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Explore how states can optimize existing funding to support cross-sector QRIS initiatives, aligning scattered resources for improved ECE settings and outcomes. Learn key principles and strategies for re-purposing dollars to create incentives for participation and program quality enhancement.
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Re-alignment and Re-purposing: How can states maximize existing funding to support cross-sector QRIS? Finance Learning Table, Session 4 Louise Stoney and Anne Mitchell Alliance for Early Childhood Finance
Key Principles • Most states already spend $ to improve the quality of ECE settings • Often these dollars are scattered across a range of initiatives with different goals, strategies, target populations • QRIS can be a framework for aligning these dollars so that the various parts of the system begin to move in the same direction
Remember that… • Resources can be people as well as dollars (e.g. where and how can staff be re-directed?) • Resources can come from a wide range of agencies – not just CCDF or TANF • Resources can be public or private (e.g. how can I get my private sector funders on board?)
Think Systems When developing strategies to re-purpose dollars focus on crafting supports in a systems-building manner that creates incentives to: • Participate in QRIS • Improve program quality • Strengthen (and measure) outcomes for children
Thank You National Center on Child Care Quality Improvement NCCCQI does not endorse any non-Federal organization, publication, or resource. • Follow-up Contacts: • anne.walsh.mitchell@gmail.com • louise.stoney@gmail.com • Dmathias@buildinitiative.org • OCCQualityCenter@icfi.com • www.qrisnetwork.org