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This video, which is also a part of the School-Age Consumer Education Toolkit, shows the importance of afterschool and summer care for families. Telling the story of school-age child care through data and details about the experiences of children served through federal subsidies presents a unique…
Resource Type: Video
Topic/Subtopic:
- Equal Access to Child Care
- Family Engagement and Consumer Education
- Supports and Services for Families
Group: National Center on Afterschool and Summer Enrichment
This set of guides addresses key issues and processes involved in framing an effective system of care infrastructure. Each toolkit discusses related activities, tasks, sustainability, and key partners. They provide examples from the field and perspectives from those who have developed promising…
Resource Type: Tool
Topic/Subtopic:
Group: Not Applicable
This webinar provided an overview of national resources to help states and territories provide relevant and timely consumer education information to families. Together with partners from the National Center on Parent, Family and Community Engagement and the National Center on Afterschool and Summer…
Resource Type: Webinar
Topic/Subtopic:
- Family Engagement and Consumer Education
- Informing Child Care Consumers
- Consumer Education Website
- Family Friendly Outreach
Group: Child Care State Capacity Building Center
Chawla, R. (n.d.). Strategies for acting politically worksheet: Leverage input from and collaboration with stakeholders. Retrieved from http://theoclgroup.com/resources/
This worksheet helps readers perform a stakeholder analysis to improve plans for engagement. Involving stakeholders provides an…
Resource Type: Page
Topic/Subtopic:
- Equal Access to Child Care
- Leadership and Coordination
- Professional Development
- Quality Improvement
Group: Not Applicable
Is your organization engaged in system building for out-of-school time? NCASE designed the NCASE Resource Library: Best of the Best Resources for leaders in state, territory, or tribal Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) agencies who are seeking to build their knowledge of afterschool and summer…
Resource Type: Information Product
Topic/Subtopic:
- Professional Development
- Quality Improvement
Group: National Center on Afterschool and Summer Enrichment
Podcasts and Videos
Freakonomics Podcast
EPISODE 405: "Policymaking Is Not a Science (Yet)" (February 12, 2020).
This episode of Freakonomics delves into the reasons why so many promising solutions in many areas of research fail to scale up into great policy. It also shares how implementation…
Resource Type: Page
Topic/Subtopic:
- Early Childhood Program Design and Management
- PDG Program Design
- Equal Access to Child Care
- Family Engagement and Consumer Education
- PDG Program Design
- Program Integrity and Accountability
Group: Not Applicable
Layering or blending and braiding multiple funding streams is a process for using multiple funding streams to support a common activity, initiative, or project.
Blending refers to wrapping funds from two or more funding sources together to fund a specific part of a program or initiative. In…
Resource Type: Page
Topic/Subtopic:
- Early Childhood Program Design and Management
- PDG Program Design
- Equal Access to Child Care
- Family Engagement and Consumer Education
- PDG Program Design
- Program Integrity and Accountability
Group: Not Applicable
Blogs
Children’s Funding Project Blog (Office of Child Care, n.d.).
This blog provides timely information on innovative strategies to fund children’s initiatives in states and localities. It also shares political and funding news related to children and in-depth explanations of federal, state,…
Resource Type: Page
Topic/Subtopic:
- Early Childhood Program Design and Management
- Equal Access to Child Care
- Family Engagement and Consumer Education
- PDG Program Design
- Program Integrity and Accountability
- Promoting Children's Development
- Protecting Children's Health and Safety
- Quality Improvement
- Stable Financial Assistance to Families
Group: Not Applicable
Sustainability and Systems Building
For the Long Haul: Maintaining Systems of Care Beyond the Federal Investment (Chris Koyanagi and Darienne Feres-Merchant, Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, 2000).
This paper provides an in-depth description of sustainability strategies used by Comprehensive…
Resource Type: Page
Topic/Subtopic:
- Leadership and Coordination
Group: Not Applicable
Throughout the PDCA cycle, data—both quantitative and qualitative—are used to identify where changes might be needed to drive decisionmaking and for feedback loops and communication across all levels. In other words, data are used to monitor the program. Starting with design and planning, and…
Resource Type: Page
Topic/Subtopic:
- Early Childhood Program Design and Management
- Equal Access to Child Care
- Program Integrity and Accountability
- Promoting Children's Development
- Protecting Children's Health and Safety
Group: Not Applicable