Collaborative Slots FY2007

Child care slots in any profit or non-profit early childhood center or licensed family child care home that is receiving, or is eligible to receive, IDHS child care subsidy funding and that is engaged in a collaboration with either Early/Head Start or the ISBE pre-kindergarten program and that is serving collaboration children in one location.

The early childhood centers or family child care homes are those that are participants in the Illinois Department of Human Services' (DHS) Child Care Collaboration Program. This program was created to facilitate high-quality collaborative arrangements between child care and other early care and education providers and/or funding streams. It is enabled by Child Care Administrative Rule, Sections 50.610-650.

Source of definition and data: Illinois Department of Human Services Child Care Collaboration Program

Date of definition: July 2006

Date of data: FY2007

Note: Some slots in licensed child care centers are funded from multiple sources. As a result, the data reported for the various sources may be duplicative. For example, if a licensed child care center also receives Head Start funding, then a "slot" may be reported in the data under both "Licensed Child Care Centers / Total Licensed Capacity" and "Head Start / Funded Enrollment."

These data on "Collaborative Slots" will help users of the data get a more accurate count, by adding the columns of interest and then subtracting the collaborative slots for those columns. For example, users of the data could add the numbers for "Licensed Child Care Centers / Total Licensed Capacity" and "Head Start / Funded Enrollment" and then subtract the number for "Collaborative Slots / Child Care/Head Start."

Note: This data includes only those early childhood centers that participate in the Illinois Department of Human Services' (DHS) Child Care Collaboration Program. Because there are collaborating centers that do not participate in that program, the number reported here is an undercount.

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