This brief introduces a graphic organizer for thinking about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. This graphic organizer represents the early care and education system, including its constituents and the critical factors that affected it. The pandemic brought to light seven critical factors that you should consider when addressing each group of constituents while planning for, responding to, or recovering from a disaster. The constituents and critical factors help organize the information in this discussion brief and support efforts to refine the CCDF state-wide child care disaster plan. (author abstract)