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County Program Profile: Alpine and Mono Consortium
Time Period: 2023–2024
QRIS :: Childcare Quality System
The goal of the Childcare Quality System is to increase the quality of child care and support family engagement by building a skilled and stable workforce. The Childcare Quality System is open to all child care sites without access to funding to support quality, including licensed family child care providers and family, friend, and neighbor (FFN) caregivers in Mono and Alpine Counties serving children birth to age 5.
Through the Childcare Quality System and a one-on-one advisor, a center, FCC provider, or FFN caregiver fulfills the following requirements annually:
- Completes 21 hours professional development
- Creates and begins implementing four Quality Improvement Plans
- Offers each child a developmental screening using the Ages and Stages Questionnaire
- Is part of a local support network
Program Contact Information
Childcare Quality System
contact
Molly DesBaillets
phone
760-924-7626
Funding Streams
- CSPP and QCC QRIS Block Grants
- Local and Hub IMPACT
- CCIP
- CPIN
- Child Development Training Consortium
- Mono and Alpine LPC and R&R
Partner Agencies
- First 5 Alpine
- First 5 Mono
- Inyo County Superintendent of Schools
- Cerro Coso Community College
- Catalyst Community
- Alpine County Office of Education
- First 5 Inyo
- Mono County Office of Education
Process to Outreach/Onboard Programs and Providers
We engage in orientation, beginning- and end-of-the-year meetings with providers, web posting, and distribute flyers with Alternative Payment checks. All providers are eligible to participate. Outreach occurs at the end of August and beginning of September.
Quality Improvement Program Support Strategies
We use coaching, training, Professional Learning Communities, and advising to develop Quality Improvement Plans and communities of practice.
Local Approach to Offering Financial Incentives and Stipends
We provide a site-level end-of-year stipend through IMPACT and QCC Block Grants based child and teacher counts. Additional stipends come from the Board of Supervisors. For the California State Preschool Program, stipends are based on the site’s tier rating.
How Children Are Served by QCC
QCC Settings
Children Served by Setting
Overall Child Characteristics and Services Provided
Children’s Races and Ethnicities
QCC Tier Rating Distribution
Language Spoken with Children
Testimonial
Going in the right direction with the QRIS, all interested in helping the children be the best they can be. All the agencies working together to do it; DRDP is required and long, but effective and necessary. Greater familiarity with QRIS and ASQ now, more ideas generated because people know what they are.
Center Director
Success Story
Children who qualify for special needs services are identified by Early Educators by the program-required ASQ assessment process and families have support through a home visitor accessing assessments with specialists to learn if the child can recive services.