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The National Center on Subsidy Innovation and Accountability (NCSIA) created the following resources to assist those interested in program integrity and fiscal accountability.
The New Mexico Early Childhood Education and Care Department worked in partnership with external fiscal consultants to develop a robust alternative methodology, incorporating a cost study and development of a cost estimation model. They increased base subsidy rates across settings and age...
Several federal grant programs play a significant role in supporting the costs of child care for low-income families, including care for school-age children before and after school and during the summer. The Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) program is the largest federal funding source for...
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...
The Office of Child Care’s (OCC) 2018 American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) Regional Conferences brought together AI/AN CCDF grantees, OCC staff, and technical assistance providers. The conferences focused on sharing strategies, ideas, and promising practices to support planning regarding...
Guiding Principles for Planning
High-quality early childhood programs demand close, careful attention to planning. Five key elements to incorporate into state-level program planning are as follows:
- Be inclusive, transparent...
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...
The Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement was entered in November 1998, originally between the four largest United States tobacco companies and the attorneys general of 46 states. Several states, such as Kentucky and Kansas, use a portion of the state’s share of the tobacco settlement to fund...