Understanding the State and Local Role in Home-Based Child Care

Understanding the State and Local Role in Home-Based Child Care Creating Economic Opportunity for Providers Understanding the State and Local Role in Home-Based Child Care: Creating Economic Opportunity for Providers • 1 2 • Understanding the State and Local Role in Home-Based Child Care: Creating Economic Opportunity for Providers Across the United States, state and local leaders recognize the ur. [...] Understanding the State and Local Role in Home-Based Child Care: Creating Economic Opportunity for Providers • 3 4 • Understanding the State and Local Role in Home-Based Child Care: Creating Economic Opportunity for Providers The Challenge The United States’ current child care system is underfunded and largely dependent on private Demographics of Domestic Child Care financing.2 Child care is also. [...] economic sustainability and that providers value and Counties and cities can collaborate with partners such appreciate the direct financial and material supports.4 as economic and workforce development agencies, Comprehensive networks may take many forms, community colleges and child care resource and such as staffed family child care networks, child referral agencies to create networks for and of. [...] • Business supports and training to help providers manage revenue and expenses, collect parent fees and manage subsidy payments Shared services alliances (SSA) allow • Support with recruitment of families and child multiple providers to pool needs and enrollment to potentially increase income, and share resources to reduce operating • Support with navigating publicly-funded costs and support quali. [...] Food Program and the Child Care and Development Fund, which may help providers access additional revenue and attain economic sustainability for themselves and the children and families in their care.