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Explore Promoting Informed Child Care Choices: A Training Guide for Child Care Subsidy Staff

Watch this webinar to learn more about Promoting Informed Child Care Choices: A Training Guide for Child Care Subsidy Staff. This training guide offers information that Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) lead agency personnel, subsidy staff...
Resource Type: Training Module
Topic/Subtopic Family Engagement and Consumer Education, Family Engagement and School Readiness, PFCE Framework/Family Engagement Outcomes, Relationship-Based Practice, Informing Child Care Consumers, Supports and Services for Families, Professional Development, Core Knowledge and Competencies (CKC), Training and Professional Development Requirements, Family Engagement Guides
Promoting Informed Child Care Choices: A Training Guide for Child Care Subsidy Staff

CCDF Lead Agencies, subsidy staff, their supervisors, and others responsible for training subsidy staff can use Promoting Informed Child Care Choices: A Training Guide for Child Care Subsidy Staff as a tool for professional development.

This training guide consists of ten modules, which...
Resource Type: Training Module
Topic/Subtopic Family Engagement and Consumer Education, Family Engagement and School Readiness, PFCE Framework/Family Engagement Outcomes, Relationship-Based Practice, Informing Child Care Consumers, Supports and Services for Families, Professional Development, Core Knowledge and Competencies (CKC), Training and Professional Development Requirements, Family Engagement Guides
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
Increasing Access for Vulnerable Children and Families

CCDF regulations requires Lead Agencies to target their efforts and funds toward specific populations of families and children who are vulnerable, at risk, and underserved. The CCDBG Act identifies many of those populations and provides states flexibility in determining approaches they might use...
Resource Type: Page
Topic/Subtopic Stable Financial Assistance to Families, Continuity of Care, Policy and Practice, Prioritizing Vulnerable Children and Families
Strategies to Increase Base Payment Rates

This guide outlines strategies for increasing subsidy payment rates for direct child care services.
Resource Type: Brief
Topic/Subtopic COVID-19, ARP Act Supplemental Funding, Equal Access to Child Care, Setting Payment Rates, Determining Equal Access
Quick Guide to CCDF Disaster Plan Continuity

This resource can help CCDF staff understand how to describe continuity of child care services and subsidy as well as CCDF provider operations continuity in their disaster plans.

Return to the CCDF Disaster Plan Preparedness Page
Resource Type: Tip sheet
Topic/Subtopic Protecting Children's Health and Safety, Emergency Preparedness
Using the Website

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...
Resource Type: Page
Topic/Subtopic Leadership and Coordination, CCDF Governance and Leadership
A Guide to Support States and Territories’ Use of Child Care Licensing Data

States and Territories collect different types of data, including, for example, data captured by child care licensing and subsidy agencies and by quality rating and improvement systems. This guide focuses on one of these: administrative data related to child care licensing. Administrative...
Resource Type: Tool
Topic/Subtopic Protecting Children's Health and Safety, Licensing Administration, Use of Technology and Data Systems
Strategies to Improve Payment Practices: An Implementation Guide to ARP Act CCDF Discretionary Supplemental Funds

This guide outlines strategies for increasing reliable subsidy revenue for providers. Strategies include payment by enrollment, flexible attendance policies, and paying prospectively. Hurdles Lead Agencies may encounter in implementing these strategies are addressed and program integrity...
Resource Type: Information Product
Topic/Subtopic Equal Access to Child Care, Payment Practices, Absence Policies
Rate Setting Data Plan for Next Three-Year CCDF Plan Cycle

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...
Resource Type: Tool
Topic/Subtopic Equal Access to Child Care, Assessing Market Rates and Child Care Costs, Alternative Methodologies, Market Rate Surveys