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  • This report provides information on how tax revenue can increase the accessibility of quality early care and education programs. The report provides insight on how to produce funds for early child care programs, such as through particular tax policies.
  • This infographic explains the role of Medicaid in helping low-income families. It describes how this program can help prevent adverse childhood experiences in young children. For example, Medicaid provides coverage for developmental screenings and preventive care.
  • This brief provides information on Medicaid-driven strategies to support young children and their families. It describes factors that contribute to successful cross-sector partnerships as well as specific examples from three sites.
  • This document offers selected resources on financing strategies for early care and education.
  • This guide provides an overview of key concepts linking state financing options and systems building. The focus is on defining key state-based financing strategies, providing an overview of practical financial management practices, and reviewing financing forecasting tools.
  • This summary includes facts about early childhood funding streams and the government agencies to which they correspond.
  • This summary shares information about the Family First Prevention Services Act, which was signed into law in 2018. The law helps children safely stay with their families and avoid having to enter foster care when possible. It also helps ensure children are placed in family-like environments suited to meet their specific needs when foster care is needed.
  • This resource helps stakeholders understand and determine next steps for federal funding sources. The worksheet helps users determine top funding sources for further exploration, questions to consider, who to contact, and suggested next steps.
  • This toolkit offers information for communities about existing funding sources and how best to use them, including available dollars and ways to meet match requirements.
  • This guide describes how San Francisco built stable funding so that its service delivery system is of greater quality and is more accessible. Reading about the city’s work can help readers learn how they can develop steady, local funding streams for children, youth, and family service delivery programs in their communities.
  • This guide provides strategies and examples of how to finance comprehensive early care and education services. Strategies focus on policy changes that lead to the innovative use of funds and state and local partnerships.
  • This report for policy makers summarizes suggestions from the Transforming the Financing of Early Care and Education report.
  • This white paper offers solutions for expanding access to early childhood education while balancing the budget. The resource summarizes several ways to fund early learning programs, such as increasing private investments, levying excise taxes, and controlling government spending.