Resources and Links

NCCIC Materials

• State Tiered Quality Strategies (TQS), 2004
• States that Define Levels of Licensing Non-Compliance or Violations
• Judy Collins Power Point Presentation "Exploring Tiered Strategy Systems
• State Tiered Strategy System Criteria
• Impact on Quality
• Tiered Strategy Systems
• Questions to Ask
• Tiered Quality Strategies Definitions

Presentations to the Task Force

• KidsFirst Project Timeline - September 13, 2004
• UW-Extension Teacher Qualifications Calculator
• UW-Extension PowerPoint on Impact Simulation - September 13, 2004
• DWD Child Care Section PowerPoint on 'Child Care Subsidy 101' - September 13, 2004
• DHFS Bureau of Regulation and Licensing PowerPoint on Regulatory Compliance - September 13, 2004
• DWD Budget: Overview of Child Care Budget Structure, Funding and Allocations - July 19, 2004
• Madison 4C Quality Indicator Project PowerPoint - July 19, 2004
• UW-Extension Options PowerPoint - July 19, 2004
• UW-Extension Options Paper - July 19, 2004
• Planning Council PowerPoint - August 18, 2004
• Registry PowerPoint - August 18, 2004

Other Resources

• Education Locations (UW, Private Colleges, and Tech Colleges) Offering Credit-Based Early Childhood Coursework
• REWARD Program Summaries - 2001, 2002, 2003
• Wisconsin Child Care Support Systems
• Planning Council for Health and Human Services
  An Overview of Child Care Tiered Reimbursement Systems: "Planning Council - Tiered Reimbursement Report"
• Environment Rating Scales Homepage: "ERS Home Page"

Related Links

• Head Start Program Performance Standards and Other Regulations
• Collaborating Partners, including Wisconsin Model Early Learning Standards
• National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) - Accreditation
• National Association for Family Child Care (NAFCC) - Accreditation
• National School Age Care Alliance (NSACA) - Accreditation
• Satellite Family Child Care - City of Madison Accreditation

UW-Extension: Wisconsin Child Care Research Partnership

1. Rating Scales
Brief #13 (December, 2003): "What can research contribute to child care consumer rating systems?"

2. Models for Organizing Early Childhood
Public Policy Options Report #4 (February, 2004): "Alternative Models for an Early Care and Education System"

3. Program Characteristics and Quality
Brief #3 (May, 2001): "Are program characteristics related to child care quality?"

4. Quality of Subsidized Care
Brief #6 (May, 2002): "Quality of subsidized child care in Wisconsin"

5. Report to Wisconsin Early Childhood Association (WECA)
Losing Ground or Keeping Up? A Report on the Wisconsin Early Care and Education Workforce, 2001: "2001 WCCRP Workforce Report to WECA"

6. Trends Over Time: Wisconsin's Child Care Workforce, 2003: "2003 Workforce Study"

7. Developing a Child Care Quality Rating System: Wisconsin’s Approach, March 2005

For more information and a complete set of publications, visit the Wisconsin Child Care Research Partnership website.

Summary of QCQK (April 2005):

• Basic info (pdf)
• Power Point presentation