| GOALS |
Shorter-term outcomes: |
Longer-term outcomes: |
| Facilitate the participating childcare programs development and implementation of their five-year professional development plans. |
- A comprehensive professional development plan that represents each agency’s priorities and needs.
- A process evaluation that documents each agency’s progression through the professional development initiative.
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- An evaluative component for the ten agencies to document the outcomes for the articulated goals in their professional development plans.
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| Create and document purposeful collaborations with other MTF-funded partners to facilitate each agency’s implementation of their professional development plan. |
- Utilization of MTF-funded services by the nine agencies.
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- A synergy between the nine agencies and the other MTF-funded partners.
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| Increase the capacity of the nine participating agencies to be informed of changes in childcare policy and standards that occur at the local, state and national levels |
- Childcare staff at participating agencies will be informed of current childcare standards and policies
- Creation of a university-community model to disseminate policy information among community-based organizations.
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- Participating agencies will have professional development plans that meet current and childcare policy and standards
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