Child Care Scholarships Request for Information (RFI)

First Things First Child Care Scholarships Request for Information (RFI)

 I am an existing agency or a partnership of agencies that has immediate capacity to implement a child care scholarship program in the La Paz/Mohave Region within First Things First’s Standards of Practice and Scope of Work for child care scholarships.

Agency Name:______

Address:______

City:______AZ Zip Code: ______

Contact Person:______

Phone: ( )______Email:______

Web Site: http://www.______

Description of programs currently provided by your organization and the target populations served. First Things First Regions you currently serve with your existing programs. (mark all that apply)

 Entire State  Entire Maricopa County  Northeast Maricopa  Northwest Maricopa  Southwest Maricopa  Southeast Maricopa  Central Phoenix  South Phoenix  North Phoenix  Yavapai  Entire Pima County  Pima North  Pima Central  Pima South  Cochise County  Yuma County  Coconino County  Pinal County  Gila County  Graham/Greenlee County  LaPaz/Mohave Counties  Santa Cruz County  Navajo/Apache County

Do you serve a Tribal Nation?  Cocopah Tribe  Colorado Indian Tribes  Hualapai Tribe  Navajo Nation  White Mountain Apache Tribe  Gila River Indian Community  Salt River Indian Community  San Carlos Apache Tribe  Pascua Yaqui Tribe  Tohono O’odham Nation

Please list Regions in which you have an office:

Do you have the infrastructure in place to accommodate Program Expansion?  Yes  No Please explain desired expansions and time needed to expand current services into other regional areas:

Year Agency Established: ______Year Program Established: ______

Briefly address how your organization meets the First Things First Scope of Work for the Child Care Scholarship program.

Describe your ability to serve the entire La Paz/Mohave region or identify the communities which you can serve. The scholarships will be administered through qualified child care providers, including centers and homes, in every community across the region. Describe your organization’s capacity and ability to implement the child care scholarship program immediately. Organizations must have the business capacity to recruit providers, both homes and centers, develop individual binding agreements with providers, issue a federal form 1099 to each provider and require documentation of all information related to family eligibility, provider reporting, scholarship amounts, and reimbursement requests.

Explain your experience in funding community-based providers by varying types and sizes including small and group home family providers, nonprofit providers, for profit providers, and other child care providers.

Identify collaborative partners (partners that enhance your program’s ability to create community impact) and the services they provide:

A.R.S. §8-1183 provides for a prohibition on supplanting of state funds by First Things First expenditures, meaning that no FTF monies expended are to be used to take the place of any existing state or federal funding for early childhood development and health programs. How would you ensure that you would not supplant current funding?

Authorized Signature:______Date:______

DEADLINE Please submit the RFI to Merritt Beckett by Friday, March 27, 2009 at 5:00pm.

Merritt Beckett Regional Coordinator La Paz/Mohave Regional Partnership Council 1979 N. McCulloch Blvd. Suite 106 Lake Havasu City, AZ 86403 Phone: (928) 854-8732 Fax: (928) 854-8742 [email protected]