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Designing Websites That Are Accessible for All Families

This guide offers best practices, strategies, and examples for state and territory staff to consider as they work to ensure their consumer education websites are accessible to people with disabilities.

Resource Type: Resource Guide
Topic/Subtopic Informing Child Care Consumers, Consumer Education Website
American Indian and Alaska Native Child Care and Development Fund Fiscal Guide

This fiscal guide addresses the American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) program. It provides general information on fiscal administration and accountability issues. This guide also covers basic financial management and grants management principles. It is...
Resource Type: Resource Guide
Topic/Subtopic Payment Practices, Sliding Fee Scale Structure, Setting Payment Rates, Program Integrity and Accountability, CCDF Program Integrity, Stable Financial Assistance to Families, Prioritizing Vulnerable Children and Families, Eligibility Policies
Consumer Education Website Continuous Quality Improvement Series: Child Care Search Suite

The Consumer Education Website Continuous Improvement Series aims to help Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) Lead Agencies develop effective, family-friendly consumer education...
Resource Type: Resource Guide
Topic/Subtopic Family Engagement and Consumer Education, Informing Child Care Consumers, Consumer Education Website
American Indian and Alaska Native Child Care and Development Fund: Guide to Subsidy Administration for Medium- and Large-Allocation Grantees

This guide provides an overview of Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) subsidy administration. It focuses on CCDF final rule requirements for providing stable financial assistance to eligible CCDF families and ensuring equal access to quality child care. The guide explores key aspects of CCDF...
Resource Type: Resource Guide
Topic/Subtopic Assessing Market Rates and Child Care Costs, Payment Practices, Setting Payment Rates, Prioritizing Vulnerable Children and Families, Eligibility Policies, Graduated Phase-Out
OHS/OCC National Centers’ COVID-19 Resources for Child Care Programs

This resource compilation includes COVID-19 resources for Child Care Resource and Referral (CCR&R) agencies and child care providers who care for children of essential workers and children with disabilities or special needs. It includes resources developed by the Office of Head Start, the...
Resource Type: Resource Guide
Topic/Subtopic COVID-19, Other
State and Territory Approaches to Improving the Supply and Quality of Child Care Programs and Services for Infants and Toddlers (2016-2018 CCDF Plans)--ARCHIVED

This resource provides a snapshot of some of the ways that states’ and territories’ 2016–2018 ...
Resource Type: Resource Guide
Topic/Subtopic CCDF Governance and Leadership, Quality Improvement
State and Territory Approaches to Improving the Supply and Quality of Child Care Programs and Services for Infants and Toddlers (2019-2021 CCDF Plans)

The purpose of this resource is to provide a synopsis of states and territories' plans to improve the supply and quality of child care programs and services for infants and toddlers to meet CCDF 3 percent set-aside requirements.

Resource Type: Resource Guide
Topic/Subtopic CCDF Governance and Leadership, Quality Improvement
Healthy States: Health and Safety Training Toolkit

Explore this tool for ways to develop new or build upon existing health and safety trainings. Find up-to-date research- and science-informed resources and practices. It can be used by:

  • State and territory Child Care and Development Fund administrators
  • Training and...
Resource Type: Resource Guide
Topic/Subtopic Professional Development, Training and Professional Development Requirements, Health and Safety Topics, Protecting Children's Health and Safety, Supporting Health and Wellness, Physical Health, Protecting the Safety of Children, Safety and Injury Prevention, Emergency Preparedness, Preparedness
OPRE Report 2017-115 Market Rate Surveys and Alternative Methods of Data Collection and Analysis to Inform Subsidy Payment Rates

This resource provides research- and expert-informed guidance on collecting data on child care prices and costs for the purpose of setting child care subsidy payment rates. This report addresses market rate surveys and alternative methodologies, and criteria and considerations for assessing...
Resource Type: Resource Guide
Topic/Subtopic Equal Access to Child Care, Assessing Market Rates and Child Care Costs, Alternative Methodologies, Market Rate Surveys, Payment Practices, Setting Payment Rates, Determining Equal Access
NCASE Funding Resources

NCASE has developed a number of publications, webinars, and other resources on strategies for finding support for...
Resource Type: Resource Guide
Topic/Subtopic Equal Access to Child Care, Stable Financial Assistance to Families