Finding the right child care partner can be difficult. Discover how two grantees recruited child care partners and worked together with them to implement an Early Head Start-Child Care Partnership program.

It can be a challenge to find the time for professional development in a child care program. Learn how one grantee uses innovative practices to offer learning opportunities for child care partner staff.

Obtaining a child development associate (CDA) credential can be difficult. Learn how one grantee uses innovative strategies to help child care partner staff members obtain their required credentialing.

Ongoing monitoring is critical to successful Early Head Start-Child Care Partnerships. Learn how one grantee developed tools and a collaborative process to build a strong ongoing monitoring program.

Continuity of care is important to all infants and toddlers. Learn how Early Head Start-Child Care Partnerships help child care programs provide consistent caregivers to infants and toddlers with special needs.

Partnership agreements guide grantees and child care partners in all areas of the relationship. Learn how one grantee develops these vital documents.

Early Head Start-Child Care Partnerships depend on multiple funding sources. The layering of funds can be difficult. Learn how one grantee aids low-income families obtain child care subsidies.

Money management can be a challenge in any business. Learn how the relationship between grantee staff and child care partners can foster better fiscal management for child care programs.

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.

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.