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This checklist is designed to be utilized as a self-assessment tool by states and territories as they review their child care consumer education website for 1) alignment with CCDF consumer education website requirements; 2) recommendations within the preamble to the CCDF Final Rule; and 3) additional best practice considerations for user-friendly website design. The items within each section of the checklist reference the regulatory requirements within the CCDBG Act of 2014 and the CCDF Final Rule at 45 C.F.R. 98.33.

The tool can also be used to track the state or territory’s progress with its design and implementation of the child care consumer education website. Some of the consumer education information may be provided by offering a link to child care licensing, child care resource and referral (CCR&R) agencies, the child care subsidy website, and other state or territory government departments, offices, or agencies that offer the required child care consumer education information. The tool can also be helpful to document the URLs and links to other sites providing consumer education.

State, Territory, and Tribal child care administrators and others may use this resource to support consumer education and family engagement. Explore the strategies to promote consumer engagement in line with the vision presented in Consumer Engagement: Orientation for Early Childhood and School-Age Care and Education Professionals.

Professionals working at state, territory, tribal, and local levels may find these strategies useful for engaging parents as consumers in plans, processes, and programs that are part of an agency’s everyday responsibilities. These areas of responsibility include: consumer education, subsidy administration, QRIS, and other general efforts to improve quality and access to services.

This resource is part of the Foundations for Quality series.

Defines mixed delivery systems and family choice and how they are related and important Describes data elements that are important to consider and collect: Documenting and demonstrating change in MDS Information families need to make choices Demonstrates an example of providing families with data that improves their ability to make choices

This webinar  is an introduction to a range of strategies to promote and encourage family and caregiver participation in the mixed delivery system. The PDG B-5 TA Center facilitates a discussion with state panelists that showcases four different approaches /strategies to family engagement. Learn about the structures created, successes experienced, lessons learned, challenges faced, and reflections on future direction from each state panelist on how they are implementing their programs in a mixed delivery system.

During the opening session for the Meaningful Family Engagement strand , presenters discussed how including family voices and supporting family leadership in early childhood classrooms, programs, and systems can advance equity, improve outcomes, and eliminate educational disparities and opportunity gaps in early childhood education. 

This brief provides an overview of research-based practices and policies that state leaders can use to support meaningful family engagement in children’s early learning, which ultimately improves child and family outcomes. State leaders’ actions can influence family engagement at both the state and program levels.

This brief presents an overview of family homelessness and information about the policies, agencies, and programs that support families of young children experiencing homelessness. The brief focuses on how PDG B-5 Grantees can form strategic partnerships at the state and program levels to better serve these vulnerable families.

There have been many resources developed to provide information and approaches on how to support families and children experiencing homelessness. This tip sheet considers those resources and highlights strategies to increase collaboration among state-wide early childhood programs and services to support families experiencing homelessness.

This tool is designed to support State child care leaders and I/T stakeholders as they assess, prioritize, plan, implement, and evaluate State policies to strengthen the quality of child care services that infants, toddlers, and their families receive. The tool also aims to assist I/T child care leaders as they create strategies, policies, protocols, and systems that:

Identify relationship-based care as essential to quality infant/toddler child care; Engage, inform, and connect with families of infants and toddlers; Strengthen the quality and conditions of the infant/toddler workforce to help meet the unique needs of infants and toddlers in child care settings; Increase the supply, health and safety, sustainability, and quality of infant/toddler child care settings; Coordinate and integrate cross-sector systems that serve infants, toddlers, and their families; and Support infants, toddlers, and their families through emergencies and disasters.

The accompanying resource, User Guide for the State and Territory Infant/Toddler Child Care System Policies and Practices Too l, is based on feedback from the policy tool’s developers and initial users, and offers a variety of tips and strategies for maximum success using the tool.

Additional emergency preparedness resources can be found on the CCDF Disaster Plan Preparedness Page . 

The following questionnaire and checklist are designed to help you think about the challenges of creating and maintaining a supply of high-quality care for infants and toddlers in your state or territory. Not all questions may be applicable to your plans for addressing this challenge. The questions and tables are an aid for starting conversations about this issue in your state or territory.