Quality Learning
What is Quality Counts?

Quality Counts California (QCC) is a statewide effort to strengthen California’s early learning and care system to support young children and their families. QCC focuses on quality early learning and care experiences because those experiences build the foundation for skills children need in school, work, and life.

 

Locally, Quality Counts Ventura County (QCVC) identifies and standardizes quality elements. QCVC is anchored in a 5-tier matrix designed to promote quality levels and provide supports for improvement in early care and education settings. QCVC receives and braids funding from the California Department of Education and First 5 California to serve the county’s most vulnerable children by promoting quality standards, enhancing the accessibility of high-quality early learning programs, providing educators and administrators with professional development and resources, and financial incentives that support quality.

Why Quality Matters
Research continues to show that children who attend a quality early learning and care program are more likely to do well in school and less likely to drop out or need remedial supports later in their education.
 

Families, eductors, policymakers, and the general public realize now more than ever that a child’s early years are the most critical for establishing a foundation for learning. With thousands of Ventura County’s children in out-of-home care every day, the quality of that care is vitally important as it impacts a child’s readiness for school. Quality Counts Ventura County aims to assist families in making an informed decision to choose the right early learning environment. 

Quality Counts Ventura County Participants

Early learning programs, including center-based and family child care, participating in Quality Counts Ventura County are supported with a 5-tier quality continuum framework across three core areas: (1) Child Development and School Readiness, (2) Teachers and Teaching, and (3) Program and Environment. Participating programs receive on-site support, technical assistance, and professional development and are eligible for a Quality Improvement stipend or a Block Grant. Quality Improvement stipends directly support efforts identified in the Quality Improvement Plan (QIP), including materials, supplies, and staff release time to attend approved trainings. CSPP sites rated at a Tier 4 or 5 are eligible to receive CSPP Block Grant funds, which support meeting QIPs towards maintaining and increasing high-quality programming.

 

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Quality Counts Ventura County Information

QCVC Flyers

 

Additional Information

 
Contact Information

VCOE Early Childhood Programs
805-437-1510

Or email qcvc@vcoe.org