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• 75% of the children receiving a 88 of children receiving a scholarship were enrolled in o eoho|ansh�vU beannoUedinmcenter Exceeds Expectations center or home with a four or five or home with a four or five star rating star rating. FY 2007-08 CHALLENGES O Please describe challenges your agency faced whil trying 2007-08. How did you work to overcome these obstacles? (If no challenges existed, please write none.) Funding in the scholarship program has remained constant or declined in the last few years while the cost of purchasing child care has been steadily rising. CCSA has continued to work with community partners to try to attract more funds into the child care subsidy system overall. As of September 2008, 535 children were on the scholarship waiting list. CCSA's efforts to solicit funding for this project will continue as the need for affordable child care grows. AGENCY BUDGET FY 05-0 FY 06-0 FY 08-0 Actual Actual Actual Projected Total Agency Budget $31.209.995 $31.331'276 $31.816,513 $34.601.952 Orange County's Contribution $43,025 $43,025 $43,025 $43,025 O List initiatives Orange County's contribution supported within your agency during FY OD: The majority of Orange County's contribution is used to provide child care consumer education and referral services to families. The remaining portion of the contribution is used to provide scholarships to support children in child care settings. NEW AGENCY INITIATIVES FOR FISCAL YEAR 2008-09 w CCSA is currently working on a system to offer consumer education and referral services to families through our website. In FY2008/2009, an online consumer education and referral database will be available to offer families a convenient way to access information about selecting the child care setting that will best suit their needs. The online program will assist families in understanding childcare neQu|adona, identifying high quality childcare and access resources available to help them pay for child care. This project helps children arrive at school healthy and ready to succeed by helping families locate spaces at high quality faci|itieo, which emphasize education and learning, and supports all domains of a young child's development. � The scholarship program is designing a database for families who need financial assistance to pay for childcare. It will be accessible to Orange County agencies that provide financial assistance for early care and education and Will contain information for all children who qualify. All childcare subsidy partner agencies will be able to use this tool for maintaining their waiting list. And, at a push of a button, profiles of the children in need of subsidized early care and education services will be available. Partner agencies will also be able to retrieve the names and contact information for all families that qualify and want their services. The goal is to ensure that families are able to access all resources available to them and to more accurately measure the unmet need for subsidy assistance. 22