Child Care Rate Setting: Using Cost Data to Inform More Equitable Subsidy Payment Rates
States, territories, and tribes actively seek to ensure family access to child care and child care provider access to subsidized payment rates to support them in serving children and families. The Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF), a core part of the child care market, allows flexibility in its implementation by states, territories, and tribes. This flexibility supports access and quality and ensures that families whose child care is covered by subsidy funding have the same experience selecting and accessing it as families who are not eligible to receive child care assistance. This brief discusses the role policies related to subsidy-rate-setting can play in supporting equitable access for families and equity in funding amounts of reimbursement rates.
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Putting the Pieces Together for Families with Young Children
Archived Webinar May 3, 2024
Last year, the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) released a report, Putting the Pieces Together for Families with Young Children: Aligning State Health and Human Services, Nutrition, Child Care, and Paid Family and Medical Leave. This report highlights the challenges parents of young children face in accessing the benefits and services they need to thrive and the steps that some states are taking to make this process easier. In this webinar, CLASP staff interviews parents, advocates, and administrators from California, Washington, and Washington D.C., offering insight into what it takes to build an aligned system of supports for families in this critical period.
Highlights from the Quality Compendium State Trends Towards Recognition and Support
Archived Webinar April 30, 2024
Hear about the latest highlights from the Quality Compendium which is sponsored by the BUILD Initiative and managed by Child Trends. This webinar discusses overall trends in the new 2023 Quality Compendium data, including the shift from rating to recognition and states’ approaches to continuous quality improvement.
Nurture Connection: A National Impact Network for Early Relational Health
Archived Webinar April 30, 2024
In this webinar we learn more about Nurture Connection, a national impact network that partners with families and communities to promote Early Relational Health (ERH).