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Quality early care and education is a proven means for preparing children for future academic success and a necessity for working parents. Yet virtually every low-income neighborhood lacks an adequate supply of quality child care facilities. To help meet these needs, LISC’s Community Investment Collaborative for Kids (CICK) offers financial and technical assistance to develop and improve child care centers. CICK brings public officials, child care providers, philanthropies, and other stakeholders to the table to devise comprehensive and innovative solutions to child care supply and quality problems.

With CICK’s support, LISC has invested $24 million in planning and developing 140 new facilities serving 15,000 children in lower-income urban and rural neighborhood nationwide. That investment has generated an additional $150 million in public and private resources for these projects.

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Building Early Childhood Facilities: What States Can Do to Create Supply and Promote Quality (Brief)
08/06/2007

Publication Cover: Building Early Childhood Facilities
Fueled by mounting evidence that quality early education helps close the achievement gap, most states are increasing their investments in preschool programs for 3- and 4-year-olds. To help policymakers address the resulting need for new facilities, LISC’s Community Investment Collaborative for Kids partnered with Rutgers University’s National Institute for Early Education and Research to produce a policy brief on Building Early Childhood Facilities. The brief outlines strategies for successfully financing, designing and developing high quality preschool facilities. This is a summary of a more comprehensive report which lays out each strategy in more detail and discusses the advantages and disadvantages of each policy option.

Building Early Childhood Facilities: What States Can Do to Create Supply and Promote Quality (Full Report)
08/06/2007

CICK Resource Guide - Volume 4: Creating Playgrounds for Early Childhood Facilities
10/13/2005

Publisher: LISC

LISC’s national child care program CICK is developing a series of "how-to" guides to assist organizations that are planning to renovate, construct or improve their early childhood facilities, including outdoor playgrounds. "Creating Outdoor Playgrounds for Early Education Facilities" will help you plan your center’s outdoor space to achieve a successful environment for young children. It suggests equipment and materials that support a range of activities that children can enjoy outdoors.

Generous Supporters of LISC Child Care

JPMorgan Chase
William Caspar Graustein Memorial Foundation