Supporting Access to High-Quality Family Child Care: A Policy Assessment and Planning Tool for States, Territories, and Tribes

This tool provides an assessment framework for policies and practices at the local, state, and regional levels. It ensures that they support access to high- quality family child care (FCC) options.

This tool can assist states, territories, and tribes in:

• Exploring if they can support FCC quality and supple strategies.
• Examining policies to promote high-quality FCC.
• Reviewing existing efforts to support FC.
• Assessing current outreach strategies ability to support FCC providers.
• Identifying priorities, goals, and next steps.