Assessing community need for child care: Resource material for conducting community needs assessments

This guide has been prepared to help communities identify their child care needs and appropriate child care services or policies to meet those needs. The material moves through the steps needed to plan, execute, and report the results of a needs assessment in the most efficient and effective way for your community.

Assessing child care needs: Sample questionnaires

by Martha Friendly, Gordon Cleveland and Tricia Willis.
Developed as a companion document for Assessing community need for child care, this set of sample questionnaires is designed to help communities assess their child care need. The questionnaire collects information about work schedules, current child care arrangements and preferences, and may be modified to suit the user.

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