Director(s): Virginia Reynolds
Contact(s): Elissa Provance, 916.492.4017

Project Description: This project is to conduct a comprehensive, interagency study on the barriers to child care for children birth to five years of age with disabilities and other special needs.

Project activities include:

• identifying current policies and effective practices for successful inclusion;
  
• recommending policy changes needed to improve access to child care for children with disabilities and other special needs; and
  
• providing targeted technical assistance to specific counties to further refine the recommendations for successful local implementation.
  

WestEd staff involved with this project:

• Elissa Provance, Communications Coordinator
  

The following resource is available on-line in PDF format.

Barriers to Inclusive Child Care: Research Study Findings and Recommendations