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These resources can help guide CCDF Lead Agencies that use alternative methodologies to establish payment rates.
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Topic/Subtopic: Equal Access to Child Care, Assessing Market Rates and Child Care Costs, Alternative Methodologies, Market Rate Surveys, Setting Payment Rates
Group: Child Care State Capacity Building Center, Office Of Child Care
The Let's Talk About Alternative Methodologies series of national webinars explores the use of cost-based alternative methologies and improving the use of cost data for Lead Agencies.
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Topic/Subtopic: Equal Access to Child Care, Assessing Market Rates and Child Care Costs, Alternative Methodologies
Group: National Center on Subsidy Innovation and Accountability
These slides accompanied a national webinar about the use of alternative methodologies and narrow cost analyses to inform Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) subsidy payment rates within the context of equal access. They include information on approaches to estimating the cost of care and…
Resource Type: Webinar
Topic/Subtopic: Equal Access to Child Care, Assessing Market Rates and Child Care Costs, Payment Practices, Setting Payment Rates, Supply Building Strategies, Stable Financial Assistance to Families
Group: National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance, National Center on Subsidy Innovation and Accountability
https://pcqc.acf.hhs.gov/The law allows Lead Agencies the option to conduct a statistically valid and reliable ACF pre-approved alternative methodology developed by the state (such as a cost estimation model) instead of or in addition to the market rate survey described in the previous section.…
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Topic/Subtopic: Equal Access to Child Care, Assessing Market Rates and Child Care Costs, Alternative Methodologies, Market Rate Surveys, Setting Payment Rates
Group: Not Applicable
This document outlines the steps a Lead Agency must complete in conducting a market rate survey or approved alternative methodology and the narrow cost analysis. A checklist is provided to guide the process from stakeholder engagement through the posting of the detailed written report.
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 is the third webinar in the Let's Talk about Alternative Methodologies series. The presentation included a description of California’s child care landscape, and a description of their questions for data, plan to collect data, constituents' engagement, and cost data modeling. This is the…
Resource Type: Webinar
Topic/Subtopic: Equal Access to Child Care, Assessing Market Rates and Child Care Costs, Alternative Methodologies
Group: National Center on Subsidy Innovation and Accountability
This is the second webinar in the Let's Talk about Alternative Methodologies series. It focused on how to strengthen Lead Agencies' use of cost data in setting rates.View a recording of the webinar on YouTube.
Resource Type: Webinar
Topic/Subtopic: Equal Access to Child Care, Assessing Market Rates and Child Care Costs, Alternative Methodologies, Setting Payment Rates, Determining Equal Access
Group: National Center on Subsidy Innovation and Accountability