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DEEP DIVE: Child Care Assistance

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By: Christine Johnson-Staub and Anna Carter, National Collaborative for Infants & Toddlers, Pritzker Children's Initiative, BUILD Initiative December 6, 2018
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This slide deck, featuring Christine Johnson-Staub, Center on Law and Social Policy Anna Carter, Division of Child Development and Early Education, North Carolina, provides a deep dive on child care assistance. Information includes background on CCDBG (child care development block grants), family friendly/continuity in policies and practices, copayment policies and practices, establishing and implementing a framework for child care and child care assistance, and alternate rate setting.

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Financing Highlights

Report November 1, 2023

PDG B-5 Planning and Renewal Grants are being used by states across a wide range of content areas in the early childhood care and education system, and in a variety of ways. The federal funding provides a systems framework and seeks to offer flexibility within that framework. States are using the federal funding to build capacity, create infrastructure, provide direct services, and pilot work that is new for them. This work is occurring within a broad framework provided by the federal government. This brief explores the choices that PDG B-5 grantees plan for the use of the financing provided, which has impact on the overall ECCE systems that they are building and implementing. Within PDG B-5, states had to demonstrate how they would allocate the financial resources available across required and discretionary activity categories. We can learn about their priorities from a look at the choices that they made.