Regulatory Support

Comprehensive Tools & Resources

Informed by the brightest ECE minds from across the country, the ECE Knowledge Hub is a living, breathing platform that is responsive to change with comprehensive tools and resources that aid practitioners in meeting the ever-increasing demands they face. Tools and resources to meet regulation requirements are just a click away!

Federal Regulations

ECE professionals can stop spending hours of time searching for regulatory requirements, required documents and forms and so much more. Simply click into various Federal Regulations including labor and employment practices, required workplace posters, guidance on how to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act, or OSHA health and safety requirements.

State Regulations

Each state has its own unique resources and challenges. Along with quick links to difficult-to-find state regulations, the knowledge hub can be customized to include specific policies, handbooks, forms and other state-specific materials that make the platform a one-stop knowledge resource for all providers.

Quality Best Practices

The ECE Shared Resources™ Platform provides two unique opportunities to elevate quality.

1. The custom Quality Best Practices toolkit is a gateway for technical assistance specialists and child care practitioners to quickly and easily access resources that promote family engagement and meet health and safety requirements set by the Child Care Development Block Grant (CCDBG). Directors and practitioners can access over 220 tools including policies and procedures, guides, forms, templates and checklists.
2. Sponsors of the platform may also opt to have a customized QRIS Toolkit that aligns with their own state's Quality Rating Improvement Standards. This digital toolkit contains practical resources to help promote participation in your state's QRIS and provider advancement in the quality continuum.

Licensing Compliance Best Practices Toolkit

Compliance is complicated, difficult, yet important process in safe and high-quality child care operations. Explore further customizing your shared resources platform with a Licensing Best Practices Toolkit that aligns with your state’s licensing standards. This Toolkit provides a solution that supports both providers and licensing staff. Your very own toolkit will be filled with practical tools, templates, forms, and quick links to state resources and guidance that align with state licensing standards will quickly become a ‘go-to’ resource used by licensing staff to build trusting relationships with providers and deepen providers’ successful compliance efforts.