Comprehensive Consumer Education Provider Financial Supports

child care centers and family child care homes as well as license-exempt facilities. Family Services Specialists use this data to create customized lists of facilities for families seeking child care. All CCR&R are available to families and child care providers free of charge.

During FY 17-18: • More than 11,101 children enrolled in VPK • Provided 17,477 child care referrals to families • Responded to over 500 online inquiries related to child care needs • Distributed over 3,000 consumer education packets to families visiting eligibility locations • Responded to 54,071 phone calls

Provider Financial Supports

The ELCHC operated a comprehensive provider QRIS (Quality Recognition and Improvement System) program entitled Quality Counts!

Providers participating in the program had access to training, technical assistance and coaching along with grant funds to support their programs’ continuous quality improvement efforts. For July 2017-June 2018 our trainings were free to any director, teacher, and family child care home providers working at a Quality Counts! Program.

• Directors, teachers, and family child care home providers could apply for a $100 stipend for any 10 hours of trainings listed in the ELCHC Training Bulletin. Participants had the ability to apply for up to 20 hours for a total of $200 in a one year time frame. • Participants could apply for a $200 stipend if they completed Making the Most of Classroom

Interactions (MMCI). • Participants could apply for $150 stipend if they were reliable in Teachings Strategies Gold (TSG).

For FY 17-18 a total of $77,750.00 in financial supports were awarded to aid in improving the quality of their programs.

ELCHC coaching staff continued to provide support for the third year to the 101 teachers and teacher assistants in 15 child care centers and seven family child care homes focused on the implementation of the Creative Curriculum and/or the use of Teaching Strategies Gold (TSG). The ELCHC purchased supplemental Creative Curriculum studies for 45 classrooms (six new studies per room) and Creative Curriculum Highlights Hello Exploration Packs for 35 infant, toddler and twos classrooms, all of which completed their third year of coaching. The cost for these materials was $32,920.91.

Six of the centers and one family child care home participating in coaching also implemented Teaching Strategies GOLD assessments of learning for all enrolled children. Five additional centers who completed their three-year coaching project in the previous year continued to receive technical assistance on the use of TSG and implemented assessments for all their children. The ELCHC paid for the annual cost of maintaining subscriptions for all active (613) and archived (more than 1,200) children. The cost for TSG subscriptions was $7,356.

The 11 Creative Curriculum for Family Child Care Providers Daily Resources, which were purchased at the end of FY 17 for $12,749, were distributed to FCCH providers participating in coaching and attending a training on the use of the materials.

The ELCHC Institute for Early Childhood Professionals (IECP) offers a membership program for $25 annually. The IECP is a space dedicated to supporting early childhood professionals through a variety of resources, services and events. Member benefits include discounts on consumable materials in the IECP work room used for die cutting, lamination and book making including 20 feet of free lamination per year and a 25% discount on all trainings offered by the ELCHC and its partners. Members can also borrow teacher resource books as well as classroom materials