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The User Guide for the Provider Cost of Quality Calculator (PCQC) provides information on using the PCQC – from the basics to the calculations.
This guide includes four general sections:
Getting Started: The steps you’ll need to take before you begin entering data into the PCQC.
Using the PCQC…
Resource Type: Tool
Topic/Subtopic:
- Quality Improvement
- Financial Incentives for Quality Improvement
- Cost of Quality for Providers
Group: National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance
Early Childhood Systems Building Resource Guide: Stakeholder Communications shares the importance of communication plans and the value of communicating and engaging with stakeholders. It discusses how to make the most of stakeholder meetings. This guide also shares resources.
Resource Type: Resource Guide
Topic/Subtopic:
- COVID-19
- American Rescue Plan Act (ARP Act)
- ARP Act Supplemental Funding
- Leadership and Coordination
- Recruit, Engage, and Coordinate With Stakeholders
Group: Child Care State Capacity Building Center
This working tool will help Lead Agencies customize a plan and timeline for data gathering to inform provider rate setting. The tool guides an agency’s plan for engaging partners, pre-data gathering activities, identifying resources including whether and how to use contractors, planning methods for…
Resource Type: Tool
Topic/Subtopic:
- Equal Access to Child Care
- Assessing Market Rates and Child Care Costs
- Alternative Methodologies
- Market Rate Surveys
Group: National Center on Subsidy Innovation and Accountability
This guide aims to help Child Care and Development Fund Administrators learn about how search engine optimization (SEO) helps increase the visibility of their consumer education website and ensure that their audience can find it easily when using an online search engine.
Resource Type: Resource Guide
Topic/Subtopic:
- Family Engagement and Consumer Education
- Informing Child Care Consumers
- Consumer Education Website
Group: Child Care State Capacity Building Center
This guide is designed to assist Tribes in ensuring that Tribal child care centers (also known as Tribally Operated Centers) and center-based providers have safe and healthy learning environments utilizing the flexibility that Tribes have in a way that is most effective for their community.…
Resource Type: Resource Guide
Topic/Subtopic:
- Protecting Children's Health and Safety
- Health and Safety Requirements and Standards
- Monitoring and Enforcement
Group: Not Applicable
This guide provides Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) Administrators with an overview of digital analytics so that they may begin to understand how to use them to inform their website development and improvement planning and implementation processes. This knowledge will help also help CCDF…
Resource Type: Resource Guide
Topic/Subtopic:
- Family Engagement and Consumer Education
- Informing Child Care Consumers
- Consumer Education Website
Group: Child Care State Capacity Building Center
This guide focuses on fiscal administration and accountability for Tribal CCDF programs, including basic financial management and grant management principles.
Resource Type: Resource Guide
Topic/Subtopic:
- Early Childhood Program Design and Management
- Management Practices
- Fiscal Management
- Program Integrity and Accountability
Group: Not Applicable
The Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) Fundamentals website has been reengineered and revised to reflect the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 2014 and its expanded purposes and impact on child care and on Lead Agencies’ administration of CCDF grants. The Child Care and Development…
Resource Type: Page
Topic/Subtopic:
- Leadership and Coordination
- CCDF Governance and Leadership
Group: Not Applicable
Child care provides an opportunity to have an impact on the lives of children and their families. Starting and operating a child care business is both a personal and a business decision. Child care providers must take the right steps to ensure that their businesses are profitable and sustainable.…
Resource Type: Resource Guide
Topic/Subtopic:
- COVID-19
- American Rescue Plan Act (ARP Act)
- ARP Act Supplemental Funding
- New Programs
- Program Startup
- Family Engagement and Consumer Education
- Informing Child Care Consumers
- Provider Information
Group: Child Care State Capacity Building Center
The CCDF Plan is a key public document that describes how a Lead Agency will operate its program to meet CCDF regulatory requirements, and it is essential to OCC's oversight of CCDF implementation. Each section of the CCDF Plan is addressed in the guide, including highlights of what is important to…
Resource Type: Page
Topic/Subtopic:
- Early Childhood Program Design and Management
- Equal Access to Child Care
- Family Engagement and Consumer Education
- Leadership and Coordination
- Professional Development
- Program Integrity and Accountability
- Promoting Children's Development
- Protecting Children's Health and Safety
- Quality Improvement
- Stable Financial Assistance to Families
Group: Child Care State Capacity Building Center