The QCC County Program Profile provides county data from the Common Data File (CDF) and the Annual Progress Report (APR). For counties that are a part of a consortium, the QCC County Program Profile provides a combined view of the CDF and APR. Both qualitative and quantitative data are presented to provide a local view of early learning and care climate.

Quality Counts Merced County uses a five-tier system to communicate the levels of quality to our community. Each tier is described with a quality measure indicator: (1) Emerging Quality, (2) Basic Quality, (3) Quality, (4) High Quality, and (5) High Quality Plus. Programs are awarded gold, silver, or bronze medals in accordance with their quality measure indicator. A bronze medal indicates emerging and basic quality programs, silver indicates quality ratings, and gold is for high quality and high quality plus ratings.

• First 5 Merced County
• QCC QRIS Block Grant Funding
• IMPACT funding from First 5 California

• Merced County Office of Education
• First 5 Merced County Commission, First 5 Mariposa
• Merced County Public Health Department
• Merced County Human Services Department
• Merced College, UCMerced
• Start/Early Head Start
• Merced County Family Resource Council
• Child Care Resource and Referral
• Merced Adult School
• UPK Mixed Delivery
• UPK Planning Implementation
• LEA with CSPP and CCTR Programs
• Local Child Care Planning Council

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