OECD

OECD consists of the following two functional units: Child Care and the Enterprise Change Management Office (ECMO).

About the Child Care Unit

This unit provides funding to enhance the quality, affordability, and supply of child care available to Virginia's families. Child care programs are child-centered, family-focused services that support the family goals of economic self-sufficiency and child development by providing substitute parental care, protection, guidance, and early childhood education.Toward this end, policies and service strategies are designed to meet the following goals:

• To provide low-income families with the financial resources to find and afford quality child care for their children
• To ensure that the family child care program contributes to the broader objective of self-sufficiency
• To provide child care to parents trying to achieve independence from public assistance
• To promote parental choice in the selection of child care
• To empower working parents to make their own decisions on the child care that best suits their family's needs
• To provide consumer education to help parents make informed choices about child care
• To ensure that subsidy dollars are provided to the neediest families
• To enhance the quality and increase the supply of child care for all families
• To improve the coordination among child care programs and early childhood development programs.

About ECMO

ECMO objectives are to:

• Understand the Virginia Social Service System (VSSS) strategic direction, communicate that vision to its members and ensure the VSSS organizational structure and culture successfully sustain change
• Understand the VSSS business model, plan organizational structure changes needed, appoint project managers and form work groups chartered to carry out specific tasks
• Anticipate, recognize and resolve barriers to change
• Evaluate new initiatives, such as the Enterprise Delivery System, to make sure they are consistent with VSSS strategic direction.