Ill. Admin. Code tit. 89, § 50.610 - Child Care Collaboration Program
a) A Child Care Collaboration is defined as
any braiding of Illinois child care subsidy funds or programs with other early
childhood funds or programs to create higher quality full day, full year
services for eligible families with young children. The purposes of the
Department's Child Care Collaboration Program are:
1) to facilitate collaboration between
Illinois child care and other early childhood programs; and
2) to increase, through collaboration, the
quality and quantity of early care and education for families in Illinois who
are working and/or participating in an approved training/education
program.
b) Child care
collaborative arrangements approved by the Department under this Section will
benefit participating early childhood programs, children and families by
providing a higher quality of care. Head Start, Illinois State Board of
Education (ISBE) pre-kindergarten, and child care providers eligible under this
Section must be able to demonstrate this increased quality of care.
c) All Illinois early childhood programs
using child care subsidy funds in collaboration with other funding, for
example, Head Start or ISBE pre-kindergarten, must comply with this
Section.
d) The Department will
approve child care collaborative arrangements under this Section provided:
1) the provider can demonstrate how the
collaboration improves the quality of care;
2) children are served in one location for
their full day of care;
3) parent
co-payments are collected and documented according to existing Child Care Rules
(see Sections
50.310
and
50.320
);
4) the provider can demonstrate
how the collaboration is coordinated with the broader local early childhood
community and is based on community need;
5) the provider is qualified and eligible to
receive child care reimbursement (see Sections
50.240
and
50.410
) and is a profit or non-profit early childhood center or licensed family child
care home; and
6) the provider is
using a child care contract or a child care certificate.
e) If the conditions of eligibility in
subsection (d) of this Section are met and the collaboration is approved by the
Department, eligibility will be determined in accordance with all current Child
Care Rules (see Sections
50.230
and
50.235
), as specified by this Part, with the following three exceptions:
1) approved Child Care Collaboration Programs
will determine child and/or family eligibility annually;
2) approved Child Care Collaboration Programs
will use a 90-day job loss grace period. Families are limited to one 90-day job
search in any 12-month period; and
3) children and/or families in approved Child
Care Collaboration Programs will maintain indefinite eligibility for child care
when the child's or family's participation in the collaboration is part of the
current TANF Responsibility and Services Plan.
Notes
Amended at 36 Ill. Reg. 12104, effective July 10, 2012
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