A Toolkit for Organizing a Local Facilities Development and Financing Network in Your Community

This toolkit by California’s Building Child Care is intended to assist child care advocates and others in planning, hosting, and sustaining a local network of key individuals for the purpose of overcoming the barriers encountered by child care providers in the development and financing of facilities that serve children and their families. A list of key players and organizations in the facilities process is outlined. It is important to include individuals who frequently work with child care providers on facilities issues. These people are most likely to understand the complexities that providers face as they maneuver through the steps necessary to manage the acquisition, renovation, or construction of a child care building project. Appendices include: (1) “Invitation to BCC Focus Group”; (2) “Scenario for Child Care Center”; (3) “Scenario for Family Child Care Home”; (4) “Focus Group Questions—Child Care Centers”; and (5) “Focus Group Questions —Family Child Care Home.”