Share Your Strategies: Using ARPA and Other Funds to Improve ECE Compensation

In what state, tribe, territory, county, or city is this program or initiative?

Which agency/organization do you primarily work with?

Please name a program, pilot, or initiative that your location implemented to improve compensation (wages and/or benefits like health insurance, paid leave, etc.) or to provide financial relief for early educators and/or other ECE sector employees. Please fill out the following section for ONE program at a time.

If you would like to to share information about more than one program, you can fill out a new form for each additional program using the same link. Just remember to complete and submit the form for the first program first. You may submit as many separate programs as you would like, just use a new form for each program.

If there is information you want to share that does not fit in this form, please contact krista.olson@berkeley.edu with other relevant information.

Please describe the program, pilot, or initiative that your state/tribe/territory implemented to improve compensation (wages and/or benefits like health insurance, paid leave, etc.) or to provide financial relief for early educators and/or other ECE sector employees.

Which agency/organization is administering this program?

If ongoing, leave blank.

Please check all that apply.

Upload any relevant documents here that describe the program, funding amounts, eligibility, or application process. The following sections will ask you for details about funding mechanisms and level. Feel free to direct our research team to an uploaded document that provides more details for any of the following questions.

Upload any relevant links here that describe the program, funding amounts, eligibility, or application process.

What mechanism was used to raise wages, offer benefits, and/or deliver financial relief payments to educators and/or other staff? For example, did the payments go to employers or directly to educators and other staff members?

What was the total amount allocated to this program/initiative to address compensation (wages/benefits) or financial relief?

Please describe the funding amount and any other relevant details for any payments to providers and/or staff. For example, if a certain percentage of grants to providers is designated for compensation, please state the percentage. If provider grant or staff payment amounts vary, please describe further (for example, base grant amount, tiered grant amount, average amount awarded).

Please describe any eligibility requirements for providers/staff (for example, length of employment requirements for staff, conditioning of funding on QRIS rating, or prior participation in public programs).

What equity metrics or indicators were applied to prioritize distribution of resources and/or community outreach efforts? What strategies were used to prioritize funds to providers who serve low-income communities?

If available, please share any data that are being collected on the impact of this program/initiative on providers and/or staff.

If you or someone at your organization is available to contact for further inquiry about this information please provide name and email.

Do you anticipate having more information about compensation strategies in the coming months? A researcher from our team can reach back out and prompt you to fill out this survey at a designated date after more state and local spending decisions have been made. Indicate a date below that our team can reach out to you.