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 uses General Revenue to expand the number of Early Head Start (EHS) slots that are embedded in private child care programs. The competitive bid process requires the bidders to be federal EHS grantees using the federal partnership model that expands EHS through private child care programs. The contracts undergo an annual risk assessment to determine the level of tiered monitoring required to ensure the partner is in compliance with the contract and program goals.