Strategies

• Improve state and local child care policies and strategies: 1) Increase Missouri child care subsidies; 2) Promote universal access to voluntary Pre-K programs; 3) Support implementation of Quality Rating System.
  Lead Agencies: Child Day Care Association and Vision for Children at Risk
  
  
• Implement City of St. Louis Strategic Plan for Early Childhood Success: 1) Streamline child care licensing in the City of St. Louis; 2) Enforce annual lead testing; 3) Increase urban PAT participation.
  Lead Agencies: Early Childhood Success Steering Committee
  
  
• Increase access to services support services for young children with special needs.
  Lead Agency: Childgarden
  
  
• Maintain T.E.A.C.H. (Teacher Education and Compensation Helps) Program.
  Lead Agency: Missouri Child Care Resource and Referral Network
  
  
• Create early childhood data and information system.
  Lead Agency: E. Desmond Lee Technology and Learning Center, College of Education, UM ? St. Louis