The PDG B-5 Workforce Needs Assessment provides updated and comprehensive data about the characteristics of the current B-5 workforce, identifies opportunities to strengthen the quality and stability of the B-5 workforce across sectors, and provides information to help inform the state’s plan for staffing high-quality State Pre-K seats and ongoing program quality improvement efforts throughout the B-5 system. The assessment was conducted during the summer of 2019 by Abt Associates Inc., in partnership with Bellwether Education Partners and Dr. Stephen Buka from Brown University, and included statewide B-5 workforce surveys, focus groups, interviews, and extant data and policy review. (author abstract)