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Rhode Island's Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) Quality Infant/Toddler Earmark:

FY 2006: The Federal CCDF Quality Infant and Toddler Earmark is $284,681.

FY 2004: The Federal CCDF Quality Infant and Toddler Earmark was $272,257.

The funds are used in the following ways to enhance the Rhode Island infant and toddler child care system (additional funds may be used to support these activities)*:

• Rhode Island Child Care Facilities Fund , which gives priority to projects specifically expanding infant and toddler capacity and improving infant and toddler spaces.

• CHILDSPAN (RI's Child Development and Education Training System) activities targeted to infant toddler caregivers, including an Infant-Toddler Action Team , and Infant-Toddler Academy and CDA training and scholarships for providers.

• Child Care Support Network, which provides on-site technical assistance to center based programs and family child care (FCC) homes serving children birth to age eight.

*Rhode Island reported these uses of the earmark funds in both the FY 2004 and the FY 2006 plan.