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Workforce Development Boards (Boards) must promote informed child care choices by providing consumer education information to the following:
Boards must ensure that consumer education information, including consumer education information provided through a Board’s website, contains, at a minimum:
- Rule Reference: §809.15
Workforce Development Boards (Boards) must be aware that Texas Government Code §2308.3171 defines a “quality child care indicator” as any appropriate indicator of quality services, including if the provider is one of the following:
Pursuant to Texas Government Code §2308.3171(b), Boards must do the following:
Pursuant to Texas Government Code §2308.3171(c), Boards must post the following information in a prominent place on their websites, in Workforce Solutions offices and in mobile Workforce Solutions offices:
Each Board must ensure that information on quality child care indicators is provided in printed materials for distribution to parents and the public, including the Board’s web address for quality indicator information.
Boards also may choose additional methods to disseminate information on quality child care indicators.
Boards must:
Boards also must establish the manner in which to provide the information. Acceptable methods include, but are not limited to, the following:
Boards may provide this information using one of the following:
Workforce Development Boards (Boards) must be aware that Texas Government Code §2308.3171:
Boards also must be aware that child care providers requesting TWC approval of their programs as meeting a quality child care indicator will be required by TWC to demonstrate that the programs meet an established set of criteria developed by an independent accrediting entity, as follows:
To request TWC approval of a program to be included as a quality child care indicator, Boards must send the request to wfpolicy.clarifications@twc.state.tx.us.
Boards must be aware that TWC will notify the Board and the provider requesting the designation of meeting a quality child care indicator upon approval or denial of the quality criteria and the accrediting entity.
If TWC approves the criteria and the accrediting entity, before adding the provider to the list of quality indicators, Boards must confirm that the provider also meets the minimum health and safety licensing criteria outlined in the appropriate TRS Provider Certification Prescreening Form.
Texas Rising Star (TRS) Information
Workforce Development Boards must ensure the following:
National Accredited Provider Information
The following Texas Workforce Commission (TWC)-approved, nationally accredited organizations list nationally accredited providers in Texas on their websites:
Boards must update nationally accredited provider information in TWIST at least every three months.
Texas School Ready! (TSR!)
Boards must be aware that the Texas Education Agency (TEA) provides TWC a list of TSR! grant participants. TWC provides this information to Boards upon receipt from TEA. Boards must update TWIST to include information on TSR! grant participants.
As part of consumer education on child care quality indicators, Workforce Development Boards must cooperate with the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) to provide 2-1-1 Texas with information, as determined by HHSC, for inclusion in the statewide information and referral network.
- Rule Reference: §809.15
Workforce Development Boards (Boards) must ensure that information regarding developmental screenings includes services available in the workforce area for conducting developmental screenings and providing referrals for the following:
Rule Reference: §809.15
Boards have the flexibility to choose methods for disseminating developmental screening information to parents, including providing information through Board websites and providing a link to the Texas Child Care Solutions website.
Boards must be aware that they are not required to make referrals or to ensure that developmental screenings are conducted. The only requirement is that Boards provide information to parents on available resources and services for conducting developmental screenings.
Boards also are encouraged to make information and training on developmental screenings available to providers.
As described in B-202: Coordination of Child Care Services with School Districts, Head Start and Early Head Start, consumer education information provided to parents must include the following contact information for applicants and families whose subsidized child care is being terminated: