The Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) is a block grant of more than $9 billion that provides funding to states, territories, and tribes to provide access to child care and early education services for low-income families with children under the age of 13.
ACF supports the social and economic well-being of families, children, individuals, and communities through the delivery of human services programs. This includes child care and early education programs such as those funded with CCDF that aim to promote economic security, health and safety, and positive developmental trajectories for vulnerable young children and their families. CCDF is the primary federal funding source for child care subsidies and aims to help eligible low-income working families access child care and early education and to improve the quality of child care for all children. CCDF is administered as a block grant to state, territory, and tribal governments. CCDF also aims to improve the quality of care and promote children’s healthy development and learning by supporting child care licensing, quality improvement systems to help programs meet higher standards, and training and education for child care and early education workers.
These grants will provide funding to address key questions of relevance to child care and early education programs funded by CCDF. Findings are intended to inform policy, program administration, and future research.
These grants will provide funding to address key questions of relevance to child care and early education programs funded by CCDF. Findings are intended to inform policy, program administration, and future research.
The specific goals of the Secondary Analyses of Child Care and Early Education Data Grants are to:
- Produce new evidence of relevance to the goals and outcomes of CCDF;
- Encourage active communication, networking, and collaboration among prominent child care and early education researchers and policymakers; and
- Build the capacity of child care and early education researchers to rigorously analyze existing data sets and disseminate their findings to multiple audiences.
The point of contact is Bonnie Mackintosh.