# - 35 West Virginia - Creating a Coordinated, Integrated Early Care and Education System:

MA 8 • West Virginia administers four programs serving children—Child ME 10 As the country adjusts to a new reality of work and home life amid the Care and Development Fund (CCDF); Head Start Collaboration WA 10 pandemic, American families are faced with the challenge of finding and Office; Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF); and CT 12 affording quality child care, now more than ever. [...] For this reason, states must administer funding with efficiency PA 15 and effectiveness to ensure families are able to access programs and to LA 16 VT 17 maximize the reach of federal and state investments. [...] State • Increase efficiency and cost-effectiveness of monitoring and FL 23 governments are tasked with coordinating and combining the many different oversight by aligning the administration of the Child Care and VA 23 ECE funding streams allocated to them. [...] It seeks to ensure that a full • CACFP array of high-quality early childhood services will be Bureau of Family Assistance, WV available to families throughout the state, that the state's WORKS early learning standards are used throughout the state, and that the ECE workforce has the knowledge and skills • TANF Office of Early Learning to meet the needs of young children and families. [...] It State Pre-K provides families with knowledge of and access to Bureau of Public Health, Office of Maternal and resources regarding ECE and ensures that the public and Child Health policymakers are knowledgeable and supporting of ECE.