Overview
The American Rescue Plan provides assistance for early childhood care and education during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The American Rescue Plan includes $40 billion in child care funds to ensure to support child care providers and prevent further closures, ensure child care workers—the majority of whom are women—don’t continue to lose their jobs, and ensure working families have access to quality, affordable child care. $15 billion of these funds will go to the Child Care Development Block Grant (CCDBG) to subsidize child care for 875,000 children over the next year. $24 billion are child care stabilization funds to save and sustain nearly 449,000 child care programs, impacting 7.3 million children. The bill also includes $1 billion for Head Start to ensure programs can continue to provide vital services to children and families.
Estimates of Investments in Child Care, Early Childhood, and Families in Washington State in the American Rescue Plan
Washington state Child Care: $635 million
Washington state Head Start grantees: Over $13 million
Washington state Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) grant program funds: $2,255,554
Washington state community-based child abuse prevention grants (CB-CAP): $5,582,495
