FY27 480-20-3718 Leadership Training and Tiered Reimbursement – Quality Discretionary Grantee

The Illinois Early Childhood agency is seeking a contractor to provide Early Childhood Leadership Training, which includes Taking Charge of Change Leadership Training, Technology Training, and Family Child Care Management Institute. The contractor will also conduct on-site assessments at the Silver and Gold levels of the quality rating and improvement system, ExceleRate Illinois, and provide technical assistance to the Child Care Resource and Referral (CCR&R) system. The training topics will be determined based on feedback from conducting a needs assessment of home providers. • The contractor will develop, maintain, and implement a training institute for center-based program administrators. • The contractor will provide technology training modules for child care center administrators. • The contractor will develop and implement community-based training institutes for family child care home providers. • The contractor will conduct on-site assessments using Environment Rating Scales (ERS) and provide electronic reports. • The contractor will work to accomplish a goal of 85% or higher inter-rater reliability for each assessment instrument.