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Righting a wrong: advancing equity in child care funding for American Indian & Alaska Native families
Righting a wrong: advancing equity in child care funding for American Indian & Alaska Native families
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Alternate Title(s):
- Righting a wrong: advancing equity in child care funding for American Indian and Alaska Native families
- Author(s):
- Smith, Linda, (Of Bipartisan Policy Center), author
Rosen, Sophie, author - Contributor(s):
- Bipartisan Policy Center, issuing body.
- Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Bipartisan Policy Center, April 2022
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- American Indian or Alaska Native
Child Care -- economics
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion
Early Intervention, Educational -- economics
United States - Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- To the best of our knowledge there has been only one other comprehensive analysis of child care on tribal lands that includes analyses of the Tribal Plans. This lack of data on tribal communities drove the Bipartisan Policy Center to try to understand the need for, and access to, child care for AI/AN families. BPC wanted to understand: (1) How tribes spend their CCDF dollars; (2) General demographic information; (3) How tribes incorporate culturally relevant care into their early childhood programming; (4) The extent to which tribal CCDF programs coordinate with Head Start; (5) Tribal efforts to prevent suspensions and expulsions in early childhood programs; (6) How tribes conduct background checks for providers; (7) How tribes prioritize services for marginalized groups; (8) How tribes build the supply of care for underserved children; (9) The extent to which the state and tribes coordinate; and (10) Tribal quality improvement goals. In the fall of 2020, the HHS Office of Child Care (OCC) graciously provided BPC with access to 184 of the FY2019-FY2022 Tribal Plans. BPC analyzed 88 plans from small tribes and 96 plans from medium and large tribes. BPC worked with the National Indian Child Care Association (NICCA) to evaluate which information in the Tribal Plans best supports BPC’s analysis and contextualizes the tribal child care landscape. In addition, BPC reviewed other data as available and relevant, including U.S. Census Bureau, Department of Labor (DOL), Department f Education (ED), HHS, Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), San Diego State University, Data Resource Center for Child and Adolescent Health, First Nations Development Institute, the Center for Law and Social Policy, and National Home Visiting Research Center data. Not only are federal programs for AI/AN families systematically underfunded, but HHS and other federal agencies have not used the Tribal Plans to incorporate the voices, experiences, and preferences of AI/AN people into these federal programs. This was apparent in the lack of information on culturally and linguistically appropriate CCDF-funded child care programs within the Tribal Plans. For this reason, BPC recommends that HHS be more conscientious in analyzing future plans so they can be used to better serve tribes and provide more useful information.
- Copyright:
- The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (70 pages)) : illustrations
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 9918557285506676 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/9918557285506676