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

Understanding the State and Local Role in Home-Based Child Care Infant/Toddler Care Understanding the State and Local Role in Home-Based Child Care: Infant/Toddler Care • 1 2 • Understanding the State and Local Role in Home-Based Child Care: Infant/Toddler Care Across the United States, state and local leaders recognize the urgent need to address the lack of affordable child care and the significa. [...] Understanding the State and Local Role in Home-Based Child Care: Infant/Toddler Care • 3 4 • Understanding the State and Local Role in Home-Based Child Care: Infant/Toddler Care The Challenge Child care in the United States is treated as a market- based service, meaning the price of care is closer To ensure the safety and well-being of children and to what parents can afford than the actual cost o. [...] 6 • Understanding the State and Local Role in Home-Based Child Care: Infant/Toddler Care Understanding the State and Local Role in Home-Based Child Care: Infant/Toddler Care • 7 Snapshots from the Field City of Burlington, Vt. [...] Families in Burlington who are at or below the Preschool for All (PFA) program serves three- and 80 percent of the Area Median Income and seeking four-year-olds, it was designed to support the whole full-time care are eligible for scholarships at high- early childhood system and not worsen the county’s quality programs in and around the city of Burlington. [...] By pre-awarding grants to help providers sustain their businesses and funds, providers were able to hire staff or make build capacity to serve more infants and toddlers.14 adjustments to space as needed to increase the number of infants and toddlers their program could serve.7 8 • Understanding the State and Local Role in Home-Based Child Care: Infant/Toddler Care htt.