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Download full textMatthews, Hannah; Lim, Teresa – Center for Law and Social Policy, Inc. (CLASP), 2011
The Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) is the primary source of federal funding for child care subsidies for low-income working families and to improve child care quality. CCDBG provides child care assistance to children from birth to age 13. In fiscal year 2010, states received $5 billion in federal CCDBG funds. States are expected to…
Descriptors: Child Care, Block Grants, Infants, Primary Sources
Office of Child Care, 2013
This Report to Congress is required by Section 658L of the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) Act as amended. The report provides information about the role of the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF), which is authorized under the CCDBG Act, in improving access to high-quality child care in states, territories, and tribes. The data…
Descriptors: Block Grants, Child Care, Federal Aid, Grants
Lind, Christianne; Crocker, Jarle; Stewart, Nichole; Torrico, Roxana; Bhat, Soumya; Schmid, William; Ennis, Melissa, Ed. – Finance Project, 2009
The Annie E. Casey Foundation's "Making Connections" initiative provides support to communities across the country to help improve outcomes for children and families in disadvantaged neighborhoods. The sites, together with local partners, are engaged in a range of strategies and activities, reflecting local conditions and priorities, to ensure…
Descriptors: Corporate Support, Educational Finance, Private Financial Support, Block Grants
Office of Child Care, 2011
This Report to Congress is required by Section 658L of the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act (CCDBG) as amended. The report provides information about the role of the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) in improving access to high-quality child care in states, territories, and tribes. The data and analysis contained in this report are…
Descriptors: Child Care, Federal Aid, Access to Education, Educational Quality
Child Care Bureau, 2008
Tribal Child Care and Development Fund administrators work each day to ensure that the children and families in tribal communities have the child care services that best meet their needs. The Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF), a federal block grant for States, Tribes, and Territories, is a key resource to help increase the availability,…
Descriptors: Block Grants, Low Income Groups, Child Care, Administrator Guides
Healy, Kerry K.; Broughton, Belinda – 1993
This fact sheet examines the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) program established by the U.S. Congress in 1990 to support families by increasing the availability, affordability, and quality of child care. It outlines the program's funding level, eligible grantees of CCDBG funds, regulatory requirements, family eligibility, and…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Block Grants, Child Development, Child Welfare
Foster, Lisa K. – California Research Bureau, 2008
School districts are central players in the child care delivery system: they operate a mix of child care centers and programs, serve a range of children of different ages, and fund their programs from a variety of federal, state, and local sources. This report provides a range of programmatic and fiscal information about the federal and state…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Educational Finance, School Districts, Child Care Centers
Lalley, Jacqueline, Ed. – Connection, 1995
This document consists or the six issues of the Family Resource Coalition's newsletter "Connection" published in 1995. These newsletter issues explore matters pertaining to family support and related programs. Featured articles are as follows: (January-February) "Board Approves Long-Range Plan, Reaffirms FRC's [Family Resource…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Block Grants, Community Development, Community Programs
Direct linkAdams, James H. – Journal of Vocational Education Research, 2002
With the enactment of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (P.L. 104-193) of 1996, also known as the Welfare-to-Work Act, Aid to Families with Dependent Children was abolished and replaced with Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF). A new system of block grants to states for TANF was created, changing the…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Family Programs, Block Grants, Welfare Services
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1994
This Senate report delivered by Mr. Kennedy describes elements of the Human Services Reauthorization (HSR) Act of 1994. It provides: (1) a summary of the bill which reauthorizes funding for Head Start, the Community Services Block Grant, the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program, and the Family Resource Program for fiscal years 1995 through…
Descriptors: Block Grants, Family Programs, Federal Aid, Federal Legislation
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1994
This report presents amendments to H.R. 4250, a bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 1995 through 1998 to carry out the Head Start Act, the Community Services Block Grant Act, the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act, and the newly enacted Family Resource and Support Act. The text of the amendments themselves, as well as the complete…
Descriptors: Block Grants, Community Programs, Early Childhood Education, Family Programs
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House. – 1994
This report presents the results of U.S. Senate-House of Representatives conference committee deliberations concerning amendments to S. 2000, the Human Services Reauthorization Act of 1994, which is designed to reauthorize appropriations for fiscal years 1995 through 1998 to carry out the Head Start Act, the Community Services Block Grant Act, and…
Descriptors: Block Grants, Community Programs, Family Programs, Federal Aid
Peer reviewedBlank, Helen – Young Children, 1993
Surveys how states are investing new federal money in child care quality and supply. Examines several key areas: child care licensing and monitoring; resource and referral services; child care for infants, school-agers, and children with special needs; child care for low-income families; comprehensive and enriched services; provider training;…
Descriptors: Block Grants, Caregiver Training, Certification, Day Care
US House of Representatives, 2005
The purpose of this hearing was to hear testimony on the effects of welfare reform and the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families block grant, and to examine one of the most important work supports available to low-income families, Federal child care assistance. The opening statements were delivered by the Honorable Howard P. "Buck"…
Descriptors: Low Income Groups, Human Services, Child Care, Block Grants
Center for the Study of Social Policy, Washington, DC. – 1995
This paper represents a pooling of diverse perspectives and experiences of four organizations concerned that the current block grant structure of funding for social and family support services will not adequately improve the social services system or the lives of children and families. Focusing on ways in which the current re-examination of…
Descriptors: Block Grants, Children, Cooperative Programs, Economically Disadvantaged
