The ELC of Alachua County provides financial help for child care and school readiness. They work with a range of partners and advocates to get local services for children. They help kids from birth until kindergarten. Their help includes includes, but is not limited to:

• Providing Child Care Resource & Referral services
• Providing Inclusion Warm-Line services
• Determining child care financial assistance eligibility procedures
• Implementing child performance standards
• Providing child developmental health and/or academic development screening and assessment
• Determining use of developmentally appropriate curricula
• Ensuring health and safety requirements
• Coordinating with statewide data system requirements
• Participating in state initiatives to build and implement an optional quality rating and improvement system