Braiding federal funding to expand access to quality early care and education and early childhood supports and services : a tool for states and local communities Gonzalez, Katie, author. Caronongan, Pia, author. Early Intervention, Educational Financing, Government Federal Government The goal of this tool is to assist states and local communities in braiding, blending, or layering multiple federal funding streams (for example, Head Start and the Child Care and Development Fund) to increase the supply of quality early care and education (ECE) and increase access to comprehensive early childhood and family support services within a coordinated, comprehensive early childhood system. This tool will help those interested in braiding better understand what the process entails and how to find existing resources that can help with the process. Princeton, NJ : Mathematica, August 16, 2021 Mathematica, Inc., issuing body. Technical Report Text Illustrations 1 online resource (1 PDF file (v, 43 pages)) nlm:nlmuid-9918367882806676-pdf 9918367882806676 http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/9918367882806676 English United States Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY-NC-ND license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0