Ohio

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Ohio's Child Care and Development Fund Quality Infant/Toddler Targeted Fund:

FY: 2008: The Federal CCDF Quality Infant and Toddler Targeted Funds allocation is $3,256,268.

FY: 2006: The Federal CCDF Infant and Toddler Targeted Funds allocation was $3,315,965.

According to the 2007-2009 CCDF State Plans, the funds are used in the following ways to enhance the Ohio infant and toddler child care system (additional funds may be used to support these activities):

• Continued support of First Steps, Ohio's Infant Toddler Initiative, which includes 12 Infant Toddler Specialists that are housed at the resource and referral agencies.
• Continued support of the Assessment of Training and Technical Assistance Interventions in 915 infant/toddler environments to see which intervention provided the greatest degree of change.
• Continued support of the comparison of indicators in the environment rating scales with licensing regulations, with the goal of strengthening licensing regulations pertaining to infants and toddlers.
• Development of infant/toddler early learning guidelines.

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