| Alaska's Child Care and Development Fund Quality Infant/Toddler Earmark:
FY 2006: The Federal CCDF Quality Infant and Toddler Earmark is $197,539.
The Lead Agency contracts with local government or not-for-profit Child Care Resource and Referral agencies (CCR&R) to manage the infant/toddler earmark funds.
The funds are used in the following ways to enhance the Alaska infant and toddler child care system (additional funds may be used to support these activities):
- Recruit and retain qualified infant/toddler providers with financial stipends through the Alaska System of Early Education Development (SEED).
- To educate and engage business and community partners to support working parents, particularly families with infants and toddlers.
- To provide specialized training to increase the ability of programs to offer safe, healthy care that meets the developmental needs of infants and toddlers.
- To implement regional projects based on the unique needs of infants and toddlers.
Specific activities performed by the CCR&Rs include, but are not limited to, the following:
FY 2004:
The Federal CCDF Quality Infant and Toddler Earmark was $207,631 .
The funds were used in the following ways to enhance the Alaska infant and toddler child care system (additional funds may have been used to support these activities):
- To retain qualified infant/toddler providers using financial stipends provided through the Alaska System of Early Education Development (SEED).
- To support programs providing infant/toddler care by providing infant/toddler environmental rating scale observations, preparing an action plan based on the observations, and providing funding to help achieve the action plan goals.
- To educate and engage business and community partners to support working parents, particularly families with infants and toddlers.
- Specialized training to increase the ability of programs to offer safe, healthy care that meets the needs of infants and toddlers.
- To develop marketing strategies (i.e. newsletters, projects, incentive programs, specialized workshops) targeted at promoting infant/toddler care.
- To implement regional projects based on the unique needs of infants and toddlers.
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