Support ECCE Providers
Support ECCE Workforce Development
• Support the fixed costs of providing child care by moving from attendance-based subsidy to enrollment-based subsidy. Another option is to increase the amount of allowable absent days in order for the child care facility to receive the full subsidy reimbursement.
• Utilize federal Child Care and Development Funds, state funding initiatives, and philanthropic funds to
create contracts and grants that can help support workforce development as well as target programs that service specific needs or groups of children (like children with special needs). Contracts/Grants could be designed to support individual workers (like staff in child care centers) or specific programs or skills (like bilingual staff). They can bolster salaries, improve benefits, and increase opportunities for training and professional development. Additional contracts/grants could be provided to providers who meet the following criteria: • Serve specific, vulnerable populations like low-income families or those in communities with fewer child care options and resources.
• Increase provider reimbursement rates of the Child Care Subsidy Program.
• Extend the Oklahoma Child Care Desert Grants by braiding public and private dollars. • Provide incentives to developers and companies to build or help fund new child care facilities.
• Use Tax Increment Financing to help fund new child care facilities.
• Use New Market Tax Credits to help fund the construction of new child care facilities in low-income census tracts.
• Serve children needing non- traditional hours of care.
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