Recent federal investments in early childhood services through the Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge and the State Early Childhood Advisory Council have raised support for and awareness of early childhood services. Nationally, as states move to unify their early education and child care systems and align them with other education and health and human service systems, several questions arise: What role will each level of government play? How will success be defined and measured? How will service delivery, standards, and policy duplication be eliminated while quality and access are maintained for families?
PCG offers a wide range of consulting solutions to improve early education and child care programs and operations. With more than 25 years in the field, we understand the operational, policy and technology fundamentals of early childhood programs, such as child care, pre-kindergarten, Head Start, Early Intervention, maternal and infant health, and other early child development services. Just as importantly, we understand how all of these services need to coalesce to form an integrated early childhood system of care to prepare children developmentally for their future academic and productive lives.
PCG Human Services has 25 years of experience guiding state and regional systems through the planning process. We offer expertise in strategic planning, governance structure design, analysis, stakeholder facilitation, and resource mapping (including GIS-supported mapping). Our services include
PCG can provide child care subsidy management and program integrity to manage child care and early childhood funding.
EI experts in Public Consulting Group's (PCG's) PCG Human Services unit can help insulate your agency from external pressures by helping you to develop and implement a strategic and efficient system for service delivery, data collection, service payment processing, and reporting.
PCG assists key decision makers in aligning fragmented early childhood services structures into comprehensive systems.
PCG conducts statewide market rate studies and accompanying data analysis to assist states in ensuring affordability and accessibility of early childhood services.
PCG helps states and communities to evaluate program needs through assessments of early childhood services, identifying gaps for all stakeholders, including families and providers.
PCG has extensive experience supporting state and local clients in following OMB A-87 and Medicaid rules for services such as Early Intervention (Part C) and specialized home visiting services.
PCG has experience designing and implementing program outcome and quality improvement systems, including QRIS.
PCG has helped numerous public sector organizations to maximize resources, make better management decisions using performance measurement techniques, improve business processes, improve federal and state compliance, and improve client outcomes and customer service. Ask us about our child care consulting projects for
PCG provides Stage 1 child care payment services along with CalWORKs Welfare-to-Work (WTW) / Refugee Employment Services (RES), serving approximately 7,000 clients.
PCG developed a Web-based registry, completing the High-Level Requirements, Other State Survey, and Propose Solutions phases of work.
PCG conducted a needs assessment survey of young children from birth to age eight and assessed the quality and availability of early childhood education programs and services for children from birth to school entry across the state.
PCG facilitated development of a written implementation plan for the transition of eligibility functions from the Department of Human Services (DHS) to the Department of Education. The team conducted focus groups of parents, advocates, child care providers, and DHS staff members in six locations and helped make the final plan actionable by charting out tasks, responsibilities, timeframes, dependencies, and risk.
Mr. Kilpatrick, a senior consultant with Public Consulting Group's (PCG's) PCG Human Services division, brings to the position nearly 15 years of experience working with Tennessee children, adolescents, and families in a variety of roles. Most recently, as Director of IDEA Early Childhood Services in the Tennessee Department of Education, he supervised statewide efforts for IDEA Part C – Early Intervention Services and IDEA 619-Preschool Services.
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For more information about PCG Human Service's Early Education and Child Care Services please contact us at info@publicconsultinggroup.com or 1-800-210-6113.
