Stoney Associates

Stoney Associates provides advocates deep support in complex ECE policy.

This support includes revising subsidy policy and rate-setting strategies, crafting linked ECE technology ecosystems that enable real-time data, enabling new ECE business models, launching responsive business coaching initiatives, revisiting licensing and QRIS standards and procedures (including innovative approaches such as micro-centers), modeling early care and education program costs, and more.

Our state allies can call on Stoney Associates to:

Help them explore and develop new approaches to early care and education policy and finance.

This includes consultation with and support for legislative commissions, state policymakers, advocacy groups, philanthropy and others seeking to craft recommendations for effective policy and finance.

Craft linked ECE technology ecosystems.

This includes data systems that enable real-tme data, support compliance with new CCDF rule, strengthen licensing + QRIS compliance, enhance provider compensation and sustainability, improve business coaching and more.

Help them develop early care and education shared services plans and networks for child care centers and homes.

Past experience includes recommendations for staffed family child care networks, child care center networks, automation strategies, and alternative approaches to enabling quality at scale.

Provide TA on revisiting licensing and QRIS standards as well as strategies to enable new ECE business models.

Stoney can help states re-think regulations, finance and policy to enable innovative approaches to expanding child care supply and regulating programs.