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What
is LINCC?
Recognizing that
child care is an essential part of the California economy,
LINCC seeks to stimulate public and private investments
and policies to meet the child care needs of all children
and families in California.
The David and Lucile
Packard Foundation began funding the Local Investment
in Child Care (LINCC) project in 1997 to address
critical child care facilities development needs in eight
California counties. Currently, the LINCC counties
involved in the learning community include: Alameda, Kern,
Monterey, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, and Ventura.
LINCC is an
innovative project that brings community economic development
perspectives and practices into child care. A recent SRI
International Evaluation found that among other accomplishments
LINCC has:
Why
LINCC Works
The LINCC approach
is based on the theory that positioning child care as
a set of independently owned and operated businessess
that make important contributions to the local and state
economy will lead to the same kinds of supports and protections
available to other key businesses and industries, most
notably in the area of capitalization in facilties.
The implementation
of four key strategies listed below leads to a specific
set of intermediate outcomes that, in turn, results in
facilities development, renovations, expansion, and ultimately,
to improved access to quality child care.
The implementation
of four key strategies are:
