From Data to Action: A Guide to Early Child Care Data

CARES staff and expert Sarah Kennedy, MU Extension Field Specialist in Community Development, discuss accessing, interpreting, and implementing data around early child care. This webinar introduces you to sources of child care data, provides questions each source can help answer, and discusses next steps for turning data into action. The data featured includes both national and Missouri-specific sources of information. 0:00 - 2:22 Webinar Introduction 2:23 - 7:12 Agenda Setting and Importance of Data 7:13 - 11:26 2024 Child Care Price & Landscape Analysis 11:27 - 13:44 Kids Count 13:45 - 15:58 Early Childhood Workforce Index 2024 15:59 - 18:08 Data on Child Care and Learning in the US 18:09 - 20:41 Child Care Gap & Head Start Assessment 20:42 - 21:42 Economic Impact of Child Care by State 21:43 - 24:39 Child Care Aware of Missouri 24:40 - 25:49 Missouri Champion of Children 25:50 - 27:39 Missouri Child Care Works 27:40 - 28:54 MU Extension Research 28:55 - 35:13 SparkMap Overview and Finding Child Care Data 35:14 - 35:38 Wrap up