Servicios

• School Readiness
  • Including extended-day and extended year
  • Family eligibility and enrollment process
  • Provider eligibility
  • Provider payments
  • Child health screenings and referrals
  • Child age-appropriate developmental assessment
  • Provider technical assistance
  • Developmentally appropriate curricula
• Inclusion Program - includes the provision of assistance and consultation to child care centers and family child care homes regarding health, developmental, disability, and special needs issues of the children they are serving, particularly children with disabilities and other special needs
• Child Care Resource & Referral (CCR&R) - free assistance for anyone seeking a quality child care setting in Marion County
• School readiness and VPK provider professional development and training
• Family support involves nurturing and protecting children by encouraging and sustaining the adults who are responsible for children's care. Family support provides parents with the resources and support they need to be successful as parents, and as contributing members of society.
• Voluntary Pre-kindergarten (VPK)
  • Provider eligibility and certification
  • Child eligibility
  • Provider payments
• Quality Assurance and Monitoring
  • Providers
  • Sub-contractors
  • Child care settings
  • VPK settings
  • 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 participating 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 school readiness services to eligible, low-income working families.