The City of Madison Community Development (“City”) is soliciting proposals from qualified vendors for Family Child Care Accreditation Services.
Donor Name: City of Madison Community Development
State: Wisconsin
City: Madison
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/14/2022
Size of the Grant: $281,941
Grant Duration: 3 years
Details:
The City of Madison’s goal is to support the community in providing high quality early care and education experiences to the children of Madison, focusing on children and families with household income up to 300% of the FPL. The City recognizes that family child care providers are a critictal component of the child care services available in Madison. Family child care providers give families the option of high quality early care and education experiences provided in settings that reflect their family and culture.
Project Scope/Description
The successful entity will do each of the following:
- Provide services to approximately 60 in-home family child care providers in the City of Madison. Accreditation services include:
- On-site observation and consultation to family child care providers in the providers’ homes with the goal of improving the overall quality of the program. Observation and consultation topics include, but are not limited to: program administration; budgeting; provider professional development; family engagement; curriculum; environment; health and wellness; screening and assessment of children; inclusion and diversity; education and training.
- Evaluation of family child care program quality using existing Family Child Care Accreditation Standards.
- Provision and coordination of training for providers on up-to-date best-practices.
- Provision of culturally competent services directly to child care providers in English and Spanish.
- Coordinate and provide resources, consultation or services to family child care programs in and around the Northside and Leopold Early Childhood Zones including but not limited to:
- Activities to expand the availability of safe child care, including outreach to family, friend and neighbor caregivers, in areas such as recruitment, training, informational meetings, etc.
- Referrals of providers to pre-regulatory agencies.
- Coordination with pre-regulatory agencies to facilitate smooth transition of recruited providers from unregulated care to regulated, City of Madison accredited care, where appropriate.
- Revise and maintain Family Child Care Accreditation Standards in consultation with City of Madison Child Care Unit staff.
- Work in coordination with the local child care resource and referral agency, serve as a resource to parents in search of child care
- Adhere to City of Madison Family Child Care Accreditation System Standards (Attachment B) at all times, including the requirement for all accredited family child care providers to participate in YoungStar.
- Support a diverse network of family child care providers that reflects the culture, values and diversity of the families and households experiencing low to moderate incomes.
- Work in collaboration with other City initiatives, as identified by CDD, that seek to provide services to children, youth and their families.
Funding Information
- The City of Madison Community Development Division anticipates having $281,941 for allocation pending finalization of the 2023 City of Madison Budget.
- The intent is that the contract with the selected vendor will begin on January 1, 2023 and would continue for three (3) years, with two (2) optional one (1) year extensions.
Eligibility Criteria
The applicant must demonstrate the following qualifications:
- Experience working effectively with diverse family child care providers.
- Experience providing accreditation, resources, training, consultation and quality improvement services to child care providers using culturally and linguistically appropriate methods.
- Experience providing assistance to families searching for child care, including families where English is not spoken regularly in the household and families experiencing low to moderate incomes.
- Experience creating or reviewing, and revising, accreditation standards.
- Ability to effectively engage diverse populations and provide services in languages other than English.
- Ability to work collaboratively with other service providers in the best interests of the children, youth, and child care providers.
- Demonstrated history of effective fiscal management and timely and accurate financial and program reporting.
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