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Services

  • Early Learning/School Readiness
    • Includes extended-day and extended year
    • Family eligibility and enrollment
    • Provider eligibility
    • Provider payments
    • Child health screenings and referrals
    • Child age-appropriate developmental assessment
    • Provider technical assistance
       
  • Inclusion Program - includes the provision of assistance and consultation to child care centers, family child care homes and parents/caregivers regarding health, developmental, disability, and special needs issues of children, particularly children with disabilities and other special needs.
     
  • Child Care Resource & Referral (CCR&R) - free information and referral for anyone seeking a quality child care setting in Marion County
     
  • Early Learning and VPK provider professional development and training
     
  • Family support and parent education involves the nurturing and protection of children by encouraging, educating and providing resources for the adults who are responsible for children's care.
     
  • Voluntary Pre-kindergarten (VPK)
    • Provider eligibility and certification
    • Child eligibility
    • Provider payments
       
  • Quality Assurance and Monitoring
    • Providers
    • Sub-contractors
    • Child care settings
    • VPK classrooms
    • Public & private grant funded programs
       
  • Child Care Executive Partnership (CCEP) - a public/private partnership program that helps employers meet the needs of a growing segment of their work force - working parents. Through this program, federal and state funding is matched with contributions from local governments, charitable foundations and participating businesses on a dollar-for-dollar basis to provide child care services to eligible families.
     
  • Public & Private Grant Funded Programs - The Coalition actively pursues funding from public and private funders to provide additional literacy and parent education programs, and to meet the mandated 6% community match for providing early learning services to eligible, low-income working families.

Quality Assurance and Monitoring

Quality assurance and monitoring is an essential component to the Early Learning Coalition of Marion County. Effective monitoring is the key to ensuring that quality is the main ingredient in all our programming.

The Coalition monitors early learning services and programs, resource and referral services, and voluntary pre-kindergarten eligibility and enrollment services all contracted through our central agency, Childhood Development Services, Inc. (CDS). The Coalition also monitors funded summer programs and grant funded programs, as applicable.  We also complete health and safety checklists for childcare providers in order to provide them with the information needed to provide a healthy and safe environment for the children in their care.

The Coalition's programming and fiscal activities are monitored by the Agency for Workforce Innovation/Office of Early Learning in Tallahassee, as well as an annual independent financial audit.