$4.7M in expenses

Licensing preparation -- in delivering these services, sfta also provides contract management, quality assurance, and professional development to our regional CCR&r partners. The long-term objective of this program is to create and sustain a field of professionals that are qualified and prepared to provide licensed childcare. The short-term objective is to support qualified and committed potential childcare professionals in preparing for the licensing process by ensuring safe and healthy environments are arranged and appropriate policies are in place.

$878K in expenses

Parent education initiative - through funding from the child abuse and neglect prevention board, sfta builds awareness and innovatively supports communities statewide through the successful implementation and sustainability of evidence-based parent education programming. The long-term goal of the program is to expand the accessibility of evidence-based parent education programs in wisconsin, while the short-term objective is to provide training, technical assistance and other supports to entities currently implementing evidence-based parent education.

$67K in expenses

Tribal training & technical assistance -- this contract supports the efforts and priorities of the wisconsin inter-tribal child care association (witcca) in the form of hosting collaborative meetings, responding to salient issues via conference calls, building trainer and consultant capacity among first nations, delivering professional development, and continuing processes to plan, refine and evaluate efforts. The long-term goal of this project is to ensure that child care related needs, identified by first nations in wisconsin, are responded to in culturally-relevant and responsive ways. The short-term goal is to provide culturally relevant resources, training and technical assistance and other support to first nations.tribal-rural project -- the tribal-rural project is funded by the wisconsin department of children and families with the goals of supporting tribal and rural child care providers in their business practices, credit-based education attainment, pursuit of accreditation, and engaging in training and technical consultation.

$54K in expenses

Healthy childrenbehavior help wisconsin - with funding provided by the uw school of medicine and public health's wisconsin partnership program, preventingexpulsion in early care is a five grant with a goal to prevent expulsion and eliminate the disparity in expulsion rates for children 0 to 5. This will occur because the innovative model of tiered support will be adopted statewide, supporting both a change in how the field of early education approaches challenging behaviors and a new state-level policy on early expulsion that is well-informed, well-funded and driven by families and early educators in wisconsin.