Los Angeles County Quality Rating and Improvement System ( LAC

Los Angeles County Quality
Rating and Improvement
System ( LAC-QRIS)
Dawn A. Kurtz, Ph.D.
April 2, 2015
LAC- QRIS Background
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The State’s adopted 2014-15 budget includes $50 million in ongoing Prop 98 funds for the CSPP Quality Rating and Improvement
System (QRIS) Block Grant, with Los Angeles County eligible to
receive approximately $16 million.
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The intent of the legislation is to raise the reimbursement rate of
CSPPs who are operating high quality programs.
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The focus of the program will be to increase the total number of
CSPPs with a QRIS rating of a “4” or higher and to assist those
CSPPs already rated at a “4” or above to maintain their rating.
LAC- QRIS
Organiza(on
Role OCC
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Recruit par+cipants Process new applicants Conduct licensing verifica+on Conduct quality ra+ngs
LACOE
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Recruit par+cipants Conduct administra+on oversight of the grant Monitor OCC and LAUP for grant requirements
LAUP
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Recruit par+cipants Provide coaching/mentoring and trainings for center based programs Administer fiscal incen+ves
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Resource & Referral Agencies
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Provide coaching/mentoring for Family Child Care programs Publicize quality ra+ng informa+on and make it accessible to families and other child care consumers