Harris County and the City of Houston established a working group of child care providers and other key stakeholders to advise on their investments entitled, Child Care Subsidy Process Improvement. A key investment area established by this working group was the need to improve the current enrollment system for the Gulf Coast child care subsidy program. This program is the only public funding available to support family’s ability to quality child care. PFM Group Consulting LLC proposed a four-month engagement to deliver an analysis of the current state of the enrollment system for the Gulf Coast child care subsidy program, which is administered by Gulf Coast Workforce Board, as well as an articulation of how the board can improve upon its current system.
Reached out to partner organizations such as Avance Houston and Coalition for the Homeless to assist with outreach to form family focus groups.
The goal of this program is to receive information from families that have received child care financial assistance, those on the waitlist, and those that don’t know about the program to better the process and make it more accessible to families.