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Secure common understanding of regional child care infrastructure and mobilize cross-sector action to address specific challenges, leverage unique opportunities, and yield returns through development of Regional Action Plans.
Landscape Analysis
Each region reflects a unique landscape of child care supply building challenges and opportunities. The goal for the regional landscape analysis is to build a common understanding of the current state and help mobilize aligned, collective commitment to the development and implementation of Regional Action Plans.
The landscape analysis considers the Region’s child care supply from multiple levels and vantage points, including from both the stakeholder perspective and systems-level. The landscape analysis toolkit includes a three-step process for the Regions. Each of the steps in the process adds depth and detail, ultimately resulting in a comprehensive picture of the Region’s child care system.
1. Go With What You Know.
Start by leveraging existing qualitative team knowledge and prior research. The proximity of Ready Regions to key partners and stakeholders and systems-level vantage as a leader in the Region provides much of what is needed for a foundational sketch.
2. Engage with Provided Data.
Leverage quantitative data provided by Virginia Early Childhood Foundation, Reinvestment Fund, and Planning District Commissions. Reflect with partners to understand why child care gaps persist and to drive your strategies for targeted investments, adding color and texture to the initial foundational sketch.
3. If Needed, Dig In To Learn More.
Supplement existing knowledge and data with information that may be useful for the Region to fully uncover root causes of child care challenges, close knowledge or data gaps, and complete the picture of the landscape with precision and fine details.