Strategic Plan

	Strategic Plan 2004-2006 The mission of the SOLANO COUNTY CHILD CARE PLANNING COUNCIL is to ensure that all families and children in Solano County have access to quality and affordable child care, to ensure adequate funding for all forms of child care services, and to enhance the quality of available care. The Child Care Planning Council of Solano County began the development of their Strategic Plan in March of 2000 and has continued to update and revise this document over the last several years. The plan is intended to guide the Council in their activities, striving to achieve their four goals (see below). The plan is fluid and flexible and changes as the needs of the community change. The plan also changes due to new legislation and policy. The Council welcomes continued input on the plan during the implementation process. FOUR GOALS: Improve the QUALITY of child care and development services. Improve the ACCESSIBILITY of child care and development services. Improve the AFFORDABILITY of child care and development services. Strengthen and further develop the Solano County Child Care Planning Council. Many of the strategies considered to try and reach our goals include community awareness and outreach. The outreach includes resources for families and data and research findings to influence policy makers on the need to improve the child care and development systems. We hope to achieve these goals through collaboration with community organizations, agencies, families, businesses, providers, and other participants in the community. The Strategic Plan includes many activities such as: Implementing the Solano CARES program, which provides training incentive stipend to providers working in family and center based settings . The program is designed to increase the educational levels of the workforce and retain providers to improve the quality of child care and development services children receive. Coordinating the Centralized Eligibility List which is an Internet based system that allows programs access to the most eligible families seeking subsidized child care services therefore maximizing families’ chances to receive subsidized child care services, improving access for all family members to other public service programs that facilitates family self-sufficiency, and providing accurate, up-to-date, non-duplicative information to community planners and decision makers about our County’s supply and demand for child care resources. Implementing the Constructing Connections program which builds on local capacity to finance and construct child care centers, improves the regulatory and funding environment in local communities to support child care facilities development, creates or strengthens collaborations between the care and community development sectors, and improves the capacity of those collaborations to develop child care facilities. Advocating for increased subsidized child care funding to ensure that Solano County receives its fair share of state funding to provide quality subsidized child care and development services. The Council works to leverage funding from a variety of sources. Current activities are made possible by First 5 Solano Children and Families Commission, First 5 CA Children and Families Commission, the California Department of Education, Solano Family and Children’s Services, The Children’s Network of Solano County, and others. Download a full copy of the Strategic Plan. (Get Acrobat PDF reader to view PDF files.)
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Strategic Plan 2004-2006