To both determine needs here in Maine and to learn from the experience of other states, the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Child Care and Head Start contracted with the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) to carry out an assessment to evaluate the adequacy of existing financial and technical resources to support facilities development for the state's center- and home-based programs, and to formulate a set of recommendations for how the state can strengthen its early childhood facility financing and development infrastructure. (author abstract)