Resources

Consider this page your extended toolkit as you navigate the road to finding the right child care solutions for your community. Here you’ll find additional data, reports, and tools designed to help you understand the child care landscape, advocate for change, and implement effective strategies. Whether you're seeking data for a feasibility study or looking for funding opportunities, explore the resources below to find the information and support you need on your journey.

Iowa CCR&R Data Page

We are adding an updated 5 year trend soon.

What is included:

• County Data (live): The red box is access to the county data sheets that shows
• Children #’s Birth- School Age
• Total programs
• Program spaces
• Quality initiatives data (IQ4K, ChildNet (homes only)
• Child Care Assistance information

When communities are looking for total programs in, quality initiative participation. Communities will use these data sheets to determine the county overall needs and a glance at what the county has for child care.

Iowa Child Care Connect

If you are:

• trying to create more child care spaces in your community:
• advocating to increase child care wages at the Child Cares in your Community
• trying to find Supply and Demand for your community
• trying to conduct a feasibility study within your community on the child care need

Dashboards for Child Care Connect include:

Child Care Search

Enables families to search and filter for available child care using a mapping function that shows care by geography or along a designated route.

Vacancy Dashboard

Provides near-real-time data about current child care openings by age, geography, and quality.

Supply and Demand

Provides interactive information about estimated demand for child care and known supply of providers across the state.

Wage Data

If you are:

• Trying to create more child care spaces in your community
• Advocating to increase child care wages at the Child Cares in your Community
• Trying to find Supply and Demand for your community
• Trying to conduct a feasibility study within your community on the child care need

This is the report that was released in fall of 2024 that shows seven counties and the data results after they raised funds to increase child care workers’ wages.

Child Care Collaborative of Iowa

Our mission is to guide child care programs to improve financial practices and optimize resources that benefit children, families and their business.

Iowa Women’s Foundation

Additional Reports & Resources

Gov Reynold’s Child Care Task Force

If you are:

• Trying to understand the history of the child care crisis and what the state has done to fix it
• Looking for the state priorities for child care

Provides background information on several state initiatives taking place currently. This will also give the history on where we have been in child care and where we needed to improve.

Wage Enhancement Pilot Program Report and Key Findings

If you are:

• Trying to create more child care spaces in your community:
• Advocating to increase child care wages at the Child Cares in your Community
• Looking for solutions happening across the state

Child Care Impact Report | Iowa Women's Foundation

Workforce report

If you are advocating to increase child care wages in your community.

Funding Opportunities - Coming Soon

If you are a community or advocate looking for existing funding opportunities.

Feasibility Study Roadmap - Coming Soon