CUSP creates a comprehensive profile for every child in the state, blending real-life information with enriched insights (Social Vulnerability Index and Child Opportunity Index).
Advantage: By modeling the entire child population of the state, not just those being served in programs, CUSP helps identify service gaps that exist in your state. Children that are not being served are included in the data so that their eligibility can be considered and prioritized.
Identify child care deserts and shortages as well as the underlying context related to a community’s socio-economic health, as measured by their Child Opportunity Index 3.0 (COI) or Social Vulnerability Index (SVI).
Configurable by ratios of capacity to population, or utilizing the LISA method to identify extreme child care deserts.
Helps identify communities that face not only child care capacity shortages bus also other socio-economic vulnerabilities that impact young children.
Identify high-need communities where families face income and child care capacity constraints.
Examine broad correlations between changes in policy or economic environment in a state and child care capacity in different communities, especially child care deserts.
CUSP estimates scores based on a range of risk scenarios for all providers who receive public funding to identify violation red flags.
CUSP empowers state program administrators with a fair, unbiased, data-driven view of high-risk providers that can inform decisions and corrective actions with the goal of ensuring equitability, continuity, and quality of care for children and families.
Flexible filtering to segment provider risk scores based on relevant, meaningful dimensions such as facility type, public program participation, licensed capacity, and location.
Detailed views of every provider and their current and historical scores provide crucial contextual information to support interpretation and decision-making.
The Child Care Fact Sheet is a printable, single-page view of high-level metrics that tell a story about providers and children in communities across a state.
Users can choose to view estimates at the state level or filter to focus on a specific geography within the state, for example, a county or a House or Senate legislative district.
Data includes easy-to-read visualizations of estimates of children and providers, such as the segmentation of children and providers along meaningful dimensions and the share of eligible children that are served by a state’s key publicly subsidized child care programs.
