Utah's Child Care and Development Fund Quality Infant/Toddler Earmark:
FY 2006: The Federal CCDF Quality Infant and Toddler Earmark is $1,095,408.
The funds are used in the following ways to enhance the Utah infant and toddler child care system (additional funds may be used to support these activities):
- Forty (40) hours of specialized training offered through the CCR&R system that results in the Infant Toddler Endorsement (part of the Early Childhood Career Ladder).
- Baby Steps Quality Improvement Project.
- Specialty Grants (outdoor play area or plumbing grants), to improve the physical environment of infant/toddler settings by providing safe and stimulating outdoor environments and the hand washing sinks required by state licensing rules in infant/toddler classrooms.
- Quality improvement grants , available three (3) times a year to licensed center and family care providers.
- Family Child Care start-up grants to encourage recruitment of infant and toddler care providers.
FY 2004:
The Federal CCDF Quality Infant and Toddler Earmark was $1,043,507.
The funds were used in the following ways to enhance the Utah infant and toddler child care system (additional funds may have been used to support these activities):
- Forty (40) hours of specialized training offered through the CCR&R system that results in the Infant Toddler Endorsement.
- All centers who provide infant and/or toddler care are eligible for small grants through the Baby Steps Quality Improvement Project
- Quality improvement grants , available three (3) times a year to licensed center and family care providers.
- Outdoor Play Area grants were released in 2004 to centers who provide infant and toddler care. The goal of the grants was to provide a safe, healthy and stimulating outdoor play area. Approximately half of the centers offering infant care received the grant.
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