Group: Not Applicable
The 2019 Infant/Toddler and School-Age Child Care (ITSACC) Institute was a virtual even ttitled Bridging the Child Care Continuum through Policy and Practice. It was designed to build the capacity of professionals working to manage and support child care systems, particularly those focused on…
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Topic/Subtopic:
- Infants and Toddlers
- School-age
- Promoting Children's Development
Group: Child Care State Capacity Building Center
What is the CCDF?
The Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) is a federal and state partnership program supported by the Administration for Children and Families’ Office of Child Care. The Child Care and Development Block Grant Act (CCDBG) authorizes the CCDF, and the program has over $5 billion…
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Topic/Subtopic:
- CCDF Governance and Leadership
Group: Child Care State Capacity Building Center
Eligible child care providers receive reimbursement for serving low-income families and can draw on networks of training and technical assistance resources to help them provide high-quality child care services. Many states, territories, and tribes are committed to building a well-trained, fairly…
Resource Type: General Information
Topic/Subtopic:
- Family Engagement and Consumer Education
- Informing Child Care Consumers
- Provider Information
- Professional Development
- Compensation, Benefits, and Access to Professional Development (PD)
- Meeting the Needs of Diverse Providers
- Recruiting and Retaining Providers
- Protecting Children's Health and Safety
- Health and Safety Requirements and Standards
- Provider/Staff Requirements and Qualifications
- Monitoring and Enforcement
- License-Exempt CCDF Providers
- Quality Improvement
- Financial Incentives for Quality Improvement
- Cost of Quality for Providers
- Outreach and Consumer Education
- Program Quality Standards
- Provider Supports for Quality Improvement
- System Planning and Implementation
- Provider and Quality Information
Group: Child Care State Capacity Building Center
This page features presentations and resources from the 2018 State and Territory Administrators Meeting (STAM).
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Topic/Subtopic:
- Leadership and Coordination
- CCDF Governance and Leadership
Group: Office Of Child Care
Within the early care and education system, licensing requirements apply to those caring for children from birth to school age. Licensing helps prevent various forms of harm to children, including risks from the following: injuries and the spread of disease; fire and other building safety hazards;…
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Topic/Subtopic:
- Informing Child Care Consumers
- Processes for Licensing Child Care
- Licensing Administration
- Consumer Information and Websites
Group: National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance
Early Head Start-Child Care (EHS-CC) Partnerships help communties expand high-quality early learning opportunities in the years before preschool. The partnerhips work to increase the number of Early Head Start (EHS) programs and child care providers that can meet the highest standards of quality…
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Topic/Subtopic:
- Early Head Start - Child Care Partnerships
- Family Child Care Partners
Group: Office Of Child Care
The Consumer Education Hot Topic Webinar Series was designed to raise awareness about important topics, provide relevant resources, and inspire continued conversation, topic exploration, and further action forward enhancing states and territories' consumer education websites.
The webinars were…
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Topic/Subtopic:
- Family Engagement and Consumer Education
- Informing Child Care Consumers
- Consumer Education Website
Group: Child Care State Capacity Building Center