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Shifting Policy And Spending To Support Better Outcomes For Children
Laurie Davis, MSW, LISWPartner, Advance Consulting LLC
Poor Outcomes Outdated Goals Silos in Funding & Administration Gap Between Evidence & Practice Government Programs Where
Markets Fail
What’s not working?
Follow the Evidence Shared Outcomes Collective Efforts Focus on Children/Youth Innovate, Monitor, Evaluate,
Improve Reward Performance Tap Sense of Urgency
Where are the Opportunities?
Example: Early Childhood System Reform
Unlicensed fam-ily child care
34%
No care outside of the home23%
Other15%
Licensed family child care
12%
Center-based child care
10%
Head Start7%
Care prior to Scholarship Program enrollment
Parent phone interviews (n=122)
December 2010
Source: Gaylor, Spiker, Williamson, & Ferguson. (2012)
Number of high-quality programs in the pilot area doubled
Source: Gaylor, Spiker, Williamson, & Ferguson. (2012)
2008 2009 2010 20110
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
45
Family child care
Head Start
For-profit
Non-profit
School-based
Paper work/ adminstrative processes are minimally
disruptive to services
Able to support continuity of care
Payments are made reasonably on-time
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
Scholarship Payments
Private Payments
Child Care Assistance
Percent of respondents
Programs reported benefits of scholarship model
Source: Gaylor, Spiker, Williamson, & Ferguson. (2012)
Policy/Program Changes Waivers Data Link Funding to Results
Revenue Sources School Land Trust Endowments Private Investment Constitutional Amendments Set-Asides Human Capital Performance Bonds
Strategies for Scaling Up