Over the course of the last several years, LISC has engaged in studies designed to support the Rhode Island Department of Human Services in its efforts to understand true child care capacity gaps and to devise targeted and meaningful solutions to grow access to quality child care for all Rhode Island families. Of note are
A LISC Thought Leadership Initiative In 2021, Rhode Island leaders engaged LISC to conduct a Child Care Assessment that would build off of the 2019 Rhode Island Early Learning Facilities Assessment. At the time, the pandemic appeared to be over, and leaders recognized it would be beneficial to both revisit the recommendations from 2019 and
The report represents a summary of key learnings gleaned through the many and varied avenues explored in conducting the Rhode Island early learning facilities assessment from March through November of 2019. The assessment focuses on fully understanding and describing facility conditions, capacity and challenges. More importantly it is designed to lay out a series of
This report details the findings of the Rhode Island Early Learning Facility Needs Assessment conducted by LISC’s Rhode Island Child Care Facilities Fund (RICCFF) from January through May 2014. The report includes detailed information regarding the overall condition of Rhode Island early learning facilities with a particular focus on issues that may present barriers to
