Maine's New Child Care Plan: Good for Children, Families and the Economy

Research shows that working parents who receive child care assistance experience fewer missed days, schedule changes, and lost overtime hours. (CITE)

The Maine Children’s Alliance believes that this lack of investment in child care, along with stark changes in polices relating to payment rates to providers can explain the significant drop in the number of child care providers who are willing to accept subsidy payments from the CCDF system.

It is because of these disturbing trends that the Maine Children’s Alliance believes that the new State Child Care Plan is so crucial for Maine children and families.

1. Child Care Aware® of America’s January 2015 survey of Child Care Resource and Referral State Networks
2. Center for Law and Social Policy, Maine Child Care Assistance State Profile,
3. Maine Child Care Advisory Council Report, January 2016
4. Office for the Administration of Children & Families, FY 2006 CCDF DATA TABLES (FINAL DATA, JULY 2008)
5. Office for the Administration of Children & Families, FY 2014 Preliminary Data Table 1 – Average Monthly Adjusted Number of Families and Children Served
6. Office for the Administration of Children & Families, FY 2006 CCDF DATA TABLES (FINAL DATA, JULY 2008)
7. Office for the Administration of Children & Families, FY 2014 Preliminary Data Table 7 - Number of Child Care Providers Receiving CCDF Funds