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This program 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.


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