This guide offers an approach that state early childhood system leaders can use to: Define their child care stabilization goals (i.e., goals for stabilizing child care through the use of all federal COVID relief funds for child care) based on the unique context in their state.; Measure their progress toward meeting those goals, as well as their long-term efforts to increase equitable access to ECE. More specifically, the guide offers a process for embedding equity and centering the perspectives of families and providers in making decisions about child care stabilization funding. State ECE leaders can use this guide to communicate to their state legislatures and the public about their progress toward child care stabilization, and to articulate what is still needed to strengthen their ECE systems. (author abstract)