8.4 Public-Private Partnerships

Lead Agencies must demonstrate how they encourage partnerships among other public agencies, Tribal organizations, private entities, faith-based organizations, businesses, or organizations that promote business involvement, and/or community-based organizations to leverage existing service delivery (i.e., cooperative agreement among providers to pool resources to pay for shared fixed costs and operation) to leverage existing child care and early education service delivery systems and to increase the supply and quality of child care services for children younger than age 13. 8.4.1 Lead Agency public-private partnerships Identify and describe any public-private partnerships encouraged by the Lead Agency to leverage public and private resources to further the goals of CCDF: The Lead Agency collaborates with the Alabama Partnership for Children (APC), a private non-profit agency, to fund the TEACH Early Childhood Program. This program, along with the Lead Agency's relationship with 22 community colleges, has allowed for increased training and educational opportunities for providers. An ongoing relationship with the Child Care Resource Center and Employer Child Care Alliance promotes an increase in the number of corporate partners that support quality initiatives in child care. Many of the local agencies funded by the Lead Agency to implement Quality initiatives are developing private partnerships to supplement funding for quality activities and to maintain sustainability of quality services.