CLASP

This brief and fact sheet series offer states ways to improve child care access within the confines of the current system.

Accessible, affordable, high-quality child care and early education are vital for the economic well-being of families, communities, and the nation. However, families, especially those of color with low incomes, face significant challenges in accessing these services due to systemic racial and economic barriers.

This national report and series of state fact sheets analyze variations in eligibility and access to Child Care and Development Block Grant subsidies in 2020.

This project aims to provide a deeper understanding of the impact that federal COVID child care relief funds have already had across four states: Louisiana, Michigan, New York, and Virginia.

This fact sheet analyzes national and state spending and participation data for CCDBG- and TANF-funded child care for FY 2019.

Two years into the pandemic and one year after the passage of the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), this brief examines how decision makers implementing ARPA have used COVID relief funding and policy opportunities to lay the groundwork for longer-term, transformative change by equitably supporting…

This report was derived from the October 2021 Building Strong Foundations for Families project Economic Security Convening. 

This fact sheet highlights the actions that select states have implemented to make the most of recent historic funding.

Alycia Hardy and Stephanie Schmit detail the child care & preschool provisions of the Build Back Better Act. 

Christine Johnson-Staub and Isha Weerasinghe offer a set of principles policymakers and other stakeholders can consider as they implement ARPA’s mental health provisions.