The Child Care Planning Committee shares a vision and mission with the Policy Roundtable for Child and Development and Office for the Advancement of Early Care and Education.  Vision:  Children are healthy, thriving and have equitable opportunities to achieve optimal development and succeed in life.  Mission:  Lead, build and strengthen an affordable and high-quality early care and education system for the children and families of Los Angeles County.

Early Care and Education- Birth Through Three (ECE-BT3) is a new initiative designed to strengthen child care for LA County infants and toddlers.   In 2021, there were 610,456 children under the age of 5 in Los Angeles County, yet licensed centers and family child care homes only have the capacity to serve 13 percent of working parents with infants and toddlers.  ECE-BT3 is a comprehensive strategy focused on increasing the capacity of the early care and education (ECE) system to care for infants and toddlers, as well as strengthening the skills of the workforce providing infant and toddler care.  Key activities include:

The Los Angeles County Policy Roundtable for Child Care and Development builds and strengthens early care and education by providing recommendations to the Board of Supervisors on policy, systems and infrastructure improvement.

The Office for the Advancement of Early Care and Education has compiled a list of web-based resources relating to the field of early care and education, including licensing and regulatory compliance, resource and referral, assessing and enhancing quality, professional development, data and research, financing and technical assistance, connecting families to resources, promoting male involvement in early care and education, and more.

Universal PreKindergarten (UPK) is an umbrella term for all California early care and education programs that serve three- and four-year-old children. UPK serves as a bridge between early childhood and TK-12 systems and aims to make sure every child, no matter their background, where they live, immigration status, or income, can have a healthy learning experience before kindergarten. UPK also prioritizes offering a variety of early care and education options so families can choose the programs that best meet their children’s needs.

Based on the legacy of the Investing in Early Educators Stipend Program (AB 212), Workforce Pathways LA is a comprehensive workforce development model that works in partnership with Quality Start Los Angeles (QSLA), the County-wide quality improvement consortium.  The project supports participants along the career lattice with a focus on three areas: licensing/health and safety; professional development, permits, and degrees; and workforce systems improvement.  Workforce Pathways LA includes financial incentives for achieving milestones along the career lattice and professional development and career advisement targeted to early educators inclusive of family, friend and neighbor care, family child care providers, and center-based staff working directly with children and their families.