Description:
The 2016-2018 Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) State Plan for Oklahoma details the state's implementation steps to address the requirements included in the 2014 reauthorization of the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) Act. There are aspects of the Act that will require changes in state policy and/or additions to existing services. Additionally, there are existing policies and initiatives that, in the past, did not have sufficient capacity to be rigorously evaluated. This phase I project will support planning and development of evaluation work that will lay the foundation for assessment of key aspects of Oklahoma's CCDF subsidy program. The project is also intended to lay the foundation for future evaluative work that will contribute knowledge about the efficacy of ECE programs, including child care subsidies, in achieving recent federal goals and priorities such as increasing access by low-income families to high-quality ECE programs and promoting the healthy development and school readiness of children served. The key aspects of this study is to: (1) examine how parents use information about subsidized programs to select care; (2) explore possibilities for supporting providers as they self-assess their programs' quality and promote continued quality improvement; and (3) refine a data system to describe where subsidy recipients receive care, the alternatives considered and, for non-recipients, which alternatives they pursued among other early childhood education and care (ECE) programs.
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Administration for Children and Families/OPRE Projects
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