This session explores CCDF quality spending and consumer education requirements, implementation considerations, and strategies.
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This section is for Tribal Lead Agencies with medium or large allocation...
States may allocate CCDF funds, including quality funds, to child care resource and referral (CCR&R) agencies, networks, and systems. CCR&R agencies have supported states in many ways. The following are examples of how CCR&R agencies may provide important connections to local...
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...
Welcome to the Fundamentals of CCDF Administration Resource Website. This website has been revised to reflect the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act (CCDBG)of 2014 and the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) final rule—including its expanded purposes and impact on...
The CCDF Plan developed by Tribal Lead Agencies is the primary mechanism that the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) uses to determine Tribal Lead Agency compliance with the requirements of the law and final rule. This CCDF Plan Preprint consists of two parts aligned with the...
The history of CCDBG and rules to administer the program date back to 1990. Funding was first authorized under the CCDBG Act of 1990, which was enacted under the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990. The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA)...
Coordination has taken on new significance under the CCDBG Act. The law identifies specific entities that Lead Agencies must coordinate with over the 3-year plan period to do the following:
- Expand accessibility and continuity of care
- Help children enrolled in early...
Below are key provisions of CCDF...
Through the CCDBG Act, American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) grantees will receive no less than 2 percent of discretionary CCDF funding and up to 2 percent of mandatory CCDF funding. More than 500 federally recognized Indian tribes, Alaska Native villages, and a Native Hawaiian organization...