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INFOLINE & SCHOOL READINESS PLANNING

CHDC has completed its second year of mapping Child Care Infoline data with geographic information system (GIS) techniques for the Departments of Social Services and Education. State agencies then distribute the maps and other summary information on capacity and availability of child care facilities to 14 priority school districts identified in the legislation.

Each priority school district is provided with a planning tool kit of valuable information that includes four maps and summary tables that highlights the capacity and availability of of accredited family providers and center/group/headstart programs. A directory for each provider or program in each priority district is also provided; this year we included additional school district information for each provider and a summary table listing the total number of providers located in each school’s catchment area. We also compared 1997 and 1998 summary figures and calculated the percent change between the two years. Highlighted below are sample maps and a summary table contained in the Hartford School District’s planning toolkit.

For more information on CDHC’s Connecticut School Readiness Initiative Project, please contact Dr. Allison Bingham, project manager at abingha@ccmckids.org or call (860)487-3556.

For information on Child Care Infoline data, please contact Merle Stoner at (860) 571-7538 or Sherri Sutera, Director of Dependent Care Services, at (860) 571-7544.

For further information on the Department of Social Services, Child Care Division, please contact Amparo Garcia, Lead Planning analyst, at (860) 424-5346.

Connecticut School Readiness Initiative
Child Care Availability as of October, 1998
Hartford, CT
Full Day, Full Year Services

Table 1. Summary of Headstart & center/group programs (ages 3-5).*
Capacity & Availability Accredited Non-Accredited ALL
  Oct.
1997
Oct.
1998
%
change
Oct.
1997
Oct.
1998
%
change
Oct.
1997
Oct.
1998
%
change
Total # Facilities 13 15 +15 22 18 -18 35 33 -6
Total Service Capacity 514 619 +20 1132 817 -28 1646 1436 -13
Total Licensed Capacity 814 860 +6 1405 1147 -18 2219 2007 -10
Total # Vacancies 29 33 +14 75 75 0 104 108 +4

Table 2. Summary of family providers (ages 2-5).
Capacity & Availability Accredited Non-Accredited ALL
  Oct.
1997
Oct.
1998
%
change
Oct.
1997
Oct.
1998
%
change
Oct.
1997
Oct.
1998
%
change
Total # Facilities 0 0 0 144 155 +8 144 155 +8
Total Service Capacity 0 0 0 558 478 -14 558 478 -14
Total Licensed Capacity 0 0 0 847 911 +8 847 911 +8
Total # Vacancies 0 0 0 216 165 -24 216 165 -24

* % change means the % of increase or decrease – a score of 0 means no change from year to year.

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