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In response to pandemic-driven urgency and a 2020 task force recommendation, Iowa launched the Iowa Child Care Connect (C3) in 2024. 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Decisionmakers—from governorsand agency heads to providers and families—want to understand the supply of and demand for these services in their community, but states’ data infrastructure is not designed to meet their needs. Because early childhood data is typically housed indifferent, disconnected state and local systems, securely connecting data across systems is necessary for state leaders seeking to provide useful information about the fragmented landscape of early childhood services.  \nStates are now working to enhance their early childhood data ecosystems to better meet people’s information needs. The state of Iowa and its Iowa Child Care Connect (C3) system are setting the pace. Launched in 2024 and governed by leaders from numerous state offices and agencies, C3 integrates disparate early childhood data and updates it in near real-time to help families, providers, policymakers, and the public better understand child care supply and demand.  \nImproving Child Care in Iowa Through and Beyond the Pandemic  \nLike many others navigating the COVID-19 pandemic, Iowa leaders recognized the urgent need to improve child care in their state—and the role of data in doing so. The pandemic exacerbated long-standing challenges for the child care industry. Already stretched and chronically underresourced, providers struggled to keep their doors open and retain staff, while policymakers often lacked the accurate and timely information necessary to allocate scarce resources effectively. Continued demand from families seeking—but finding it increasingly difficult to access—high-quality, affordable services magnified all these challenges.  \nIn response to a 2020 recommendation from the Iowa Governor’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board, Governor Kim Reynolds created the Iowa Governor’s Child Care Task Force in spring 2021 to develop recommendations for systemic improvement. The Child Care Task Force included members from Iowa businesses, nonprofit and community organizations, child care providers, and local government who convened over the course of that year. They made a final set of 15 recommendations to the governor focused  \nbroadly on raising child care quality for families and supporting businesses, providers, and the early childhood workforce.  \nNotably, the Child Care Task Force recommended that Iowa “develop a central online hub for parents to quickly and easily find information regarding child care facilities, openings, and enrollment.” Online hubs—also known as centralized enrollment or family portals—rely on the  \nsecure backend integration of early childhood data sourced from different data systems. State data leaders across the country are designing these types of public data tools as they aim to address common and persistent  \ninformation gaps for families seeking child care or other early childhood services in what can be a confusing marketplace and for policymakers wanting a more realtime view of supply and demand.  \n\n| Iowa C3\u003Cbr>Not all states integrate data efficiently, which hinders their ability to share useful information with communities and, ultimately, serve children and families. Fortunately, with its strong leadership and existing early childhood data ecosystem, Iowa stood poised to make the Child Care Task Force’s online hub recommendation a reality.\u003Cbr>Enter Iowa C3—an integrated data system that securely connects early childhood data to create better child care supply and demand information for Iowans. Housed at Iowa State University (ISU), C3 sources aggregate data from child care providers, state agency systems, and other supporting systems; integrates the data in near real-time; and uses the resulting information to ","cbCaioLuNTZMAIK7","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaioLuNTZMAIK7","pdf",203396,"English","# Improving Child Care in Iowa Through and Beyond the Pandemic\n## Iowa’s Need for Integrated, Real-Time Data\n## Launch of Iowa Child Care Connect (C3)\n## Public Tools: Child Care Search and Regional Dashboards","[{\"question\":\"Why is data integration important for Iowa’s child care system?\",\"answer\":\"States need a secure way to connect fragmented early childhood data so leaders can understand local supply and demand and provide useful information to families and policymakers.\"},{\"question\":\"What is Iowa Child Care Connect (C3)?\",\"answer\":\"C3 is an integrated system launched in 2024 that aggregates disparate early childhood data and updates it near real time to support better understanding of child care availability.\"},{\"question\":\"What public tools does C3 provide for families and decisionmakers?\",\"answer\":\"C3 includes Child Care Search for families and dashboards that compile vacancy information and supply-and-demand views across Iowa and regionally.\"}]","Iowa Is Integrating Data to Understand Child Care Supply and Demand - July 2025 | PDF",1792049873]