Your Insights on CCDBG

09/02/2015

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For the past year Exchange and the Early Care and Education Consortium have been working together to evaluate the implementation of the recently reauthorized Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG). In the September issue of Exchange we reported on an initial survey with a representative focus group of child care providers. In general, providers conveyed positive attitudes about the new CCDBG law. They indicated that they were looking forward to changes in the law to improve the operation of their programs to better serve the needs of the children and families they serve, particularly the new 12-month uninterrupted eligibility requirement. And they were looking forward to the increased training and technical assistance opportunities.

Focus group participants also raised a number of implementation concerns, such as...

preventing trade-offs between investments in access versus quality
meeting increased costs, particularly around new inspection and criminal background provisions
integrating these changes with existing system levers, including QRIS and parent engagement initiatives
ensuring all eligible providers can benefit from the new resources and strengthened provisions

Now we are reaching out to all of you to share your insights on the implementation of CCDBG. Please help us by completing our online CCDBG Implementation survey. Then watch for updates in future issues of Exchange and ExchangeEveryDay.

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