Section 50.620  Approvable Models of Collaboration

a)         Approvable models of collaboration for the Child Care Collaboration Program include the following:

1)         Two or more center-based agencies.  Collaborative arrangements between child care and Head Start or ISBE pre-kindergarten centers in which services are provided and children receive their care in one location.

2)         Early childhood providers and family child care homes or networks.  Collaborative arrangements between child care and Head Start or ISBE pre-kindergarten programs using family child care homes and/or home networks in which services are provided and children receive their care in one location.

3)         One early childhood provider, two types of funding.  Child care and Head Start or ISBE pre-kindergarten programs that receive the other type of funding to provide services and children receive their care in one location.

4)         Use of child care certificates.  Collaborative arrangements in which Head Start or ISBE pre-kindergarten programs use the child care certificate system in which services are provided and children receive their care in one location.

b)         Approvable/Approved Child Care Collaboration Programs must demonstrate to the Department compliance with the qualifications outlined in Section 50.630(a) to be approved.

c)         Models of Child Care Collaboration that are not approvable under this Section include the following:

1)         any arrangements using child care subsidy funding in which children move during the day and are served in more than one location; or

2)         any collaborative arrangement using child care subsidy funding in which the provider cannot demonstrate the quality factors listed in Section 50.630(a).

(Source:  Added at 27 Ill. Reg. 12090, effective July 14, 2003)