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Early Head Start – Child Care Partnerships

Top Ten Ways CCDF Can Support Early Head Start-Child Care Partnerships

Early Head Start (EHS) and the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) both serve low-income families and their children; however, there are some differences in policy, operations, and funding requirements. EHS-Child Care (EHS-CC) Partnerships will benefit from strategies to bridge these differences. These strategies might include aligning policies to encourage stability and continuity of care, streamlining administrative procedures, and identifying opportunities to support Partnerships and providers.

EHS for FCC Project Logic Model – Local Level

The purpose of this Early Head Start for Family Child Care Project is to design, implement and evaluate a replicable framework that supports a partnership between Early Head Start and family child care. This project will increase quality for all low-income children in family child care homes by leveraging comprehensive services that include health and social services.

EHS for FCC Project Logic Model – State Level

The purpose of this Early Head Start for Family Child Care Project is to design, implement and evaluate a replicable framework that supports a partnership between Early Head Start and family child care. This project will increase quality for all low-income children in family child care homes by leveraging comprehensive services that include health and social services.

EHS for FCC Project Logic Model – National Level

The Early Head Start for Family Child Care Project (EHS for FCC) is funded to design, implement and evaluate a replicable framework that supports a partnership between Early Head Start and family child care. This project will increase quality for low-income children in family child care homes by leveraging comprehensive services that include health and social services.

Benefits of the Early Head Start-Child Care Partnerships

The EHS-CC Partnerships program enhances and supports early learning settings to provide comprehensive and continuous services. It increases access to high-quality, full-day, full-year child care, including family child care, for low-income working families.