How many CCEE workforce members are supported through CCDF-funded family child care networks?

CCDF family child care networks offer training, support and other resources to CCEE workforce members employed in family child care homes. Answering this question can inform outreach and recruitment efforts for family child care network participation. To answer this question, site level information can be used.

Identify Family Child Care Homes

Answering this question requires identification of family child care homes. This can be accomplished by examining Site Level information on CCEE program types using the Early Childhood Program Type Offered data element. The “LFCCH” field name for this data element identifies Family Child Care Homes when “Yes” is selected from the option set.

Identify Family Child Care Homes Which Participate in a Family Child Care Network

The data element Family Child Care Network Participation indicates whether a program site participates in a staffed family child care network supported by CCDF funds. Family child care homes participating in family child care networks can be identified by selecting those with “Yes” indicated in the option set for the Family Child Care Network Participation data element.

Identify the Number of CCEE Workforce Members who are Employed at Family Child Care Homes Participating in a Family Child Care Network

The number of staff in each Family Child Care Home participating in a family child care network can be ascertained by adding the values for the Number of Full Time Staff and Number of Part Time Staff data elements for each site identified as a Family Child Care Home participating in a family child care network.

Calculate the Percent of CCEE Workforce Members who are Employed at a Family Child Care Home Participating in a Family Child Care Network

The total for each site can then be added together to obtain the total number of workforce members supported through CCDF-funded family child care networks system wide. Additionally, the percent of staff working in family child care homes that are supported by a family child care network can be calculated by dividing the total number of staff working in family child care homes that are supported through a family child care network by the system wide total of staff members working in all family child care homes

5.2 How many staffed family child care networks operated during the last fiscal year?

To obtain the number of staffed family child care networks supported by CCDF funds, the numeric value for the System Level data element Family Child Care Network can be used. This data elements indicates the number of staffed family child care networks supported by CCDF funds system wide.