To foster health and well-being by providing federal leadership, partnership and resources for the compassionate and effective delivery of human services
The grant program, under OPRE's guidance, is designed to advance the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) Lead Agencies' capabilities in gathering, analyzing, and leveraging data to inform child care policies and improve programs. This includes initiating partnerships with researchers to enhance state, territory, and Tribal data systems. The projects aim to assess current data and research capacity, develop questions to investigate child care policies, create logic models, identify and assess data sources, and tackle barriers to data use. Ultimately, these efforts are meant to empower CCDF Lead Agencies to make informed decisions to enhance child care policies and practices using robust data on children, families, the workforce, and providers within the child care subsidy system. This planning phase grant is an 18-month project focused on developing a comprehensive research plan to address policy-relevant questions through the identification, linking, and use of various data sources.