What is Child Care Connect (C3)?
Child Care Connect (C3) is Iowa’s integrated solution to understanding real-time child care availability from providers and demand from Iowa families. In the past, data on child care was fragmented across individual systems, which made it difficult to envision the needs of children and families in Iowa. Today, C3 is providing Iowans with near-real-time updates directly from child care providers in convenient and easy-to-access online applications.
Helping Iowans with
Near-Real-Time Updates
By combining child care data into one centralized system, C3 helps:
Families find care when they need it
Child care businesses to fill openings so they can sustain quality care for families
Decision-makers with strategic planning to improve child care statewide by providing trend and opportunity data
Three Interactive Data Tools
C3 integrates data into three useful applications to meet Iowan’s needs.
Together, these integrated solutions improve access to childcare and provide valuable data to Iowa’s families, child care providers, and executive leadership.
