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Child Care Accessibility Index: Leveraging South Carolina Child Care Administrative Data to Inform State CCDBG Subsidy Policies

Description:
The goal of this project is to inform our understanding of state subsidy policies, practices, and procedures that are associated with the accessibility and availability of high quality child care for subsidy eligible children at the local and national levels. This project will lead to a deeper understanding of high quality child care accessibility in the context of availability, parental choices and subsidy use. It applies innovative analyses more commonly used in geographic information science (GIS) to develop a Child Care Accessibility Index (CCAI)-an identification tool composed of two sub-indices. The CCAI will serve as a reliable tool for assessing accessibility in geographic regions using key variables available in de-identified state administrative databases. The study is grounded in previous research from the field of early childhood education and is being developed in close collaboration with the Division of Early Care and Education (DECE) in the South Carolina Department of Social Services (SCDSS) and other stakeholders with a focus on functionality of the CCAI and its application in the field.
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Administration for Children and Families/OPRE Projects
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