Children receiving Best Beginnings Child Care Scholarship in Montana

Definitions: The number of unduplicated children who receive a Best Beginnings Child Care Scholarship.

Best Beginnings offers scholarships to families to help pay for child care from a licensed child care center, licensed group or family child care home, or a Family, Friend, and Neighbor (FFN) child care provider. Families pay a copayment for child care based on a sliding fee scale. A family is eligible for Best Beginnings if they are working and earning less than 150% of the Federal Poverty Guideline or if they receive TANF.

Starting June 1, 2021, federal relief money allowed eligibility to increase to 185% of the Federal Poverty Guideline and adjusted the sliding fee scale to $10 per month for all families. 

Data Source: Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, Early Childhood and Family Support Division

Footnotes: UPDATED - October 2022
NA - Data is not reported if the value is <5 including zero in order to protect participant confidentiality.
DATE - Data represent the state fiscal year (July 1-June 30)
NOTES - County data will not sum to state data, as some children receive services in multiple counties throughout the time frame. State data is the distinct number of children within the state receiving Best Beginnings, where county data is the distinct number of children within that county receiving Best Beginnings.

Definitions: The number of unduplicated children who receive a Best Beginnings Child Care Scholarship.

Best Beginnings offers scholarships to families to help pay for child care from a licensed child care center, licensed group or family child care home, or a Family, Friend, and Neighbor (FFN) child care provider. Families pay a copayment for child care based on a sliding fee scale. A family is eligible for Best Beginnings if they are working and earning less than 150% of the Federal Poverty Guideline or if they receive TANF.

Starting June 1, 2021, federal relief money allowed eligibility to increase to 185% of the Federal Poverty Guideline and adjusted the sliding fee scale to $10 per month for all families. 

Data Source: Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, Early Childhood and Family Support Division

Footnotes: UPDATED - October 2022
NA - Data is not reported if the value is <5 including zero in order to protect participant confidentiality.
DATE - Data represent the state fiscal year (July 1-June 30)
NOTES - County data will not sum to state data, as some children receive services in multiple counties throughout the time frame. State data is the distinct number of children within the state receiving Best Beginnings, where county data is the distinct number of children within that county receiving Best Beginnings.