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The New Mexico Early Childhood Education and Care Department (ECECD) will continue with an alternative methodology approach to inform state child care subsidy rates. New Mexico was the first state to move to this cost based alternative methodology in 2021. Part of this approach includes a survey, administered by Prenatal to Five Fiscal Strategies (P5FS), that will support the updating of New Mexico’s cost estimation tool. The survey is for individuals, organizations, and programs that provide child care services to children from birth through twelve years in New Mexico. Because most of the survey questions ask about the costs incurred providing care to children, the best people to complete this survey are the following:
- An executive director, program director, or financial director of a child care center
- An executive director, program director, or financial director of a preschool program
- An owner of a family child care home
- A family member, friend, or neighbor who provides care to their relatives and/or other children but who is not licensed
For those who run a child care business, you may want to gather your expense statements and/or budget (if you have one) to help answer the questions (for example, it may be helpful to have your Schedule C IRS tax form nearby for reference). For those who are not licensed and provide care to family members, friends, and/or neighbors, we ask that you just do your best to estimate any costs you are asked to provide.
All other information will be kept completely confidential and only the P5FS team will be able to see your individual responses. Your data will be combined with data from other child care programs and only the combined data will be shared in summary form and cannot be linked back to you or your program.
The survey should take 15-20 minutes to complete if you have your financial information and child enrollment data nearby. The survey lets you save and continue your responses later by entering your email when requested. You will be sent a unique link back to your survey progress up to that point. If you have any questions about this survey or need any additional support, please do not hesitate to reach out to:
newmexico@prenatal5fiscal.org or call (217) 469-5250 and someone from our team will return your call.