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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Poor Outcomes Outdated Goals Silos in Funding & Administration Gap Between Evidence & Practice Government Programs Where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

Laurie Davis, PartnerAdvance Consulting LLClaurie@advance-consulting.com612.285.2773

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