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At Quality Care for Children (QCC), it is our privilege each year to listen and learn from child care providers who nurture and educate thousands of children across Georgia.

These perspectives are critical to advancing our shared goals of improving quality, expanding access, strengthening affordability, and ensuring the long-term sustainability of child care across Georgia. This survey remains one of the most important ways we understand provider experiences and identify how best to support children, families, and the systems that serve them.

QCC developed this strategic plan to meet the demands of today and prepare for the landscape of needs anticipated in the future. This plan reflects strategic priorities, goals, and objectives for the organization from 2022 to 2026. The specific initiatives and the plans to measure progress are also included. As we developed our plan, we reviewed our vision, mission, values, and guiding principles. While our vision remains unchanged, we have proposed a set of updates (highlighted below) to our mission, values, and guiding principles to align to reflect our focus and priorities at this time.

We are pleased to share the results of our 2025 Biennial Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) Provider Participation Survey, conducted by Quality Care for Children (QCC). As a nonprofit organization and CACFP sponsor for over 40 years in Georgia, QCC remains deeply committed to supporting child care programs with the tools, training, and resources they need to deliver high-quality nutrition to chidren across our state. Our dedicated Nutrition Services team of 26 professionals is honored to partner with more than 580 family child care homes, centers, and shelters, helping them navigate compliance, streamline operations, and provide meals that nourish children during their most critical developmental years.

Luminary Evaluation conducted a comprehensive evaluation of QCC’s Business Support Services program. This report documents improvements among participating child care providers in enrollment, fee collection, and monthly revenue, while highlighting the role of personalized business coaching, access to automation tools, and targeted training. Findings also underscore the importance of QCC’s Provider Resource Hub and Business Exchange platform in fostering sustainability and peer learning across the child care sector.

In March 2025, Quality Care for Children (QCC) invited all licensed child care programs in Georgia, including centers and family child care homes, to participate in our annual provider survey to better understand industry concerns and needs. The survey data paints a clear picture: Georgia's child care ecosystem is experiencing intersecting challenges that, if left unaddressed, threaten the stability of care for thousands of families.

QCC initiated a Staffed Family Child Care Network (Network) in 2020, during the COVID pandemic. The Network was designed to help providers improve their business operations and finances to sustain the availability of home-based child care in the state. The Network – developed, modified and enhanced over a four-year period – included financial health and knowledge assessments, intensive training, hands-on business coaching and automation support, and online resources for participating providers.

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Quality Care for Children conducted its annual Provider Pulse Check survey in March 2024 to collect a snapshot of the current landscape shared by child care providers across the state. These data and findings help us identify support opportunities and create partnerships to rally awareness for emerging needs.

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For more than four decades, Quality Care for Children (QCC) has been deeply impacting the lives of children ages 0-5 and their families across the state of Georgia. As a prominent non-profit agency, our mission revolves around ensuring that every child in the state receives high-quality early care and education.

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Quality Care for Children conducted a survey of child care providers across Georgia to gauge their anticipated impact of federal stabilization grants coming to an end.

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Annual Child Care Provider Survey. With over 40 years of experience, Quality Care for Children (QCC) is an industry leader working hard for Georgia’s infants and young children. QCC’s comprehensive approach involves working directly with Georgia’s children, parents, and child care providers.

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Operating a child care program has long been a challenging endeavor – as parents struggle with the cost of care, child care businesses have struggled to offer high-quality programs based on a budget that largely represents what parents can pay, not what it costs to offer high-quality program.

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The purpose of this research is to examine the impact of a potential minimum wage increase to $15 per hour on the sustainability of child care programs and the cost of care in Fulton County Georgia, which includes a large portion of the Atlanta metropolitan area.

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You might not see them on Shark Tank or in a TED talk, but for decades, Georgia’s women child care program owners have been building an industry that sets children on a path to succeed and enables parents to pursue work and educational opportunities.

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With public school teachers throughout the nation striking for higher wages, we can’t help but think about the wages of Georgia’s early childhood educators and the fact that almost 90 percent of them do not make a living wage.

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It is clear that Georgia students, universities, and employers need college graduation rates to rise. While there might not be one single approach to accomplish this, breaking down the complex problem reveals a diverse set of student need

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The new mayor will take charge of a vibrant city with a reputation as a great place to do business – a city with a growing population and a major destination for young college grads.

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Early childhood care and education is becoming an increasingly important issue with educators, philanthropists, policy makers, businesspersons, and economists.

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