Purpose: Multnomah County’s Child Care Community Fund Project is designed to promote child care affordability and quality in family and center-based child care settings. The program, the second pilot project funded through the Oregon Child Care Tax Credit, is providing intensive one-on-one technical assistance, wage enhancements, and scholarships for professional development to child care providers along with financial assistance to parents to offset the cost of child care. The evaluation is designed to measure changes in (a) child care affordability; (b) provider compensation; and (c) child care quality.
Project Design: The 3-year longitudinal evaluation includes a process study to document program implementation and an outcome study based on observations of child care programs and surveys with child care providers and parents.
Funding Source: Oregon Employment Department, Child Care Division
Start Date: July 2007
Project Team
Co-Principal Investigator
Co-Principal Investigator and Project Director
Sonia D. Worcel, M.A., M.P.P.
Project Staff
Louisa Burrus, M.A.T.
Reports and Publications:
Worcel, S. D., Green, B. L., & Tarte, J. M. (Oct. 2010)
Child Care Contribution Tax Credit Pilot Project: Final Report
A report to the Oregon Employment Department – Child Care Division. NPC Research: Portland, OR.
Report / Project Briefing /
Lambarth, C. H., Worcel, S. D., & Green, B. L. (Sept. 2009)
Child Care Community Fund: Year 2 Evaluation Report
A report to the Oregon Employment Department – Child Care Division. NPC Research: Portland, OR.
Report /